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

Greater Toronto Area

• Citytv News Toronto report, “TTC to offer free New Year’s Eve service”, here.
• Globe and Mail article, “Metrolinx in A-G’s sights for cost overruns”, here.
• InsideToronto.com article, “Auditor’s critical of Metrolinx for high costs on Presto, Union Station”, here.
• National Post article, “Presto card will cost $700-million to implement, says Ontario’s Auditor General”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “So I printed these last night and handed them out at Oshawa GO”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “How I feel after a fight with a smoker on a GO train platform”, here.
• Ride This Crazy Train post, “The hills are alive with assholes”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “TTC Service Changes for January 2013”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Metrolinx and and the Auditor General (Updated)”, here.
• Steve Munro’s post, “Metrolinx Announces Design Changes and Public Meetings on Eglinton LRT (Updated)”, here.
• The Grid’s The Keenan Wire post, “The Gardiner: crumbling amid a web of lies”, here.
• Torontoist post, “Ontario’s Auditor General Thinks the Union Pearson Air-Rail Link May Be a Money-Loser”, here.
• Torontoist post, “Public Works: Discounting the TTC”, here.
• Torontoist post, “Extra, Extra: Dufferin Station tiles…”, here.
• Torontoist post, “Extra, Extra: Simulated Subways…”, here.
• Toronto Life’s Daily Informer post, “How the crumbling Gardiner became a symbol of all that’s wrong with Toronto”, here.
• Toronto Standard post, “A New Game Let’s You Drive a TTC Train!”, here.
• Toronto Star article, “Auditor general says Presto smart card costs have ballooned to $700 million”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “TTC stands by Presto, despite scathing auditor general report”, here.
• Toronto Sun column, “Presto yet another Liberal boondoggle gone wild”, here.
• Toronto Sun article, “Presto card making taxpayers’ money disappear”, here.
• Toronto Sun report, “Ontario auditor general report highlights”, here.

Elsewhere in the Greater Golden Horseshoe

• Cambridge Times article, “‘Flexibility’ key to bus route needs”, here.
• Cambridge Times article, “Fare parity for MobilityPlus”, here.
• CBC News Hamilton report, “Hamilton delays making blind and disabled people pay for transit”, here.
• CHCH TV News report, “HSR changes for visually impaired put on hold”, here.
• Guelph Tribune article, “Return of 20-minute bus service in offing”, here.
• Guelph Tribune article, “Buses ready to roll on Upper Wyndham”, here.
• Guelph Tribune article, “Be courteous, Guelph Transit riders”, here.
• Hamilton Spectator article, “Council delays cancelling free transit for the blind”, here.
• Kitchener Post article, “Little hope for overnight transit”, here.
• Kitchener Post article, “Ditch the keys, region tells drivers”, here.
• Kitchener Post article, “City worried LRT, intensification may catch neighbours off guard”, here. (November 22)
• Kitchener Post column, “We need to start shaping parking behaviour now”, here.
• Kitchener Post article, “Downtown parking lot to double in size”, here. (November 22)
• Kitchener Post column, “Students not getting a free ride”, here. (November 22)
• Kitchener Post article, “Public art for GRT centre put on hold”, here. (November 16)
• Kitchener Post article, “Waste not, want not?”, here.