[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, London, maps, Eglinton and Dufferin, Ontario Place

[rfmcdonald]

• The Toronto Star reports on the framework agreement for uploading the TTC to Ontario, noting the three different scenarios imagined.


• Tricia Wood at Spacing warns that the uploading of the TTC might well end badly, as shown by the similar takeover of London mass transit by the British government under Margaret Thatcher.


• blogTO shares an example of the new maps on TTC subways, these usefully showing the streetcar network alongside the subway routes.


• Urban Toronto profiles a proposal for an eight-storey rental unit proposed for Eglinton and Dufferin, taking advantage of location come the Eglinton Crosstown.


• The suggestion of John Michael McGrath that Ontario Place is in need of radical transformation, perhaps more than we might like, does merit some consideration.