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This is just plain WRONG. Why did someone cut off the hand of the Black Guy at Ossington Station?
Saturday December 5, 2009 – 2:15 pm | 3 Comments
This is just plain WRONG. Why did someone cut off the hand of the Black Guy at Ossington Station?

By HiMY SYeD
Yesterday, on the eastbound platform I spotted the above giant wall advertisement for an Olympics sponsor (They don’t pay me enough to mention the partner but you’re smart enough to figure out who …

Is Royal Canadian Mint making a "TTC-Rex" $4.00 Token in advance of Toronto's Pan-Am Games ?
Tuesday December 1, 2009 – 10:16 am | No Comment
Is Royal Canadian Mint making a "TTC-Rex" $4.00 Token in advance of Toronto's Pan-Am Games ?

By HiMY SYeD
Two Hundred and Fifty Million Years ago, dinosaurs ruled the Earth. They died and became oil. Today the TTC uses that oil to power its buses. We use tokens to ride those buses.
Lately …

T. EXCLUSIVE: Cellphone interview with Deer in Downtown – Doe!
Tuesday November 24, 2009 – 11:58 am | No Comment
T. EXCLUSIVE: Cellphone interview with Deer in Downtown – Doe!

By HiMY SYeD
Various news and media outlets have been reporting all morning there is a wild deer wandering around the Downtown Core. T. has reached the Female Deer by cellphone . . .
T. Hello, good …

Bulk TTC Token Sales Halted – Back to the Future with Adult Paper Tickets starting monday
Sunday November 22, 2009 – 3:59 pm | No Comment
Bulk TTC Token Sales Halted – Back to the Future with Adult Paper Tickets starting monday

By HiMY SYeD
As an answer to the rush of bulk token purchases by transit riders in advance of the 25 cent adult fare increase in the new year, the TTC Monday will re-introduce adult paper …

Persephone – The Kensington Market Garden Car
Wednesday November 11, 2009 – 10:34 pm | 3 Comments
Persephone – The Kensington Market Garden Car

By HiMY SYeD
Late in the afternoon on Remembrance Day, the Garden Car in Kensington Market called it a season and was towed to its winter home.

The Garden Car has been a summer fixture on north …

Toronto Accessible Public Transportation: Lovely interactions with the TTC and their Wheel Trans – By Kathy Hammond
Saturday June 27, 2009 – 8:53 pm | 2 Comments
Toronto Accessible Public Transportation: Lovely interactions with the TTC and their Wheel Trans – By Kathy Hammond

By Kathy Hammond
Living in Toronto and being the parent of a child who is disabled and uses a wheel chair to get around, sit in, and pretty much do everything except sleep in, I …

Toronto Transit Commission = Idiots? – By Angela Poon
Monday June 8, 2009 – 12:47 pm | No Comment
Toronto Transit Commission = Idiots? – By Angela Poon

By Angela Poon

On April 1st, 2009 the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) put into effect the notion that metropass holders would no longer receive free parking at… 16 lots they normally would?  (Non-metropass holders paid to …

Dear Toronto #36 – Toronto Bike Awards
Monday February 9, 2009 – 3:33 pm | No Comment
Dear Toronto #36 – Toronto Bike Awards

"On January 20th, 2008, I Bike T.O. held their first (hopefully annual) Toronto Bike Awards at the Gladstone Hotel . With a winter-layering reverse strip-tease skit, cycle-machine races and live music from GUH and DJ …