London's transport museum, located smack dab in Covent Garden in central London, reopened last Thursday after a two-year, $44 million redesign. This weekend saw lineups (queues?) of two hours long, filled with people who weren't just your stereotypical transit aficionados––those nervous-looking sweaty men who curl up in bed reading train timetables from the summer of 1973––but rather families, young couples on dates, professional types, and tourists. If you can't make it to London, you......

Can a transit system foster love for a city? Torontonians may scoff, but Londoners will nod. The underground—better known as the Tube—is often cited as a reason why so many Londoners take pride in their city. One trait of the Tube—and possibly something that Toronto can learn from—is the way in which stations are named after the city’s neighbourhoods and landmarks. A journey where you board at Notting Hill, travel past Marble Arch and St.......

Toronto is a city of non-stop construction, which means non-stop trucks and trailers. We are also increasingly a city of cyclists, and sometimes the combination of these trucks and bikes can be deadly. Large trucking vehicles and school buses have a huge open space in front of their real wheels, and their raised chassis can easily cause a cyclist or pedestrian to be snagged and crushed beneath. A regional Toronto Coroner's report from 1998......

The fine for street racing is now $10,000. There goes my weekend. A man was discovered stabbed to death at 1:30 a.m. this morning on an empty subway car at Kennedy Station. The station was closed for investigation for most of the morning rush hour, and details are limited at this point. We'll keep you posted. Pro-Tip #6834: Don't describe a women's college basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" if you value your job at......

If it's an election year it must be time to discuss the future of Toronto City Centre Airport. But you can't do that unless someone wants to build a bridge or, say, start a new airline to fly out of there - enter Porter Airlines. If you didn't catch the extensive article in The Star on the weekend, here's the deal: The commuter airline, set to start flying between here and Ottawa when they......

Torontoist knows how crazy rent can be in this city. It's gotten so bad that Toronto is slowly creeping up and catching up with New York City for cost of office space. (It now costs $50.47 US per square foot a year to maintain an office in Toronto, up from $37.71 last July, 9% behind New York) It's pretty tough, and quite expensive to live here. But imagine having to pay almost $11,000 per......

Everyone goes wall-to-wall covering this weekend's arrest of 17 men on terrorism charges. The Globe plasters the fact that the alleged bombers targetted the Peace Tower in Ottawa. One of the other potential targets was the CN Tower and the Sun and CP points out that it would've been hard to topple the CN Tower. The TTC wasn't a target but the Transport minister assures us that we're all safe. More facts are also coming......

Mayor Miller wants a citizen panel to review a proposed 8.9% pay raise. Currently Toronto City Councillors make significantly less than other southern Ontario city councillors. That being said, good luck with getting that raise during an election year. The Loonie hit a 28-year high probably because we're a major stable oil producer that isn't trying to get a nuclear weapons' program. Our dollar hit, are you sitting down, 91 cents to the US dollar.......

Transport Minister Jean Lapierre tells Mr. Burns and Mr. Dingwall and any other Crown Corporation Chiefs to just lay off the Twix bars and everything will be okay.......

The City of Toronto has decided that "Segways cannot be operated legally on Toronto streets or sidewalks." They also face limited usability in city parks, and the Ministry of Transport won't give them license plates, so you can't take them on most roads. Where does that leave a Segway driver to take his new toy out for a spin? Just about nowhere. Phew. Naturally, Segway of Ontario is unimpressed with the rulings. But, as......

According to an amazing little story buried in the back of R.O.B., Canada's airline pillows are safe! While American Airlines has cost cut its pillows out of the picture, Air Canada promises its pillows won't be stuffed to the wayside. And a McGill prof chimes in that this is one small comfort left in an increasingly harsh world. Which makes TOist wonder if we're all on the same page here. Those lumpy, papery pillows that......

Torontoist doesn't partake of enough wacky pastimes. This picture, of a Clusterballooner, makes our complete lack of an adventure gene painfully clear. Yesterday was one of the clearest days we'd seen in a while, a day so crisp you could even see the ugly bank logos gleaming atop their respective towers. In short, a perfect day for clusterballooning. Speaking of clusterballooning, the first balloon artist to come up with the idea of tying four decorative......

Longtemps, Montréal et Toronto ont été des villes rivales sur plusieurs plans. Le métro de Montréal versus le Subway en est un exemple. Dans les lignes qui suivront, Torontoist tentera de voir sommairement les pours et les contres de ces deux moyens de transports rivaux. D’une part, le Subway de Toronto, et plus particulièrement la ligne de Yonge, a été le tout premier construit au Canada. En effet, de 1949 à 1954, la ville de......