[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: The Discourse, Scarborough RT, Christie subway, TTC, raccoons

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• The Discourse introduces its new Scarborough newsletter, written by Aparita Bhandari, here.


• Chris Penrose shares at Spacing a photo essay, walking the length of the Scarborough RT network.


• Transit Toronto revisits an interesting episode in Toronto transit history, the three weeks in 1960 when the TTC was planning for a subway line running south from Christie.


• blogTO shares nine decades' worth of photos and video of different models of TTC vehicles.


• Leyland Cecco at Guardian Cities writes about the strong position of the raccoon in the culture of Toronto.