Greater Toronto and Golden Horseshoe area media report on public transit issues today.

Greater Toronto Area

• BlogTO post, “Metrolinx set to endorse LRT plan for Toronto”, here.
• Bow. James Bow post, “The Fall of the Northlander?”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Toronto light rail plan unanimously approved by Metrolinx”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Passengers slightly injured in TTC collision”, here.
• Citytv News Toronto report, “Metrolinx approves 4 LRT lines for Toronto”, here.
• Citytv News Toronto report, “TTC bus collides with truck on Hwy. 427”, here.
• CP24 report, “Metrolinx expected to give OK to LRT lines”, here.
• CP24 report, “TTC bus crash sends 18 to hospital”, here.
• CTV News Toronto report, “Metrolinx approves construction on Toronto LRTs”, here.
• Financial Post article, “Daimler to shutter Mississauga, Ont. bus plant”, here.
• Globe and Mail column, “It was alive, it was dead and now Metrolinx is back to life, maybe”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Doug Ford vows to keep fighting for subway as Transit City moves forward”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “TTC bus collision sends 12 to hospital with injuries”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Daimler closing Mississauga bus plant”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Downtown Yonge subway line closed April 28 to 29 weekend”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Police seek man in Scarborough RT sexual assault case”, here.
• MetroToronto post, “Ford for Toronto: Enough with the Rob Ford gravy slogans, it’s time to really fix Toronto’s fiscal foundation”, here.
• Mississauga.com article, “Bus company shuts Mississauga plant”, here.
• Mississauga.com article, “CAW blames government for bus plant closure”, here.
• National Post article, “Metrolinx poised to OK four LRT lines”, here.
• National Post article, “Quote of the day: Doug Ford rails against a three-pronged war on the car”, here.
• Newstalk 1010 report, “TTC Bus Involved in Crash on 427”, here.
• NOW article, “Rob Ford’s four-year folly”, here.
• OpenFile Toronto post, “Better late than never: Metrolinx officially reinstates Transit City”, here.
• OpenFile Toronto post, “Forget the TTC and subways: Is the GTA ready to pay for North Ontario’s transit?”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “This Crazy Train’s Presto Chronicles, Chapter 18: Five business days? CSR like it’s 1912”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Only in a first world country”, here.
• Spacing Toronto post, “Straphanger: Vancouverism and smart transit planning”, here.
• Steve Munro post, “Metrolinx Resurrects Transit City”, here.
• Torontoist post, “The Better Way, Around the World”, here.
• Toronto Life’s Daily Informer post, “The 2014 election (or Doug Ford’s election to Queen’s Park) could kill Transit City again”, here.
• Toronto Life’s Daily Informer post, “Metrolinx’s proposed timeline for building LRTs is inconvenient for Rob Ford”, here.
• Toronto Standard post, Notes from U-Bahn: Conversation with a Staphanger”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Metrolinx recommends Sheppard LRT building start in 2014”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Toronto’s centrist councillors meeting to brainstorm priorities”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “City councillor brainstorming session to include road tolls”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Road tolls a bad idea, says Councillor Doug Ford”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Metrolinx on board with light-rail transit”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “TTC bus in crash with tractor-trailer”, here.
• YorkRegion.com editorial, “Don’t put all costs on backs of motorists”, here.

Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe

• Waterloo Region Record article, “Transit corridor will be easily reached by walkers and cyclists, planner says”, here.