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PHOTO: TARA WALTON/TORONTO STAR

Funding the transit system we want today… with 2006’s tax rate

For a generation of Torontonians, it’s been the question no one wanted to contemplate: How do we pay for transit? Since the 1990s, we’ve been starving...;

PHOTOS: ROB DUFFY/THE GRID

Snapshot: Union Station’s revitalization project rolls on

The $640 million project will turn the area below Toronto's biggest transit hub into an expansive retail centre, while adding greater capacity for passengers...;

PHOTO: SEAN DECORY/THE GRID

Vandalize this

For the past few weeks, the biggest graffiti mural in Canadian history has been taking shape on a concrete sound barrier in the west end. Between Joe...;

TTC video

Trending: July 10

1. Metrolinx has released the nifty video above depicting the tunnel-digging process for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT, which won't affect buildings above...;

PHOTO: JACK LAKEY/TORONTO STAR

Can Toronto become a public-transit beacon for the world again?

In Taras Grescoe’s new book, Straphanger, he explores the quality of public transit in various countries around the world. “I always planned to end...;

Metrolinx

Trending: April 24

1. Metrolinx has approved a light-rail plan that would see four lines built by 2020 (Sheppard East, Finch West, Scarborough, and the Eglinton Crosstown...;

PHOTOS: SHELLEY WHITE/THE GRID

Derelict Delights: Kodak Building #9

If you’re heading down Black Creek Drive south of Eglinton Avenue West, hang a right at Photography Drive. If you need to stock up on trail mix or Pizza...;

_PHOTO: CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR

How Rob Ford lost the biggest fight of his mayoralty

It’s around midnight on a Wednesday, and Rob Ford is riding the Scarborough RT. When one of his communications staffers, Isaac Ransom, tweets a picture...;

ILLUSTRATION: The office of Paul Jackson

Power shift

The local group of activists calling themselves Code Red, who are dedicated to overturning the mayor’s transit policy, got a morale boost on Jan. 17...;

Photograph_CARLOS OSORIO/TORONTO STAR

Come back, Transit City, all is forgiven

Holy crap, it's been an insanely enraging week (or month, or year) of news from the world of Toronto transit. Right now, as I type this, apparently 70...;