Posts Tagged ‘501 queen’
[PHOTO] Empty 501 Queen streetcar westbound, The Beach
Written by Randy McDonald
March 25, 2020 at 9:00 pm
Tagged with 501 queen, photos, queen street, streetcar, the beaches, toronto, ttc
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: housing, highways, Toronto Zoo, Dufferin Grove Park, 501 Queen
- Jennifer Pagliaro and Emily Mathieu at the Toronto Star look at how 1400 subsidized housing units remain empty despite the housing crisis, and why.
- Does Toronto need another 400-series highway to handle traffic? blogTO considers.
- How can the Toronto Zoo move forward? The Toronto Star examines.
- Dufferin Grove Park is scheduled to face an interesting redevelopment. blogTO reports.
- Steve Munro looks at the factors behind longer travel times on the 501 Queen streetcar.
Written by Randy McDonald
June 26, 2019 at 6:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with 501 queen, dufferin grove park, highways, mass transit, ontario, parks, queen street, real estate, regionalism, streetcar, three torontos, toronto, toronto zoo, ttc, Urban Note
[URBAN NOTE] Ten Toronto links: politics, transit, pop culture, photos
- CBC Toronto bids farewell, fittingly at TCAF time, to the iconic Jason Loo Toronto comic series The Pitiful Human-Lizard.
- At blogTO, Tanya Mok reports on the resistance of tenants at 54-56 Kensington Avenue to an illegal eviction order by their landlord.
- The Toronto Star reports</u. on a new matchmaking event intended to connect future roommates to each other.
- Kevin Ritchie at NOW Toronto reports on how a new pricing scheme for the AGO, including a $35 annual pass for people over 25, reflects a push to try to get more people into museums.
- Glenn Sumi writes at NOW Toronto about the increasingly steep price of ticket prices for live theatre in Toronto.
- Toronto Life shares photos from an exhibit, by Patrick Cummins and Ivaan Kotulsky, of Queen Street West in the 1980s and 1990s.
- Richard Longley writes at NOW Toronto about the emptying of an old warehouse of collectibles and oddities on Wabush, part of the decline of old storied Toronto.
- Toronto Life shares more photos from outdoor market Stackt, at Front and Bathurst.
- Steve Munro starts to analyse traffic patterns on the 501 Queen streetcar, looking first at the Neville Loop end.
- NOW Toronto is one of a few news sources to report on Scarborough writer Téa Mutonji and her new short story collection Shut Up, You’re Pretty.
Written by Randy McDonald
May 12, 2019 at 11:30 am
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Photo, Popular Culture, Science, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with 501 queen, art gallery of ontario, bathurst street, comics, graphic novels, ivaan kotulsky, kensington market, museums, neighbourhoods, patrick cummins, photos, popular culture, popular literature, queen street, queen street west, real estate, streetcars, téa mutonji, theatre, three torontos, toronto, ttc, Urban Note
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: #AGOInfinity, 2 Queen Street East, TTC, ROM
- The Art Gallery of Ontario has gotten its Infinity Room! Global News reports.
- The rehabilitation and renovation of 2 Queen Street East will be a high-profile project. The Globe and Mail reports.
- Steve Munro continues to examine the relative speeds of the 504 King and 501 Queen streetcars, here.
- This warning from the TTC union that Presto cards are too failure-prone to be able to properly take over from the Metropass in January makes me, a TTC user, worry. The Toronto Star reports.
- Toronto doctors can now issue their patients prescriptions to visit the ROM. blogTO reports.
Written by Randy McDonald
December 9, 2018 at 5:15 pm
Posted in Assorted, Economics, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with 2 queen street east, 501 queen, 504 king, architecture, art gallery of ontario, health, king street, medicine, metropass, museums, presto, public art, queen street, royal ontario museum, streetcar, toronto, ttc, Urban Note, yayoi kusama, yonge street
[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: TTC, parliament, Queens Quay, Jordan Peterson
- Christopher Hume’s sarcastic “praise” of the TTC as the better way since it gives people plenty of time to sit and do nothing, over at the Toronto Star, is notable.
- Steve Munro takes a look at service on the 501L bus route on Queen west to Long Branch.
- John Lorinc writes at the Toronto Star about the discovery of Ontario’s first parliament beneath a car lot at Front and Parliament, and what people are doing to publicize knowledge of this site.
- The TTC will be putting up a gate at the Queens Quay subway tunnel after yet another driver drove their vehicle into the streetcar route.
- Vinay Menon’s extended take in the Toronto Star on Jordan Peterson is weirdly compelling. What will Peterson do next?
Written by Randy McDonald
March 20, 2018 at 5:30 pm
Posted in Assorted, Demographics, Economics, History, Politics, Popular Culture, Social Sciences, Toronto, Urban Note
Tagged with 501 queen, 501l queens, archeology, clash of ideologies, history, jordan peterson, mass transit, ontario, politics, queen street, queens quay, streetcar, toronto, ttc, university of toronto, Urban Note