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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Brian Doucet: Toronto has to think outside the box on transit (in TheToronto Star)

"If Toronto is to truly have a transportation system that will meet the needs of its current and future residents, two key things will need to be done. First, it will need to ditch the streetcars versus subways debate and start to think outside the box. Second, it will need to leave the planning of its future transit infrastructure to the experts rather than politicians. Streetcars versus subways has defined the last two mayors and these benign words have become toxic. They inhibit thinking up more innovative solutions practised elsewhere."

Full article: Toronto has to think outside the box on transit.

Brian Doucet is a lecturer in urban geography at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.