Why do these Yorkdale shoppers look happy as they begin their browsing or shopping experience? Perhaps it’s because they took the subway instead of motoring to the mall. Anyone who has driven into the Yorkdale parking lot during the weeks preceding Christmas knows it’s not an experience for the timid. While we suspect it was [...]

Anyone who claims they can eliminate congestion is either deluded or a liar. So contended transit activist Steve Munro Tuesday night, at a public forum on transit hosted by U of T’s Cities Centre. “If we focus on congestion,” he said, “we’re taking a car-oriented approach to building transit, and that’s doomed to failure.” Dr. [...]

You’ve heard all the jokes and Simpsons references related to Doug Ford’s vision of a Toronto monorail, his grandiose derailment of Waterfront Toronto’s development plans. But Ford is not the first Etobicoke-based politician to be mesmerized by the possibilities of single-rail travel. From the 1950s onwards, civic officials from the former township have participated in [...]

Every Saturday morning Historicist looks back at the events, places, and characters—good and bad—that have shaped Toronto into the city we know today. Looking north from the top of the Bank of Commerce Building, 1957. City of Toronto Archives, fonds 1567, series 648, file 7. The best way to get a comprehensive view of the [...]

The TTC installed the first “Next Train Arrival” display at Dundas Station yesterday, with TTC Chair Adam Giambrone unveiling the addition to the OneStop screens. At the southbound platform, the text sat humbly along the bottom of the screen, as if it didn’t dare disturb the advertisements above. While Giambrone fully admitted that the TTC [...]

There’s been much debate in recent days over whether or not the TTC should remodel its crumbling, 50s-era “bathroom tile” subway stations (since now they can). A vocal proponent of the renovation plan has been TTC Commissioner and Councillor Sandra Bussin, who thinks that the common masses aren’t design-savvy enough to hold an opinion of [...]

Every weekday morning, bright and early, we feature a photo (or two) from a photographer in the Torontoist Flickr Pool. It’s our way of giving the many excellent photographers in our pool the attention that they deserve. you read it in a book tonight BY APARATGRAF

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