Using the census data released earlier this week, Ben Spurr writes in the Toronto Star about how the Scarborough neighbourhoods that will get the subway extension have actually been seeing falling populations in the context of strong growth in Toronto generally. Where will the ridership come from?

The population is shrinking in more than a dozen ( Read more... )

The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr describes how the Toronto York Spadina Subway Extension is set to finish in mere months. I, for one, will be excited to see, and ride, this extension of the subway. New stations!

Toronto’s first new subway project in more than a decade is almost complete ( Read more... )

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The Toronto Star's Ben Spurr lets his readers know the latest development in mass transit in Scarborough, something that frankly sounds quite a lot like a joke at this point. Will anyone ever decide on anything?

A highly anticipated report on the Scarborough subway extension has been delayed for a second time, a development that could add to the ( Read more... )

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blogTO's Derek Flack takes a look at some hidden spaces on the TTC network, starting with infamous Lower Bay station.

Lower Bay Station (or, as the TTC refers to it, Bay Lower) is surely the best known of Toronto's hidden underground spaces. The ghost subway station was in service briefly in 1966 when the TTC tried its interlining system, which ( Read more... )

Unicorn Booty associate editor Alexander Kacala has a nice interview with the real-life gay couples whose image was used in a mural in a station in New York City's new Second Avenue subway.

After taking nearly a century to build, the Second Avenue subway extension in Manhattan opened on Sunday with lots of pomp and circumstance. Three new stations ( Read more... )

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The Toronto Star carries Jake Pearson's Associated Press article noting how New York City's Second Avenue subway line is nearing a deadline. Will it meet it? We'll see.

New Yorkers have become accustomed to waiting on the subway. But nearly 45 years ( Read more... )

The story told by the Inter Press Service's Mario Osava, describing how the Ecuadorian capital of Quito will be transformed through gentrification following subway construction, sounds sadly familiar.

Success can kill, when it comes to cities. Spain’s Barcelona is facing problems due to the number of tourists that it attracts. And the historic ( Read more... )