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	History of the Toronto Transit Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On January 1, 1954, the Toronto Transportation Commission was renamed the Toronto Transit Commission and public transit was placed under the jurisdiction of the new Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto.
		Changes to the composition of the Metro Toronto council moved the balance of power towards the suburban areas, and soon afterwards in 1973 the Yonge subway line was extended north to York Mills Road, and the next year it was as far north as Finch Avenue.
		Nonetheless, the TTC recognizes the importance of rapid transit for the growing Greater Toronto Area, and is already in the planning stages, including an environmental assessment, for an extension of the Spadina line north to York University.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Transit_History (1623 words)

	Toronto Transit Commission - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Toronto Transit Commission, or TTC, is a public transport authority that operates buses, streetcars, and rapid transit lines in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
		As of 2004, there are four rapid transit lines (three are referred to as "subways", while a fourth is mostly elevated; see Toronto Subway and RT), with a total of 69 stations, as well as 149 connecting "surface" routes (buses and streetcars).
		Toronto's streetcar system is one of the few in North America still operating along classic lines and has been operating since the mid-19th century (horsecar service starting in 1861 and electric since 1891).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Transit_Commission (2266 words)

	TORONTO : Encyclopedia Entry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Toronto is at the centre of the Golden Horseshoe, a densely populated region in Ontario which is home to roughly eight million people, or one quarter of the Canadian population.
		The City of Toronto covers an area of 641 square kilometres (247 sq mi) and is bounded by Lake Ontario to the south, Etobicoke Creek and Highway 427 to the west, Steeles Avenue to the north, and the Rouge River to the east.
		Toronto is rarely affected by the remnants of Atlantic hurricanes, although Hurricane Hazel in 1954 produced widespread flooding and damage throughout the area.
	bahairesearch.com /LookUpDefinitions/toronto (4181 words)

	Rapid transit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A rapid transit, underground, subway, elevated, or metro system is a railway system, usually in an urban area, with a high capacity and frequency of service, and grade separation from other traffic.
		Sometimes, for political reasons, commuter lines are operated by a separate authority that tends not to co-operate with the city's transit authority (except in Japan, where the commuter routes are frequent in suburbs and form the backbone of the networks).
		Before any plans were made for transit systems with underground tunnels and stations, several railway operators built tunnels for their trains, usually to reduce the grade of the railway line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Metro (4204 words)

	UTU: News
		TORONTO -- The Canadian federal government will soon pledge $76-million in capital funding to the Toronto Transit Commission, the first time Ottawa has given direct financial help to a city for transit, according to the Globe and Mail.
		Federal contributions to transit will also be on the agenda of TTC chairman Brian Ashton, who is in Ottawa today to talk to officials about the recent federal budget proposal for an expanded program to help municipalities with high-cost initiatives.
		Whatever Ottawa's commitment, Toronto transit riders are still on the hook for a fare increase by June.
	www.utu.org /worksite/detail_news.cfm?ArticleID=1111 (647 words)

	Toronto Catalog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Toronto is a city of many museums, theatres, events and sports.
		Toronto is a city also struggling to come to grips with a nagging homeless problem which has ebbed and flowed throughout the years.
		Toronto's central business district is separated from the waterfront by an expanse of open railway and by an elevated highway, the Gardiner Expressway.
	www.torontopost.biz /Info?Toronto (4252 words)

	ClientLogic in Toronto, Ontario (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The city of Toronto is the fifth largest city in North America, but has one of the lowest crime rates of any major city on the continent.
		Toronto's Lester B. Pearson International Airport saw 28.9 million passengers pass through its terminals in 2000 and expects to see that number grow to 50 million by 2020.
		Toronto also boasts the second largest transit system in North America, the Toronto Transit Committee, which serves more than 1.2 million passengers daily.
	www.clientlogic.com /canada/toronto.html (190 words)

	Welcome to Toronto! Toronto City Guide & Information
		Toronto is a clean, safe, cosmopolitan city with a wonderful network of parks, recreational, and cultural facilities.
		Toronto is the home of four professional sports teams and the third largest English-speaking theatre district in the world, behind New York and London.
		Toronto introduces the 647 area code in March 2001 and will require local 10-digit dialing for all telephone calls within the Toronto area.
	www.math.toronto.edu /toronto (234 words)

	Toronto travel guide - Wikitravel
		Toronto [1] is a city in Canada and is the largest city within the country, with a metropolitan population of more than 5 million people.
		Toronto Islands - A chain of islands in Toronto harbour and home to a small residential community, an airport, miles of bike trails, picnic grounds and a nude beach.
		Toronto has a well maintained and effective public transportation system, run by the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), and you can get pretty well anywhere you want in the main part of the city with the subway / streetcars / buses.
	wikitravel.org /en/Toronto (4652 words)

	Rogers Centre - Toronto Blue Jays
		Toronto is definitely an interesting place to watch a ballgame, regardless of age.
		Toronto is a very diverse city and one of the safest in the world.
		Their subway and bus system, run by the Toronto Transit Commission, is thorough enough that renting a car is unnecessary.
	www.baseballpilgrimages.com /american/toronto.html (2034 words)

