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India–Panama relations

Also, cooperation over IT & E-Governance, cyber security and training, and Indian space agency ISRO's proposed TTC station in Panama were discussed.


505 Dundas

At Ossington Avenue, it turns eastward and passes through Toronto's original Chinatown and goes by the Art Gallery of Ontario before meeting up with the St. Patrick subway station at University Avenue.

Achilla Orru

In Toronto, Achilla Orru was also well known as a TTC subway musician, often playing at Bloor-Yonge subway station.

Barrie line

As a part of the Toronto-York Spadina Subway Extension, a new GO station will be built to interchange with the Downsview Park Subway station.

Claude Watson School for the Arts

Known across Canada, it has performed at Toronto's 2008 Olympic bid, TTC's 50th Anniversary, the Opening Ceremonies of the 1997 Special Olympics at the Sky Dome, and numerous cultural festivals around the world in addition to major production partnerships with professional companies like the Canadian Opera Company.

Empress Walk

Across the street, and connected via the TTC tunnel, are Mel Lastman Square, the North York Civic Centre, the North York City Centre office tower and Novotel.

Finch Avenue

Route 139 Finch-Don Mills Express is a peak-hour bus that serves the Don Mills Station on the Sheppard Subway line and the 199 Finch Rocket is an all day route serving Scarborough Centre Station on the Scarborough RT.

The station features a large TTC bus terminal, and the adjoining Finch Bus Terminal is a hub for GO Transit, Viva and York Region Transit buses.

H. H. Couzens

Couzens resigned his positions as general manager of Toronto Hydro and of the TTC in 1924, and joined the Brazilian Traction, Light and Power Co. a Canadian-owned utility based in Brazil, with extensive holdings in South America, and later became vice-president of the company.

History of the Toronto Transit Commission

Important dignitaries, including the Premier Leslie Frost, and Toronto mayor Allan A. Lamport, rode the first train, going north from the yards at Davisville Station, and then south from Eglinton along the entire line.

Instead, a proposed extension on the Danforth end of the Bloor–Danforth line was built in 1985 as the L-shaped Scarborough RT line, which went from Kennedy to McCowan Station.

While the TTC can does not have funding to break ground on new projects, it is completing the planning stages, including an environmental assessment, for an extension of the Spadina line north to York University and Vaughan Metropolitan Centre.

Islington-City Centre West

The Toronto Transit Commission's Bloor–Danforth line was extended into Etobicoke as far as Islington in 1968 with the establishment of Islington station at Islington Avenue and Bloor Street West.

Jamaal Magloire

In the early morning hours of June 23, 2001, Magloire's half-brother, 19-year-old Justin Sheppard, was shot and killed on the footbridge that spans the ravine around Rosedale Valley Road between Bloor Street East and Glen Road near Sherbourne subway station in Toronto.

John Records Landecker

The initialism of 'Trudeau Talks Cute' was TTC, which was also used to play up the often-unpopular Toronto Transit Commission.

Lagos Rail Mass Transit

In September 2011, LAMATA announced that it would acquire 255 H5 and H6 model subway trains from the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC).

Lawrence Avenue

There are three rapid transit stations; Lawrence at Yonge Street and Lawrence West at Allen Road on the Yonge-University-Spadina subway line, and Lawrence East on the Scarborough RT, between Kennedy Road and Midland Avenue.

Malvern, Toronto

On June 15, 2007, the Ontario government had released MoveOntario 2020, a plan that would fund 52 different transit projects throughout Toronto and Hamilton for the cost of $17.5 billion, including the Scarborough RT extension to Sheppard Avenue, which would meet the proposed Sheppard East LRT line, also to be funded by MoveOntario 2020.

Mississauga Transitway

Route 109 runs between the Meadowvale Town Centre terminal in northwest Mississauga, the Erin Mills Town Centre Bus Terminal in western Mississauga serving the growing Erin Mills community, the City Centre Transit Terminal, the Airport Corporate Centre, and the Islington Subway Station, a major terminal in Toronto.

