[URBAN NOTE} Seven Toronto links: CNE, 29 Dufferin, Rogers Road, Ontario Line, Green Line, renters
- 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.
Written by Randy McDonald
August 9, 2019 at 11:00 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, History, Photo, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with 161 rogers road, 29 dufferin, cne, dovercourt village, dufferin street, green line, history, hoidays, mass transit, ontario, parks, politics, real estate, renters, rogers road, streetcars, three torontos, toronto, ttc, Urban Note