PRESTO: Your Ticket to Ride

Amelia Bredo If you’ve ever experienced another city’s system of public transportation, your return to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) was likely accompanied by mixed emotions. Toronto’s streetcars, buses, and subways are crucial to the city’s operation, but the TTC falls behind other major cities in several key ways, namely in the use of an…

Trudeau’s New Year’s Resolution: Improve Public Transit

Mohamad Yaghi Road works, traffic jams, and long drives – these are all typical everyday experiences urban commuters in major Canadian cities face. Often, many rightly complain that travel to and from work takes a considerable amount of time out of their day, but, contrary to the popular discourse, there have been substantial improvements to…

URGENT: We Need to Fix the Crack in Our Kitchen Table, Toronto

Caitlin Cassie The dire state of Greater Toronto Area’s transportation situation is well known to most. And while I’m far more interested in seeing actual change be implemented on the ground, or under the ground, than ranting about the critical conditions we are facing, I’m taking this opportunity to re-emphasize the problem (as I think…