Advocates are raising concerns that a web of restricted speed zones across Toronto’s transit network is making slow subways the city’s “new normal” as the rail system shows its age.
The TTC has introduced restricted speed zones for trains in places where “certain defects have been documented” in order to reduce the wear and tear suffered by older portions of the track.
There will come a day when no one will be left who can recall when TO wasn’t a shithole.
Fossil fuel ads on the TTC will now face pre-screening
Some fossil fuel advocate advertising will now be pre-screened by TTC staff before it runs on vehicles, as the transit agency takes steps to ensure the groups are making factual claims in their messages to the public.
The TTC board directed staff to review all future advertising from a pair of fossil fuel advocates to confirm the claims they’re making have been independently verified. The board has also asked staff to propose changes to current policies that would allow the city to decline fossil fuel ads if they don’t align with Toronto’s own climate change policy, TransformTO.
The TTC is in dire financial straits so it makes sense to strangle ad revenue on the say so of a few fear mongering ideologues.
Majority of residents in 4 Canadian cites believe their mayor and council are out of touch: CityNews poll
The majority of residents in Toronto, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver all believe their mayor and city council are out of touch with what residents want, according to a new CityNews poll.
The survey, conducted by Maru Public Opinion for CityNews, found on an individual city basis, 74 per cent of those living in Calgary felt their mayor and council were out of touch, followed by Edmonton at 72 per cent, Vancouver at 70 per cent while 61 per cent of those in Toronto agreed.
City goes even more woke: Replaces ‘female’ and ‘male’ on registration forms
Forget being female or male, as far as the City of Toronto concerned.
You will now be considered “cis female” and “cis male.”
A request was submitted to the city during a meeting for Toronto’s Parks, Forestry and Recreation Registration and Booking Transformation (RBT) Project.
Taking aim at bike lanes, Premier Doug Ford’s government is planning to introduce legislation next month that would limit the construction of new ones by overriding municipal powers in a controversial effort to ease gridlock.
The measure is one of several, including 24-7 construction for new highway projects like the 413 from Milton to Highway 400, in the proposed “Reducing Gridlock and Saving You Time Act,” sources told the Star on Friday.
I’m sure Chairman Chow will have something to say , she hates that people own cars and other nice things.
City staff are trying to unravel the mystery of the missing hardware.
At least 18 bronze commemorative plaques — worth thousands of dollars each — have vanished from bridges and parks in the midtown core, according to a count by CBC Toronto.
Staff are reluctant to speculate about what may have happened to them.
What a city. You can feel the decay.
The Ontario government is considering bringing forward legislation that could prohibit the installation of bike lanes when lanes for motor vehicles are removed as a result, sources say.
CBC News has obtained internal government draft documents indicating such a proposal has been under consideration, which several sources with knowledge of the proposed bill confirmed. It is not, however, clear if the measure has been formally brought before cabinet.
The provincial government declined to comment to CBC News on the measures outlined in the documents.
Nothing ever gets better in Toronto anymore.
Toronto drivers caught blocking intersections across the city will now face significantly steeper fines, Mayor Olivia Chow announced Monday.
At a news conference near King Street and University Avenue, Chow and Deputy Mayor Jennifer McKelvie confirmed that the province approved a request to up the fines for this infraction, which Chow said “infuriates” other motorists.
“These drivers that blindly rush out into the middle of the intersection, even when they didn’t have room in front of them to get through… the light changes and everyone is stuck,” she said.
She is still frighteningly clueless.
Even now, even after watching and rewatching the horrific video of her part in the senseless swarming attack on Kenneth Lee, where she’s enthusiastically hitting, punching and stomping on the vulnerable man — practically doing everything but actually delivering the fatal knife wound — the pig-tailed teen still has no remorse.
Monsters walk among us.
Fight between Road Test applicant & Drive Test Examiner in Downsview Toronto . Examiner failed the applicant & fight erupts.
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Cars driving on sidewalks, mirrors demolished with karate kicks, fully grown adults rolling around a freeway like wrestlers.
These are just a few examples, caught on camera, of how some Toronto drivers choose to respond to the city’s notoriously bad congestion, which has been called a crisis and some of the worst in North America.
Anyone who has been behind the wheel of a car in Toronto knows it can be frustrating, but its impact on road rage is up for debate.
In the cause of maintaining public order, we give police officers extraordinary powers. We authorize them to make arrests, carry firearms and use force when necessary. In exchange, we ask them to exercise those powers with restraint, probity and, above all, impartiality, treating everyone the same and doing no one special favours.
That is what makes the case of Stacy Clarke so troubling.
A turf war has fueled a 50% rise in Toronto shootings, mostly with guns smuggled from the U.S.
TORONTO—Towing cars has become a deadly business in Canada’s largest city.
Rival gangs control parts of the tow-truck industry here, using the heavy-duty vehicles to transport drugs, extort car-crash victims with high fees, and fake automobile accidents to defraud insurance. They once resolved their territorial differences with their fists, but now a wave of gun smuggling from the U.S. has turned their fights into a lethal blood sport.
This year through late August, Toronto shootings are up 50% compared with the same period last year and homicides are up 20%—a surge caused in part by “the tow-truck violence,” said Inspector Paul Krawczyk of the Toronto Police Service’s guns-and-gangs unit. In all, about one in seven of Toronto’s shootings and dischargings of firearms this year have been related to the towing industry, police said.
“It’s pretty brazen,” Krawczyk said.
There are some Toronto questions that appear unanswerable. They appear designed for frustrating contemplation rather than any real-world application. Kind of like the “sound of one hand clapping” in Zen meditation.
For instance, the question ”When will the Eglinton Crosstown open?” is a puzzle that has stumped the experts working on it for years, and one that the provincial government has dictated no one in charge should even publicly guess at the answer to. The Crosstown is in a perpetual state of becoming. Anticipating its conclusion is no path to enlightenment.
He internalized the