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

Greater Toronto Area

• 680 All News Radio report, “TTC hopes to provide cell service on subway platforms by 2014”, here.
• All Fired Up In The Big Smoke post, “Furiously Fast And Loose”, here.
• Canadian Press article (from the CTV News Toronto website), “”Pedestrian dies after being struck by GO Train”, here.
• CBC News Toronto report, “Mayor Ford open to prioritizing downtown relief line”, here.
• Globe and Mail column, “Andy Byford gives TTC energy it desperately needed”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Downtown relief line seen as TTC’s priority”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Video: Private-funding, wifi and global transit systems: TTC CEO answers readers’ questions”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “No more maroon? TTC set to ditch iconic uniforms”, here.
• National Post article, “Subways coming to Toronto ‘one way or another’: Mayor Rob Ford open to the idea of a downtown relief line”, here.
• Newstalk 1010 report, “Vote to Have Cellphone Service on Subway Platforms”, here.
• Newstalk 1010 report: “UPDATE: Pedestrian Killed by a Go Train in Mississauga”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Bad GO, bad GO, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when the whiny, illegally-parked, self-entitled whiners come for youuuuuuuuuu?”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Better keep your Presto Card in a glass case and wrapped in velvet…”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “Mega Donkey”, here.
• Oshawa Express article, “Regional budget guidelines scrutinized”, here.
• Spacing Toronto post, “Ontario NDP have missed the train”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Spadina Extension Opening Pushed Back to Late 2016”, here.
• Steve Munro post, “TTC Rediscovers the Downtown Relief Line (Update 4)”, here.
• Steve Munro post, “McCaul Street Construction (Updated October 21, 2012)”, here.
• Talk Radio AM640 report, “Transit group wants 1% sales tax to fund subways”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “TTC’s Spadina subway extension to open a year late”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “TTC ready to let subway riders talk and text”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Scarborough subway line may have to wait: Toronto Mayor Rob Ford”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Ford pushes subways”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Spadina subway extension delayed”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Top pay for building The Better Way”, here.

Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe

• Hamilton Spectator commentary, “Do we even care about Hamilton LRT?”, here.
• MyKawartha.com article, “[Peterborough County] Rural transit to launch in spring”, here.