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. photo 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 [...]

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.

Click on the map to view a full-size version. Back in March, the TTC indicated that it would entertain proposals to sell naming rights to subway stations and subway lines. It was a small clause buried in a long document outlining the requirements for those seeking to bid on the TTC’s advertising contract, and we [...]

The countdown clock has started and Toronto’s newest Rocket is through testing and ready to enter service. This morning, the TTC welcomed members of the press on board for a test run and technical tour of the new subway trains as they enter the final phase of pre-launch preparations. We were brought on board at [...]

Far be it from us to deny you, our faithful readers, the joys of our new SUBWAYTM system in all its glory. After receiving numerous requests, we now have available for downloading: the complete route map, and all four mock-ups of the stations in the newer, shinier, sponsored Toronto(ist) Transit Commission.   COMPLETE ROUTE MAP [...]

So apparently the TTC is contemplating, or at least willing to entertain proposals for, selling the naming rights to its lines and stations. Now, some boring hippies will probably be all “oh that sucks we’re branding everything and we will forever live in a sea of advertisements.” That is the sort of thing that hippies [...]

Photo of a Basic Funerals ad in Osgoode Station, by Harry Choi/Torontoist. The TTC’s advertising spaces are generally the domain of ads hawking life-improving things, like continuing education, or foreign language lessons—or otherwise things that only seem life-improving while one is consuming them, like Taco Bell. But lately, one company has been using public transit [...]