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4414 being delivered today ... here's the requisite PCC image to go with it.

Ad space! Ad space! Ad space! Art doesn't pay rent to the media company. Sadly it's all driven by the need to plaster wrap ads all over the walls and the electronic ad screens.

Uber cannot pick up at the airport but you can take it there.

Everyone will just call it VMC.

You could have one panel with tiles in good condition properly framed to clean up the edges where the new tiles are and then just leave it as is. I wouldn't leave them all exposed, most of them have a lot of damage and glass shards from the vitrolite are very sharp. I noticed that at King where...

Dundas was worse originally because they fitted the station with really pink warm white fluorescent lights which altered the colour of the tiles. Changing the lights to the normal white light helped a bit. Wellesley is green. The original station architecture is overwhelmed by that garage...

So much so that former TTC Chair Julian Porter was quoted in the paper as saying he didn't drink the night before he had to go to Dundas Station.

You too eh? I cleaned off one of the smaller sections on the northbound side. They still gleam like new, except where they're fractured. I mentioned to an older gentleman standing nearby that those were the original tiles and he actually remembered the station being all green-blue (I forget the...

2014 ridership in Oakville topped out just over 3 million, up from less than 2.5 million in 2009. Not bad for a system that didn't even have Sunday service about 10 years ago. Oakville population is about 185,000 give or take. Service was reorganized into a grid system in 2009 which has helped...

TTC training duration increased significantly in the shadow of the Russell Hill subway crash and possibly some other incidents. It used to be very short, for some vehicles only three days, with only two behind the actual controls and then you were expected to be out there operating. I think the...

I have a feeling that his death would be akin to the passing of Sir Winston Churchill. The accolades, the tributes, the canonization, and all the tears at the passing of a great man .... there will be nary a mention of crack, association with gangsters, spousal abuse, racist rants, drug-induced...

Here we go again...

Yes, they had to remember how to start the big snow-melter machines, since they hadn't been used in several years. We had gone through a few winters with very little snow. Despite all the joking, it was a smart move. Most side streets in the old city were no more than two tire tracks in the snow...

He must be really feeling it this time. The bravado, taking "Constichewent Calls" on his sick bed, the affected gravelly voice and calling Warmington aren't happening. Rob must be realizing that this time it's for real and it's serious.

Maybe we shoulda ordered the hollow steel boxes with 200 feet of air hose and 3 wires. We'd probably have them by now and they'd run just as well! The KISS principle and all.

Because no other systems have delays, do everything perfectly and everything rolls out on the exact day that they first said so.

They might as well have added achieving world peace to that list. As diminutive noted, many of these observations apply to the whole GTHA region. This isn't going to be easily solved with policy recommendations like the ones above. Short of making a lifestyle choice and moving right out of the...

I know technology and manufacturing has changed and all that, but this same factory somehow managed to send us 100 Peter Witt cars in 30 days back in 1921. And that was with a lot of manual construction work.

OT but VIA Rail is similar. Papers always show it as "Via Rail". So will Rob make an appearance today?

The disruption would be about the same as for a subway tunnel. Do you remember Bay St. being closed from Front to Queens Quay for most of 1988-1989? If you went with a bored tunnel it would probably be a fair bit deeper than the 509 tunnel. For it to be shallow like the Bay St. tunnel it would...