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. And, in the words of Chief Marketing Office Alice Smith, who gave the TTC's presentation of the new website,......

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 has launched a sneak peek at a beta version of the new design. We're still kicking the tires and......

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 Giambrone told Torontoist that the website would launch sometime in the fall, and would definitely feature everyone's top request––a......

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 user input our challenge generated and the media firestorm that followed it suggest the RFP [Request For Proposal] be......

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 of the ideas that we received to heart. Now, it's time to move forward. The Editors and Publishers of......

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 listening to Toronto bloggers' input on how to improve it. We and our readers are, after all, relatively tech-savvy......