[URBAN NOTE] Nine Toronto links

[rfmcdonald]

• Metrolinx using paid influencers to promote the Ontario Line is certainly a choice. The Toronto Star reports.


• Union Station retiring an old mechanical system 90 years old used to control TTC vehicles is a landmark event. The Metrolinx blog reports.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the birth of the Gardiner Expressway, here.


• Alok Mukherjee at Spacing questions why police in Toronto have stopped enforcing traffic regulations.


• Protesters charged with blocking the Bloor Viaduct during the Extinction Rebellion have had the charges dropped. Global News reports.


• Sean Marshall shared his account of his address to the Toronto Police Services board, here.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the history behind the mid-20th century expansion of Church Street.


• NOW Toronto notes that workers at the Broadview Hotel have become unionized.


• Samantha Lui writes at NOW Toronto against the false negative stereotypes applied by so many--even briefly by Google--to Scarborough.


• CBC notes that a lawsuit surrounding benefits fraud by TTC employees has been settled, expensively.