[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto transit links: shutdowns, future maps, ridership, King Street, North Korea

[rfmcdonald]

• Transit Toronto shares a list of planned partial shutdowns for the Toronto subway in 2018, and makes the point this is good: This way, they can much-needed maintenance.


• blogTO shares a future map of Toronto transit links, this one by the TTC highlighting its own dreams and hopes, many of which are planned and even funded already. I like this one.


• Steve Munro at Torontoist considers whether or not the TTC can meet its goal of increased ridership, given (among other things) bottlenecks in service.


• Ben Spurr notes the hope of the TTC that the King Street pilot project can be replicated elsewhere in Toronto, over at the Toronto Star. Queen Street seems one likely corridor for this to me.


• Ben Spurr and Alanna Rizza report that Metrolinx, of all agencies, was apparently recently subjected to a cyberattack from North Korea. The Toronto Star has the report.