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The city is changing the peak-period parking and turning restrictions on some sections of Queen Street east of Parliament St. as well as along Broadview Ave. and Kingston Rd. to help minimize traffic congestion and improve the flow of streetcars ...
Read More »Wellington St. construction begins April 10
Wellington Street, from Church Street to York Street will have lane reductions beginning April 10 until September 2017. Richmond Street or King Street will be alternative routes for westbound cyclists and drivers. The City of Toronto is taking steps to ...
Read More »TTC local calls ATU takeover an ‘invasion’ and asset grab
Toronto transit union taken over by Washington-based union over Canadian Labour Congress vote dispute. The President of the 11,000-member Toronto Transit workers union Local 113 has slammed the Washington-based Amalgamated Transit Union International for its “invasion of Canada and the ...
Read More »TTC union pres. fired after breakaway attempt
Members of Local 113 of the Amalgamated Transit Union moved to restore union democracy following a unilateral attempt by suspended president Bob Kinnear to remove the Local from its 120 year-old union. Kinnear’s secretive effort to split Local 113 away ...
Read More »CRBA agenda hijacked by streetcar problems
A local streetcar crisis overshadowed the agenda at the Corktown Residents’ and Business Association (CRBA) monthly meeting Nov. 1. Partway through the question period, Jason Mednick—a resident of the King/Sumach area (who would not disclose his name to The Bulletin ...
Read More »Downtown Seen July 2016: Launch of TTC’s 514 Cherry
Eric Morse – On a lovely sunny June 18 morning, a plethora of Federal, Provincial and City politicos (Mayor John Tory, MP Julie Dabrusin, MPPs Peter Milczyn and Han Dong, TTC Chair Josh Colle and Waterfront Toronto development officer Meg ...
Read More »Esplanade bus will still run: McConnell
After a call-to-action was circulated in the community to save a TTC bus route along The Esplanade, The Bulletin reached out to Deputy Mayor Pam McConnell for more information. The call-to-action had warned that the TTC was proposing to re-route ...
Read More »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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