[URBAN NOTE] Six Toronto links: transit, Union Centre, real estate, police

[rfmcdonald]

• Sean Marshall reports on the long history of Toronto in coming up with new transit plans and failing to follow through.


• The failings of the one-stop Scarborough subway extension go back to the concept's very conception. The Toronto Star reports.


• The new plans of the province of Ontario for taking over the TTC are, rightfully, causing alarm at Toronto City Hall. CBC reports.


• blogTO notes the proposal for Union Centre, a new skyscraper in downtown Toronto designed by the Bjarke Ingels Group that will feature a treed roof.


• blogTO notes a new report making it clear that housing affordability has become a major issue for Torontonians, with costs of ownership and rental having reached new highs relative to income.


• Alok Mukherjee makes the point at NOW Toronto that any inquiry into Toronto Police conduct in the McArthur killings has to be part of a general inquiry into how the police conducts itself internally.