Yet another reason to love Toronto: Check out the "Transit City" plan (video clip):

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Here's the Toronto Transit Commission's brief description and a cool video describing Toronto's Transit City plan, which will create downtown-ish mass transit in the 'burbs, making it unnecessary to own a car, even when going burb to burb:



Why does Toronto need Transit City?

The Toronto Transit City Light Rail Plan is an exciting initiative that will revolutionize transit and transportation across Toronto. Its far-reaching lines will revitalize neighbourhoods, spur economic growth and clean the air we breathe. Seven new Light Rail Transit (LRT) lines will bring reliable, fast, quiet and comfortable transit service to many Toronto neighbourhoods. Transit City has been strongly endorsed by the TTC, the City of Toronto, and Metrolinx, the regional transportation agency.The Province of Ontario has announced funding for the construction of the lines and they are incorporated into the Regional Transportation Plan recently proposed by Metrolinx.

Transit City routes have been selected to reinforce the strong pro-transit focus of the City’s Official Plan.Transit City routes have been the subject of discussions at hundreds of public meetings during the City of Toronto’s Official Plan public consultation. All seven routes will connect with the existing TTC subway system,GO Rail lines, other Transit City routes, and planned rapid transit lines in Durham, York and Peel regions. They will provide new direct high quality transit links to areas that are currently far removed from rapid transit, including the north, west, and eastern areas of Toronto.

Transit City Video: http://www3.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Projects_and_initiatives/Transit_city/index.jsp

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1. Hey! That's a picture of my old subway stop!

Edit:

They're right about Toronto's public transit being well known: for being expensive and not going where you want it to. If they can pull off this plan, I'll be mightily impressed. Hopefully they can get a system to match the coolness of the city itself.