Missing the bus, and the point
In the wake of Toronto’s fifth transit strike in 19 years, we may expect a groundswell of support for “declaring transit an essential service,” ie taking away transit workers’ right to strike. As...
View ArticleU-Pass fraud in Vancouver, says CBC
According to a CBC News investigation, about three dozen Vancouver university students are illegally selling their discounted transit passes online for a profit, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg....
View ArticleAre you too old for a student bus pass?
As of July 1, student bus passes in Ottawa will only be available to those 27 and younger – and some students are not too happy about it. Older students must now pay the full adult rate for a monthly...
View ArticleOttawa students demand reversal of age cap on bus passes
The City of Ottawa is one step closer to removing an age limit for student bus passes, a move that student groups have criticized since the policy started in July. The Ottawa transit committee voted...
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U-Pass gets a chance in Ottawa
After a lengthy debate over pricing, Ottawa’s city council voted to give the university transit pass pilot project the go-ahead at budget deliberations Thursday night. The proposed project still has to...
View ArticleTrain within nowhere
Peter Shawn Taylor has found a transit project so questionable I actually think even I wouldn’t support it: a light rail transit system in the Waterloo, Ont. downtown core. I’ll let Peter (who often...
View ArticleVive le transit libre!
Transit and traffic are emerging as major issues in the Toronto mayoral election, with rival candidates unveiling proposals to replace streetcars, build a tunnel under the downtown, extend subways or...
View ArticleMontreal transit accused of ‘age discrimination’
A Concordia University student is accusing the Société de transport de Montréal of “age discrimination,” because students over 25 are not eligible for discounted bus fares. Desea Trujillo, 40, and a...
View ArticlePart-time students could lose TTC discount
Part-time students in Toronto could lose their eligibility for discounted transit fares, if city council approves a recommendation from the Toronto Transit Commission. While the TTC extended the...
View ArticlePart-time students officially lose TTC discount
Toronto city councilors, who make up the board of the Toronto Transit Commission, voted Tuesday to officially strip part-time students of their transit discount. TTC staff made the recommendation to...
View ArticleUMontréal students get u-pass
A U-Pass system will be implemented at Université de Montréal this coming fall. Despite a 2007 referendum where students endorsed the plan, it hasn’t been until now that funding has been secured from...
View ArticleStudent transit pass fraud costing Vancouver $15-million
TransLink, Vancouver’s transit authority, is threatening to cancel its discount transit pass program for students because it loses as much as $15 million each year due to lost, stolen and illegally...
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Newsmakers: June 2-9, 2011
Ken McKay/TalkbackThames/Rex Features/CP Happy birthday, Mr. President Turning 80 usually warrants a birthday party. But Cuban President Raúl Castro was hardly celebrated at all. It seems his advanced...
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Next stop, groceries
Photography by Liz Sullivan Subway platforms are normally just places for people to avoid eye contact while blasting 80 decibels into their eardrums. But during a recent experiment in Seoul, commuters...
View ArticlePaul Dewar goes urban (II)
Courtesy of the Dewar campaign, here are the other elements of the NDP leadership candidate’s urban agenda. -Ensure a seat at the table for municipalities in federal/provincial/territorial negotiations...
View ArticleGondola to Simon Fraser won’t fly
Vancouver’s transit authority has released a report on the viability of a gondola to ferry students and professors up Burnaby Mountain to Simon Fraser University. The report by CH2M Hill found that it...
View ArticleStudent quits over Halifax transit strike
A Saint Mary’s University student said he quit his classes on Monday because the transit strike in Halifax has made it too difficult to get to school. “I was already missing assignments and quizzes and...
View ArticleA vision of Vancouver’s pay-to-drive future
Road tolls, carbon taxes and a smorgasbord of new fees are all being considered to help pay for mass transit in greater Vancouver. But according to a confidential report obtained by the Vancouver Sun,...
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What students are talking about today (Oct. 4 edition)
B.C. Transit bus (scazon/Flickr) 1. In a poll, two-thirds of CNN viewers concurred that Romney came out on top. Romney didn’t win with the under-12 demographic, however, as he said he’d cut funding to...
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Osheaga lineup, Cuddle Parties & #upeimentalhealth
Robert Smith from the Cure (Orator/Flickr) 1. The headliners of Montreal’s much-anticipated Osheaga Music and Arts festival in August will be the Cure and Mumford & Sons. If those two bands don’t...
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Students sick of being passed by buses
Oran Viriyincy/Flickr In the Western Gazette this week, writer Mary Ann Ciosk describes a scene that plays out hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of times a year in university towns across Canada:...
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What’s behind the University of Beautiful Cars?
Ferrari at UBC (Phillip Jeffrey/www.fadetoplay.com) UBC stands for the University of British Columbia but recently a new acronym emerged: University of Beautiful Cars. This was coined by an anonymous...
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Toronto mayoral race: Battle of the subways
(J.P. Moczulski/Reuters) To the disappointment of journalists and late-night talk-show hosts everywhere, the Toronto mayoral election seems to have very little to do with crack videos and much to do...
View ArticlePlaying out the possibilities of Metro Vancouver’s transit-tax vote
VANCOUVER – Residents of Metro Vancouver were handed an unprecedented opportunity to vote for new and improved regional transportation in a transit-tax plebiscite that both sides are confident of...
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What B.C.’s transit plebiscite tells us about voters and taxation
Metro Vancouver learned the results of the transit plebiscite on Thursday morning. The result: a resounding ‘No’ with only 38 per cent voting in favour. Previously in Maclean’s I explained the...
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A surprisingly cheery history of urban commuting
Christian Lapid/CP RUSH HOUR: HOW 500 MILLION COMMUTERS SURVIVE THE DAILY JOURNEY TO WORK Iain Gately Commuting has a terrible reputation, and for good reason. As even this surprisingly sunny take on...
View ArticleCalgary mayor says staff, councillors threatened at public meeting
CALGARY – Calgary’s mayor says he’s calling off any future open houses to talk about a rapid transit plan because city staff were physically assaulted and threatened at a public meeting this week....
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Ottawa and Ontario to sign major transit funding agreement
THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld OTTAWA – The federal treasury is doling out $1.49 billion worth of transit funding among cities in Ontario for track upgrades, new buses and improvements and...
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Why the escalator etiquette of ‘stand right, walk left’ is wrong
Rush hour commuters on London Underground escalators, UK. (Alex Segre/Getty Images) The modern escalator debuted in 1900 at the Paris Exposition—to great wonder and acclaim. Four years later, Canada...
View ArticleWhat Canadians think of travel and transportation
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Canadian commute times are getting longer, census finds
Christian Lapid/CP FREDERICTON – More members of the workforce are cramming the country’s buses, subways and highways each day, adding precious minutes to the daily commute, Statistics Canada reported...
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Why a lone Good Samaritan stepped up in a Vancouver attack on Muslim teen
Noor Fadel and Jake Taylor, photographed in Vancouver on Dec. 6, 2017. (Photograph by Hadani Ditmars) On the evening of Dec. 4, 18-year-old Noor Fadel—a Muslim teen born in B.C. whose family moved to...
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How Canada’s housing crisis is fuelling violence on our public-transit systems
Transit union president John Di Nino sees a link between rising violence and worsening societal conditions throughout Canada (photo by Getty Images. Illustration by Maclean’s.) I started my career in...
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