Tag Archives: transit

Corktown is getting their streetcar back

TTC officials confirmed the 514 Cherry streetcar’s return of full time service of at a community meeting with Corktown and Distillery District residents on June 27. The news was met with dismay by residents living near King and Sumach—but those ...

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Transit summit Jan. 21

TTCriders and friends are hosting a transit summit to build our movements for a world-class public transit system that truly serves Torontonians and is affordable for all. We’d like you to join us. The summit will be held on Jan. 21 ...

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TTC construction updates from Joe Cressy

King-Charlotte-Adelaide The City of Toronto and the TTC will replace the streetcar tracks and complete some sidewalk repairs at the intersections of Charlotte Street with King Street West and Adelaide Street West beginning later this month. Phase 1, from March ...

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Young people dream of ‘walkable’ neighbourhood: Trading suburbs for Downtown

Young people are heading to city centres, abandoning the suburban life of spreading lawns and wide driveways that their parents embraced, according to urban designer Ken Greenberg. Following the Second World War the North American dream was to have a ...

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‘Don’t call me a wheelchair,’ says TTC accessibility participant

Faced on the one hand with an obsolete infrastructure and a civic government that has spent far too many years neglecting needed investment, and on the other with a requirement legislated by the province (Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act) ...

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