Nick Westoll

1 week ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Nick Westoll

Ontario government officials say the Eglinton Crosstown LRT has recently marked several milestones, including the completion of driver training, that will get the project closer to a tentative September opening date. During a news conference on Tuesday to formally kick off construction of the future East Harbour Transit Hub, 680 NewsRadio Toronto asked officials for an update on the opening of the 19-kilometre, 25-station Eglinton Crosstown line as the project is in its 14th year.

1 week ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Nick Westoll

As the TTC continues to explore adding platform-edge safety doors to all of its existing subway stations, a new report from the transit agency says the total cost of going ahead with an extensive retrofit has exploded to around $4.1 billion. The report set to be considered by the TTC board on June 23 includes a business case and feasibility study for retrofitting 74 sets of platforms at 70 subway stations on Lines 1, 2 and 4 with full-height platform-edge doors (PEDs).

1 week ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Nick Westoll

Toronto police officers and City staff are beginning a two-week enforcement blitz of downtown no-stopping zones as part of an effort to address traffic congestion. According to a City of Toronto statement, the blitz will occur every day between 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. starting on Monday and it will last until June 27.

4 weeks ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Nick Westoll

An emergency alert issued in the Greater Toronto Area hours after a Pickering woman was fatally stabbed is raising questions about the timeliness of the broadcast message as well as how it was classified as “terrorism” on some platforms. Just after 3 p.m. on Thursday, Durham Regional Police officers said they were called to a home on Lynn Heights Drive, near Whites Road North and Finch Avenue, after receiving reports that a woman was stabbed multiple times.

1 month ago | toronto.citynews.ca | Nick Westoll

The Ford government is looking to give all Ontario MPPs a 35-per-cent raise after a 16-year freeze as well as changing how provincial politicians receive their pensions. Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy tabled legislation at Queen’s Park on Thursday to end a cap on salary raises that was initially put in place in 2009 under the previous Liberal government led by former premier Dalton McGuinty, bringing provincial representatives closer to what federal MPs earn.