Illustration by Roxanne Ignatius/Torontoist. Torontoist and Spacing have learned that the TTC is on the verge of unveiling its new online trip planner to the public, as soon as next week. When Spacing, Torontoist, BlogTO, and the now-defunct Reading Toronto teamed up at the start of 2007 to solicit ideas from readers for what was [...]

At a press conference late this morning at Spadina Station, the TTC rolled out the beginnings of their snappily named “next vehicle arrival notification pilot project” that will eventually see the new street furniture transit shelters outfitted with LED screens, new and old subway stations across the city outfitted with LCD and LED screens, still [...]

Photo of Adam Giambrone at Thursday’s meeting by David Topping. It’s not the better way just yet, but it might be soon. Earlier today, the TTC gave the media a sneak peek at the first beta preview version of its new website, just before unveiling it to the public a few minutes after 3 p.m. [...]

Remaining virtually unchanged for about a decade, nobody would argue that the TTC’s brutal web site wasn’t in need of a total revamp. We even teamed up with Spacing Wire, Reading Toronto, and blogTO to solicit a fantastic amount of useful feedback, which we then forwarded to the Commission with high hopes. Now the TTC [...]

Eight months after Torontoist, Reading Toronto, Spacing, and BlogTO all banded together to solicit reader comments to improve the TTC’s website and after Adam Giambrone agreed to re-open the Request for Proposal (RFP) to allow for “a more ambitious and exciting project,” there has finally been some news to report of late. Last week, Adam [...]

TTC Chair Adam Giambrone has responded to Toronto bloggers’ (that’s us, BlogTO, Reading Toronto, and Spacing) open letter to the TTC about fixing their website. And the news is allll good. Our third and final main suggestion — a crucial one that the entirety of the project pretty much hinged on — was that “the [...]

When Torontoist joined forces with blogTO, Reading Toronto, and Spacing and asked our readers for feedback on the TTC’s website at the beginning of this month, we had absolutely no idea that we would get such an enormous response. We’d like to thank you all again for participating, and we’ve taken each and every one [...]

Adam Giambrone is about to make some new friends…internet friends! Reading Toronto’s Robert Ouellette recently got in touch with the TTC’s new chief about the horrid shape of the TTC’s website (as Ouellette put it, “the single worst information site found anywhere [and] a true embarrassment”) and asked the G-man if he’d be interested in [...]