	The City of Toronto
		Toronto has multiple levels of urbanization, from the densely populated inner core, to the quieter inner suburbs, and of course the usual outer suburbs and fringe cities.
		Toronto is crossed by many river and creek valleys running down to the lakeshore from the North, from the Credit in the west to the Rouge in the east.
		Toronto has a large and prosperous Muslim population, Hindus, Baha'is, Orthodox and Western Christians, Buddhists of many descriptions, New-Agers, Zoroastrians, and the city is a major Jewish centre.
	www.interlog.com /~gilgames/toskyln.htm (3211 words)

	SingaporeMoms - Parenting Encyclopedia - Toronto Subway and RT
		The Toronto Transit Commission operates the subway and RT system in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
		There are arguments over the reason why this is. One popular belief is that the City of Toronto feared that the Toronto Railway Company, which held the franchise to run streetcars before the TTC was created, would allow Canadian Pacific Railway to operate steam locomotives through city streets.
		This subway station was briefly used in interlining between two of Toronto's lines in 1966, producing an effect similar to the "branching" lines of metro systems in some other cities.
	www.singaporemoms.com /parenting/Toronto_Subway_and_RT (1745 words)

	Toronto Transit Commission - History
		Toronto's first public transportation company was the Williams Omnibus Bus Line, which carried passengers in horse drawn stagecoaches along Yonge Street between the St. Lawrence Market and the Village of Yorkville for sixpence in 1849.
		Transit service is briefly operated by the City before a new 30-year franchise is granted, to the privately-owned Toronto Railway Company.
		Toronto Transportation Commission is established, and begins planning for municipal operation of transit service after the expiry of the Toronto Railway Company's 30-year franchise.
	www.toronto.ca /ttc/history.htm (1471 words)

	Torontoist
		Police found a man who fell into Toronto harbour right at the foot of Yonge St. Police isn't sure why the man jumped in or whether he was pushed.
		Sarah B. Hood who runs the Unknown Toronto blog spotted these fake bills that Sytrsky is using as campaign promo material.
		If you were at one of the myriad events in the city this past weekend, you may have noticed, and perhaps even used, Toronto Water's utilitarian marketing campaign: an H2O to go trailer.
	www.torontoist.com (2789 words)

	Old Pueblo Trolley -- An All-Volunteer Operating Transit Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		We operate historic transit vehicles "for the charitable and educational benefit, use and enjoyment of the public." This does not, however, mean that we will operate every piece of equipment we acquire.
		In order to maintain a museum of transit history, in addition to the local historic collection, other tram, trolley, and streetcars have been acquired without regard to their specific connection to Tucson trolley history.
		Although OPT was initially formed to bring back one type vehicle (electric streetcars), as a transit museum OPT is now committed to acquiring examples of all types of transit vehicles, including a large number of buses.
	www.oldpueblotrolley.org /collect.htm (367 words)

	History of Regional Transit in Toronto, Ontario
		Acquired by the City of Toronto 16 August 1922 and operated by the Hydro Electric Power Commission of Ontario as the Hydro Electric Railways: Toronto and York Division from 01 November 1922 until 12 January 1927.
		The last commuter rail service operated by a railway (as opposed to a transit agency) in the Toronto region was Via Rail Canada, Inc. 's Toronto - Peterborough - Havelock service (ended 12 January 1990).
		GO Transit is became the responsibility of the Toronto Area Transportation Operating Authority (TATOA), and since 1999 the Greater Toronto Services Board.
	home.cc.umanitoba.ca /~wyatt/alltime/toronto-suburbs-on.html (1059 words)

	CTV Toronto - Former basketball star charged in token fraud - CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Andrea Dawson, 30, also of Toronto was charged in Niagara Falls, New York, with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, according to the Star.
		Transit officials say the fake tokens may have cost the system $10 million dollars.
		This is the biggest counterfeiting bust in TTC history and the third alleged fraud exposed in the past two years.
	toronto.ctv.ca /servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20060212/basketball_star_060212/20060212?hub=TorontoHome (389 words)

	Transit Toronto - Content: Lansdowne Carhouse & Garage
		Although disused by the TTC as an active division since February 17, 1996, Lansdowne Carhouse is a silent, lonely reminder of the extensive network of carhouses and streetcar lines that once served West Toronto during its rapid industrial growth during the late nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries.
		The railroad crossed Lansdowne at grade, and the route itself was split between the TRC and the TCR (Toronto Civic Railway).
		Although the City of Toronto declared Lansdowne a historical building (date unknown), this was not enough to save the structure from being pulled down.
	transit.toronto.on.ca /trolleybus/9301.shtml (1888 words)

