[URBAN NOTE} Seven Toronto links: CNE, 29 Dufferin, Rogers Road, Ontario Line, Green Line, renters

[rfmcdonald]

• blogTO reports on some new features at this year's iteration of the CNE.


• blogTO notes the terrible overcrowding and other dysfunctions of the 29 Dufferin bus.


• Sean Marshall reports on the last runs of the Rogers Road streetcar, ancestor of the 161 Rogers Road bus.


• Happily, weird pronunciations of "Avenue" are no longer heard on TTC buses. Global News reports.


• Transit Toronto shares the Metrolinx report on the economics of the proposed Ontario Line.


• blogTO reports on the good news that the Green Line park system, trailing south and east of Earlscourt Park, is going to be built.


• This Toronto Life photo essay examining five recently evicted renters is quietly horrifying.