Toronto streetcar

Transportation headlines, Thursday, Feb. 14; subway romance, Burbank's monorail, Surfliner Express woes, $50 cup of Starbucks video

Here is a look at some of the transportation headlines gathered by us and the Metro Library. The full list of headlines is posted on the Library’s Headlines blog, which you can also access via email subscription or RSS feed. TIFIA loans likely skewed toward new road projects (The Transport Politic) Good post by [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Erik Mauer, via Flickr Creative Commons Part of a very interesting “Then and Now” series, superimposing old photos with new urban landscape. The photo shows the Spadina Streetcar – and its previous incarnation as a Belt Line streetcar – in Toronto, Canada. To submit a photo for the [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Jason Allies, via Flickr A well composed and colorful — especially for a rainy day — shot of a streetcar in Toronto. To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email them to sourcemetro@gmail.com. The photos we’ve featured can be seen [continue reading]

The art of transit

photo by Brian Cameron, via Flickr Nice shot of streetcar tracks being reconstructed in the Roncesvalles section of Toronto. That’s not exactly a very wide street, eh? To submit a photo or photos of something transportation-related, post them to Metro’s Flickr group or email them to sourcemetro@gmail.com. The photos we’ve [continue reading]