6 Comments January 26, 2012 at 4:30 pm

Extra, Extra: Gaffes, Farewells, and General Nausea

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Photo via {a href="https://twitter.com/#!/larrylarry/status/162575971248123907/photo/1"}Laurence Lui's Twitter{/a}.

Metrolinx, the agency tasked with building a regional transit network for the GTA, was relatively agreeable when Rob Ford’s administration asked them to help him scrap the Transit City light rail plan. Could that be what the above cryptic tweet, posted this morning on Metrolinx’s official Twitter feed and then hastily retracted, is getting at?

The TTC’s last H4 subway train (you know, the orange-y one without air conditioning) will be making its final run tomorrow during the morning rush. If you want to ride it one last time, you’ll have to get up early. The train leaves Kennedy Station at about 7:45 a.m., and will only be making one circuit of the Bloor-Danforth line before it officially retires.
And while Toronto loses an old subway train, Kazakhstan gains a whole bunch of shiny new ones. See? Some places can follow through on their transit planning.
From the Grid, the newsweekly that devotes a photo spread to food porn in every issue, comes a dramatic reversal in editorial direction: a cover feature that will make you lose your appetite forever.
And Global has created a detailed map of election results from the 2011 provincial election.