	Toronto Tranportation Commission
		The Toronto Transportation Commission was formed September 1, 1921, when the City of Toronto acquired the Toronto Street Railway Company and the Toronto Civic Railways.
		During the period between 1921 and 1927, the Toronto Suburban Railways and the Toronto and York Radial Railway & Metropolitan Lines were also taken over by the T.T.C. The Toronto Transportation Commission ceased to exist December 31, 1953, being replaced on January 1, 1954 by the Toronto Transit Commission.
		The Toronto Transit Commission is not associated with, nor participated in its preparation.
	www.trainweb.org /elso/TTC.HTM (863 words)

	TheStar.com - TTC busts bogus transit token ring (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		05:38 PM A tip from the Toronto police's guns and gangs task force almost two years ago has culminated in the bust of a $10 million TTC-token counterfeit ring - the biggest in the Toronto Transit Commission's history and the third counterfeit ring exposed in the last two years.
		The weight and shape were the same, but analysis later determined the letters of the Toronto Transit Commission were too crowded at the top, the "S" didn't snake at the end and the texture in the background behind the TTC wings was too smooth.
		TTC general manager Rick Ducharme said the transit system loses approximately $7 million a year through fraud, and audits are conducted continually to combat the problem.
	www.thestar.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1139568922780&call_pageid=968350130169&StarSource=RSS (944 words)

	Toronto BAHN Layouts
		Toronto has a rich history of rail transit, and to this day has much to offer for the BAHN modeller.
		The Toronto Transit Commission and its predecessors have been operating subways since 1954 and streetcars since the 1860s.
		This is an update of Neil Hacioglu's original model of the Toronto subway as it might have been in 2010.
	www.clarksbury.com /jamesanderin/bahntor.htm (623 words)

	Toronto Sun Columnist: Christina Blizzard - Celebrating Toronto's transit history
		There was a moment of delicious irony at the end of yesterday's Liberal group hug about public transit.
		Well, it could have saved half a dozen more if he and the rest of the Liberal bigwigs had pried themselves out of their limos and onto a streetcar yesterday.
		This $1 billion for transit may sound like a lot, but the provincial share is $70 million annually for five years.
	www.canoe.ca /NewsStand/Columnists/Toronto/Christina_Blizzard/2004/03/31/402350.html (956 words)

	Transit Toronto - Content: The Orion Buses
		It was designed to build a local industry for transit vehicles and was a bus counterpart to Ontario’s streetcar-producing Urban Transit Development Corporation.
		At the time, transit agencies in Ontario had 75% of their capital expenses paid for by the Ontario government, and all agencies were strongly encouraged to buy local.
		As a result, OBI supplied a number of buses for transit agencies throughout the province, including the Toronto Transit Commission.
	transit.toronto.on.ca /bus/8509.shtml (1289 words)

	History of Typography - Toronto Subway, Page 2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		For History of Typography course, 2nd year Graphic Design at the Ontario College of Art and Design; I had to research the old and new typographical styles of the entire Toronto Subway system and make into a timeline.
		Further research from the Toronto Archives and Transit Toronto Another great resource about the colour scheme of the stations can be found at Toronto Subway Station Tiles written by Justin Bur and John Chew.
		One little quibble though: the Toronto Subway Station Tiles page was written (as indicated in its footer) by Justin Bur and myself, not our good friend Craig White, though only because we got around to it first.
	www.flickr.com /photos/94924547@N00/74056072 (497 words)

	The Rolling Stock Collections Report - Streetcars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Of note is that the first electric streetcar, MSR #350, and the last, MTC #3517, built for Montreal were built in St. Louis Mo. The PCC's spent most of their operating life on the Outremont #29 line.
		First new car acquired by the Toronto Transportation Commission when it was created to take over all streetcar operation in Toronto on Sept. 1, 1921.
		TTC 2300 is on loan to the Toronto and York Division of the C.R.H.A.
	www.exporail.org /collection/collection_tram_ang.htm (1463 words)

	We Move Toronto: Transit Workers Union launches largest public campaign in history, including Metropass Giveaway : ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		TORONTO, March 22 /CNW/ - In an effort to make Toronto aware of the great economic and environmental value of its members' work, Transit Workers Local 113 has launched the largest public advocacy campaign in the union's 106-year history.
		The union represents 8,300 Toronto Transit Commission Operators, Collectors, Clerks and Maintenance staff.
		Besides numerous facts about the value of Toronto's public transit system and profiles of many of the people who make it work, the site also features a short "Welcome" video in which Kinnear introduces his members and gives an illuminating and evocative explanation of their work.
	press.arrivenet.com /business/article.php/611913.html (402 words)

	Transit Toronto (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		CTV Toronto is reporting that another wildcat strike is possible, as talks between the TTC union and its management have stalled.
		Transit activist Steve Munro comments on the comments made by Rick Ducharme during a Toronto Star interview taken after Ducharme’s departure from the TTC.
		This news has not been taken up by either the Toronto Star or CBC Toronto, and if you read between the lines of the report, it seems likely that TTC management may be taking steps to ensure that the commission is better prepared should a wildcat strike occur at some undetermined date.
	transit.toronto.on.ca (3324 words)

	craigslist: toronto classifieds for jobs, apartments, personals, for sale, services, community, and events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	toronto.craigslist.org (164 words)

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