In the news: Thursday, July 12, 2012



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

Greater Toronto Area
  • 680 All News Radio post, “Marathon council meeting to continue at City Hall, Thursday”, here.
  • BlogTO post, “This is what an urban headache looks like”, here.
  • BlogTO post, “A TTC etiquette guide, vintage edition”, here.
  • CBC News Toronto report, “OneCity transit plan goes out with a whimper”, here.
  • Citytv News Toronto report, “Council votes to consider transit expansion in Toronto’s ‘official plan’”, here.
  • CP24 report, “Last city council debate focused on transit”, here.
  • CTV News Toronto report, “Council transit debate to continue in the fall”, here.
  • Global News Toronto report, “Toronto’s ‘OneCity’ transit plan flops in front of city council”, here.
  • Globe and Mail article, “Council derails Stintz subway plan”, here.
  • InsideToronto.com article, “Replacing Scarborough RT with subway redundant: council”, here.
  • Metro Toronto’s Ford for Toronto post, “The OneCity transit plan: What the hell happened?”, here.
  • National Post article, “Karen Stintz’s OneCity transit plan ‘goes down in flames’”, here.
  • Newstalk 1010 report, “Video: One City Turns Into Transit Game Plan”, here.
  • Newstalk 1010 report, “How Will Construction Of Eglinton LRT Affect You?”, here.
  • NOW article, “OneCity goes out with a whimper”, here.
  • OpenFile Toronto post, “OneCity dead (for now): council votes not to consider Danforth subway extension to Sheppard”, here.
  • OpenFile Toronto post, “TTC explains the construction disruption on Queen Street in YouTube form”, here.
  • OpenFile Toronto post, “TO staff told Rob Ford his plan to build Scarborough subway couldn’t work”, here.
  • Talk Radio AM640 report, “Council Scraps One City”, here.
  • Torontoist post, “Liveblog: Debating OneCity and the Future of Transit in Toronto”, here.
  • Torontoist post, “A Guide to the OneCity Transit Debate”, here.
  • Toronto Star article, “OneCity: Toronto council buries TTC chair Karen Stintz’s transit plan”, here.
  • Toronto Star article, “Toronto Transit Commmission riders fed up with transit tug-of-war”, here.
  • Toronto Star article, “TTC introduces daily scorecard to measure reliability”, here.
  • Toronto Star article, “TTC chief Andy Byford seeks new chief of staff”, here.
  • Toronto Sun article, “Council derails OneCity transit plan”, here.
  • Toronto Sun column, “No council leadership on transit file”, here.
Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe