Peter Kuitenbrouwer: Toronto’s sexy, shiny new streetcars get a ‘real-world’...
At the streetcar stop at on the south side of Dundas Street West at Lisgar Street Wednesday morning around 9 a.m., a clump of commuters stood in the blizzard, looking none too hopeful. A gentleman...
View ArticleMatt Gurney: I am pleased to announce my own transit plan
It’s tough being a commuter in the Toronto area — sorry, Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area — these days. The roads are congested. The subways are crowded. The buses are falling apart and the streetcars...
View ArticleTTC to kill more than 100 streetcar stops — including 42 Sunday stops
More than 100 streetcar stops around the city are set to be eliminated or relocated in a bid to speed up journeys and improve safety, the board of the Toronto Transit Commission decided at a meeting on...
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Overcrowded streetcars, uninterested drivers part of the rolling horror show...
The National Post today launches a week-long look at Toronto’s troubled streetcars. Deborah Belgrove cheered me up: Bonding with a fellow sufferer beats suffering alone. I met the administrative...
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Streetcarnage: Readers erupt with tales of anguish about riding TTC streetcars
The National Post continues its week-long series on Toronto’s sluggish, over-crowded streetcar network. Send stories to pkuitenbrouwer@nationalpost.com or post to Twitter, #streetcarnage. Danny...
View ArticleStreetcarnage: A TTC streetcar driver's view on the Queen line chaos
Todd (not his real name) has been operating streetcars in Toronto for the last 15 years. He reached out to the National Post after reading the first dispatch in our Street Carnage series. He wanted to...
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Streetcarnage: Fare evasion and aging fleet large part of streetcar problem,...
The National Post continues a series on Toronto’s sluggish and overcrowded streetcars. The TTC loses $20 million in fare evasion each year and one out of five streetcars is currently in the shop, TTC...
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Streetcarnage: ‘Nothing’s off the table’ in fixing streetcar service, new TTC...
Rick Leary stands in a crowd of 50 TTC passengers checking their watches and phones, waiting for a late Queen streetcar during rush hour. But Mr. Leary’s not a typical Torontonian doing the dreaded...
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Streetcars nothing but outdated technology kept alive by political forces
The Nati0nal Post concludes its weeklong series on Toronto’s sluggish and overcrowded streetcars. Comment If you want to know the trouble with Toronto Transit’s streetcars, here it is in a nutshell...
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Graphic: Toronto's streetcar blues
The horse-drawn streetcar arrived in Toronto in 1861. Today the city has 11 streetcar lines on 82 kilometres of track. Unfortunately, the average speed, 17 km/h, has not much improved in 153 years....
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Streetcars are not the problem, too much automobile traffic is
Comment Toronto’s streetcars form part of our fabric. They lend glamour to our flat, modern, grid-based city. Naming Toronto No. 1 on its list of Top 10 trolley rides, National Geographic magazine...
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Ugly, loud and dangerous: Streetcars a symbol of everything wrong with Toronto
Comment VANCOUVER — Even in the age of Rob Ford, I can find no greater symbol of everything wrong with Toronto than its streetcars. Toronto’s streetcars are ugly, loud, their tracks claim an annual...
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Rob Ford’s question to TTC boss Andy Byford about city’s new streetcars:...
Mayor Rob Ford has made no secret of his disdain for streetcars and two weeks ago he took his crusade right to the top, asking TTC boss Andy Byford if he couldn’t just sell the new low-floor models...
View ArticleTTC boss Andy Byford seeking to implement proof of payment system on all...
In an attempt to reduce commute times, Toronto’s transit boss is hoping to implement a proof of payment system for streetcars years ahead of schedule, with all-doors boarding set to be in place by...
View ArticleIt's not ‘Spadeena’: Pronunciation lessons up next for TTC's shiny, new...
The new low-floor streetcars that the Toronto Transit Commission has begun to operate in the right-of-way on Spadina Avenue are shiny and new and red, and you can even pay your fare in a red box on the...
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New home for TTC streetcars gets push to the finish by Montreal-based...
Shortly before noon one recent morning, a kind of parade crawls through a construction site southeast of Leslie Street and Lake Shore Boulevard. Leading the procession is a red Apache flatbed truck,...
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Massive $500M facility for new TTC streetcars might sit nearly empty when it...
TORONTO — When Toronto’s half-a-billion-dollar barn for its fleet of new streetcars opens this spring or summer, it might be practically empty. The mammoth facility at the corner of Leslie Street and...
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Chris Selley: Time for Torontonians and their governments to get serious...
If the Great Pyramid of Giza had come in three inches taller than its intended height, its reputed architect, Hemon, might reasonably have petitioned pharaoh for mercy. None is owed the contractor who...
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Chris Selley: TTC votes to shake fist at Bombardier over streetcar delays
Comment The TTC board voted unanimously on Wednesday, in essence, to shake its collective fist at Bombardier in hopes of scaring some new streetcars out of its dysfunctional plant in Thunder Bay. There...
View ArticleBombardier bailout would be ‘slap in the face’ for Toronto because of...
TTC Chair Josh Colle tried a new tactic in the city’s epic streetcar battle with Bombardier on Wednesday, linking stunning delays on the 204-car order to the prospect of a federal bailout for...
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