Every year, Heritage Toronto works with local photographers to create Building Storeys, a visual documentation and anecdotal exhibit of our city’s heritage sites. This year’s exhibit—which is on view at the Steam Whistle Roundhouse throughout the month of May—is dedicated to rail and marine transportation. Over the month, Torontoist and Heritage Toronto are exploring the [...]

Every year, Heritage Toronto works with local photographers to create Building Storeys, a visual documentation and anecdotal exhibit of our city’s heritage sites. This year’s exhibit—which is on view at the Steam Whistle Roundhouse throughout the month of May—is dedicated to rail and marine transportation. Over the month, Torontoist and Heritage Toronto are exploring the [...]

BREAKING: CITY COUNCIL APPROVES LIGHT RAIL FOR SHEPPARD BY A VOTE OF 24-19 THE OPTIONS GREEN: Rob Ford’s full subway 8 kilometres, 7 stations Requires additional $1.7–$2.7 billion in funding PURPLE: Expert panel’s light rail 13 kilometres, 25 stations Requires no additional funding BLUE: Hybrid light rail/subway (On map darker blue=subway, lighter blue = LRT) [...]

Rob Ford’s latest failure to trump the band of city councillors refusing to acquiesce in matters of transit means (more) humiliation for both the mayor and his brother, Councillor Doug Ford (Ward 2, Etobicoke North). While many councillors have long taken the grin-and-bear-it approach to the blunders and general outrageousness that come out of Doug’s [...]

“This is going to be a heated meeting,” an audience member confided to us before last night’s transit town hall meeting began at the North Toronto Memorial Community Centre. That prediction was prompted by an angry woman at the opposite end of our row, who bemoaned the number of business bankruptcies tied to the construction [...]

This morning, the last of the TTC’s oldest subway cars, a series known to transit folks and to the fans as “H4,” made their last trip. Riders on the Bloor-Danforth line will remember them as the only cars that still had padded seats, and the best hope for “air conditioning” were the ceiling fans that [...]

The history, design, and development of building projects, brought to you by Urban Toronto. An information centre has opened at the east end of York University’s York Lanes very close to where a new subway station will open in four years’ time. The TTC’s storefront unit includes scale models and renderings, has lots of printed [...]

Rob Ford met with Dalton McGuinty this morning, and in the process blew most of his own governing ethos out of the water.

The Toronto Sun is reporting that the first of the new rocket subway trains will be online for regular passenger service starting this Thursday at 10 a.m. It will depart from Downsview station, and at launch it will be the one train that is in service, with additional trains added into service later. We got a preview of the trains back in May—if you want to get a sense of what's in store for your commute, check out our full sensory exploration of Toronto's new subways.