[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, Presto, planning, TDSB, Ontario Place

[rfmcdonald]

• The TTC promises to relieve overcrowding on its subways and buses, but isn't going to actually spend enough money to trigger significant change for a couple of years. CBC reports.


• Ben Spurr reports on the frankly embarrassing failure of the TTC--Metrolinx, anyone--to have any sort of technological infrastructure capable of checking up on the Presto cards and the gates they use.


• Edward Keenan takes issue, rightfully, with the failure of city planners in Toronto to plan ahead for crises, counting on the false security of assuming things will go on as they have gone in the past, over at the Toronto Star.


• The Toronto District School Board is considering allowing school trips to the United States in the era of Trump. The Globe and Mail reports.


• Shawn Micallef raves about the power of light on a winter night, taking an extended look at Ontario Place's Winter Light Exhibition. I must get down there. The Toronto Star has it.