At least they didn't block the 401 on a rush hour. Or break into the airport and occupy a runway.

Yes, but *gasp* you'll be forcing them to walk around the system constantly boarding and leaving the buses and trains! All for a measly salary of $25/hour! This is outrageous!

Isn't that what happens now already?

Anyone else notice the announcements and posters in the subway which read "We thank Dalton McGuinty for giving us $$$ to start Transit City"? Why do politicians think they have such big egos? Is there a surprise election coming soon? "Thanks to the guidance of Comrade Stalin, this year's...

http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/630697

So to put it in a nutshell: a) the ridership will not be high enough to justify building the Yonge Line extension and b) the ridership will soar to the point Yonge-Bloor station will need to be rebuilt. Which is it?

Part of me wish we could be like the Chinese in terms of building transit infrastructure: the planners draw a line on the map, make the necessary expropriations (hopefully with thoughtfulness) while engineers draw the designs and then the state-owned construction companies and their state-owned...

I'll bet $1000 that if in 1954, Metro Toronto extended into what is now Highway 7, the two subway extensions being proposed will have already been built at least 10 years ago. When will people understand that no one gives a damn about municipal boundaries? This is not Berlin in the Cold War...

You-know-who needs to placate his zealot base who believes AIDS research is evil because AIDS is God's way to punish homosexuals.

Or perhaps the map of Canada can be redrawn into regions with a dominant city. All of Southern Ontario is sawed off into a new province with Toronto as its capital. PEI, NS, NB are combined into a new province with Halifax as capital. Alberta is split in two provinces, with Calgary and...

What? It's simply not possible to widen the radius of the streetcar tracks without demolishing entire buildings in the downtown core. There's also no need to abolish loops, because most streetcar systems in Germany/Austria are still thriving with single-ended vehicles. Transit City vehicles can...

The only way citizenship can be revoked is if the person obtained it dishonestly, and it should stay that way. A government being able to "revoke" someone's citizenship smacks of a South American banana republic ruled by military uniform-wearing colonels. Besides, the lady you mentioned is...

Line 6 of the Vienna U-Bahn is run with LRT stock even though it's completely grade separated because of a legacy issue. It is still considered U-Bahn though. I think the TTC should cease using the word "subway", because it gives the impression that if the trains are not underground, they are...

Just a minor quibble, but shouldn't the above renders include the overhead wires when they e...v...e...n...t...u...a...l...l...y... electrify the line? We can't have the local residents complaining about how Metrolinx deceived them into accepting the ugly and hideous overhead wires which devalue...

In other news, a survey has found the sky to contain high amounts of blueness.

Sorry guys, I need somewhere to rant. But it's quite serious stuff. Right now I live in North York by the Peanut. An hour ago I was taking the subway home from downtown. This required taking the Yonge and then Sheppard subways to Don Mills, and then the 25 bus north. For no apparent reason...

Ideally I'd love to see a Schengen-like arrangement regarding the border, but until the US improves its own standards this understandably cannot happen.

^^ Isn't that dangling free money in front of fraudsters? What could possibly go wrong?

I heard of horror stories of cheap Chinatown tour operators who prey on the ignorant and offer trips to London and Paris for $200...of course it's London and Paris in Ontario, not the majestic metropolises we know and love.