Results tagged “transport”

       

What might become of our current streetcars when they're replaced by shiny new ones over the next few years? No one knows yet, but they might well dream of seeing out the rest of their days at the Halton County Radial Railway.

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.

The fine for street racing is now $10,000. There goes my weekend.

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.

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)

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.

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 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 the Segway riding Gob would say, come on! It's difficult enough to navigate city sidewalks with speeding grannies on motorized scooters doing their best to play lopsided bumper cars with pedestrians.

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 cramp more than they cradle are at the heart of an industry debate over customer comfort? Plus, airplane pillows have long been victim of a half-true smear campaign to paint them as never-washed, disease-carrying agents. Which, even if utterly false, is enough to deter most people from entrusting airline pillows with their precious necks. All of this to say that WestJet and Jetsgo had the right idea from the get go - No pillows, cheaper flights. If you can't fly without a pillow, bring your own fluffy number.

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.

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.