MiWay

The system also connects with Brampton Transit to the north, Oakville Transit to the west, York Region Transit to the northeast, and the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) to the east, including the Islington and Kipling subway stations on the Bloor–Danforth line.

Moothakunnam

Hindu Matha Dharma Paripalana (HMDP) Sabha operates an engineering college (SNM IMT), an arts and sciences college (SNM College, Maliankara), an education college (SNM B. Ed College), a teacher training center (SNM TTC, Moothakunnam), an industrial training center (SNM ITI, Moothakunnam), and a higher secondary school (SNM H.S, Moothakunnam), all within three kilometers of the village.

Morningside Heights, Toronto

The TTC's 133 Neilson bus serves most of the area, with a connection to the Scarborough Centre RT station and Scarborough Town Centre.

Onestop Media Group

In early 2004, Fourth Wall approached the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC), through then static advertising incumbent, CBS Outdoor (then named Viacom Outdoor) with a new concept of digital signage as an information network, that was 100% supported by ad dollars.

In the summer of 2004, the TTC awarded the rights to a pilot and eventual contract to Fourth Wall, that then spun off the digital signage subsidiary, Onestop Media Group to handle the Toronto Transit Commission and all future digital signage contracts.

Richard Ducharme

Ducharme initially had a better relationship with former TTC Chair Howard Moscoe and other politicians.

However, after a wildcat strike staged by the Amalgamated Transit Union, Local 113, Ducharme found out that there were talks between Moscoe and ATU President Bob Kinnear that bypassed TTC management.

Rick Mercer Report

Often Mercer will participate in some demonstration related to the location (e.g. driving a TTC bus while visiting the agency's bus compound), with comic results.

Scarborough Centre Bus Terminal

On the same station, west of the bus terminal, is the TTC rapid transit station on the Scarborough RT line.

Sheppard line

On January 23, 2012, TTC Chair Karen Stintz suggested a plan to extend the line two stops eastwards funded by making the eastern portion of the Eglinton Crosstown line at street level.

In addition, between Leslie and Bessarion stations, a former Canadian Tire warehouse/distribution centre next to Highway 401 (the chain retains a store nearby, along with Mark's Work Wearhouse, also owned by Canadian Tire) was demolished and the land was being sold to Concord Adex Investments Limited of Vancouver.

Gordon Chong, head of the TTC agency tasked with analyzing the new subway plans, has said it is possible that no new transit development will occur along Sheppard.

Technical Testing Center

TTC is formed by uniting and transformation 7 military technical institutes of Yugoslav Ground Forces in 1973.

Toronto streetcar system

According to Steve Munro, an expert on the history of Toronto area transit, TTC gauge is "English carriage gauge".

Toronto Transit Commission accessibility

All trains offer automated audible-only station stop announcements recorded by a TTC employee, Susan Bigioni, the new Toronto Rocket subway cars have twice the accessible seating compared to the existing T1 and H6 subway cars.

TTC Special Constable Services

Peel Police and TTC Special Constables executed a search warrant on December 20, 2006, in Peel Region.

Andy Byford, the CEO of the TTC, requested to the Toronto Police Services Board in October 2013 to restore the Special Constable program in a effort to implement an independent complaints process and public awareness campaign.

Vaughan Metropolitan Centre

It will be linked by a future subway station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the Toronto subway and RT system.

Yonge–University–Spadina line

Premier Leslie Frost and Mayor Allan A. Lamport, among other important people, rode the first train that morning, going north from the yards at Davisville Station, and then from Eglinton south along the entire line.

York Mills Bus Terminal

The terminal mainly supports GO Transit's bus services east and west across the Highway 401 corridor and is adjacent to York Mills station on the Yonge-University-Spadina line of the Toronto Subway.


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