The ever-reliable Transit Toronto has just posted a comprehensive list of a number of Ontario transit services' holiday hours. If you have any intention of using any or all of Barrie Transit, Brampton Transit, Burlington Transit, Durham Region Transit, GO Transit, Guelph Transit, Hamilton Street Railway, Milton Transit, Mississauga Transit, Oakville Transit, Orangeville Transit, Region of Peel Transhelp, Toronto Transit Commission, or York Region Transit between today and December 28, the list is an invaluable......

James Bow. Transit Toronto Editor. Blogger. Yonge Street dream-dasher. Fantasy novel writer. Anti–Harry Potter activist. In what may be the best indie literary publicity stunt in some time, Bow will stage a half-serious one-man picket beside the midnight line-up of Potter fans waiting outside Another Story Bookshop (315 Roncesvalles Avenue) this Friday night. The fans, of course, will be there to get their hands on a copy of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the......

Transit Toronto just helpfully reminded us of the TTC's (and pretty every other GTA-based transit systems') updated holiday schedule. The key things to note for TTC riders: extended peak schedule on Friday the 22nd, Sunday schedule on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day (Scarborough riders in particular may want to take note of the change to the SRT's availability on Christmas Eve), Saturday schedule on Boxing Day, and back to regular weekday schedule as of......

Transit enthusiast Miguel Syvap have come up with this dream map of the TTC which includes lines along Eglinton, York and more. Yes, subway expansion at this level is unsustainable and unlikely unless money starts raining from the sky (and even then, we kinda think streetcar expansion makes more sense). Thanks Transit Toronto for the link. Ed. Note: All of us eager TTC aficianados have tanked Mr. Syvap's bandwidth. Fortunately the fine folks at......

It's a weekend of returns. College teachers are going back to the classrooms after three weeks of being on the picket lines. An arbitrator has been brought in to negotiate a settlement between the teachers and their employers. Former hostage James Loney makes a pit stop in Toronto before he heads back to his childhood stomping grounds in Sault. Ste. Marie. The debate about the waterfront starts up again with a piece in the Star......

The saga of the anagram transit maps continues. Sean Lerner, who last week stood in support with blogger RobotJohnny by hosting the TTC Anagram Map on his site and pushing for supporters to mail their complaints to the TTC, received a note from TTC committee chair Howard Moscoe. Transit Toronto has more here. Ladies and Gentleman let's keep this fight clean. The Liberals have decided to hold their leadership convention in December. Toronto-area stalwart Bill......

It's old news now, but just in case you didn't hear, Boing Boing editor and former Torontonian Cory Doctorow is one of three judges for the 2006 Blooker prize. The Lulu Blooker prize is awarded to the best non-fiction, fiction and comic books inspired by a blog (or blog turned into books). The most impressive title on the short list, in Torontoist's humble opinion is Julie Powell's Julie and Julia, the New York secretary that......

Margaret Atwood is signing books, actually she's using her newly developed machine to sign books. It seems that Atwood is sick and tired of doing endless book tours and signing countless books, so she's invented a machine that allows her to remotely sign books. Torontoist sympathizes with Atwood, who is approaching 70, and would find whirlwind publicity tours tiresome after the 30+ books she's done. Frankly, if the invention let's Atwood spend more time writing......

Over on the Transit Toronto forum, a transit fan uncovers an interesting quote from the January 5th, 1950 Toronto Star: "We will keep our stations very high-class, with no cheap advertising posted around or unsightly vending machines. This is our duty because these things don't add to the dignity of the station." - TTC Chairman William C. McBrien......

Things have heated up over at the St. Clair Pro-ROW site, as the anti-transit group SOS (which is an acronym for Destroy Our City) have caught wind of it. Transit guru James Bow, editor of Transit Toronto, is pushing for calm heads and civil debate. What could be the future of Toronto's streetcars will be on display at the Toronto Hummingbird Centre, 1 Front Street East this Monday, October 24th from noon until 5 p.m.......

Earlier this week, York Region launched its new rapid transit service: VIVA. Although a VIVA vehicle looks like a bus, sounds like a bus and even sort of feels like a bus, they’re marketing it as the unbus, to trick car drivers who would otherwise feel shame riding in the common people’s chariot. But they have a good excuse as the VIVA bus service is so much more than the bus service we’re used......

TOist always seems to go up the down staircase when it comes to the TTC. We invariably find ourselves walking towards an exit, only to discover it's nothing but a wall with a door marked TTC Employees Only, behind which sit a group of dogs playing poker. Now we have the TTC rider guide to defend us from such frustration. It's a pocket-size paper fold with mini-maps of each subway station and its respective......