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A hulking straphanger allegedly incensed over a seat he wanted on a crowded D-train senselessly stabbed another rider to death in front of horrified passengers in Midtown early today, police said. A train conductor quickly sealed the doors, locking in the suspect until police arrived at the northbound 7th Av platform around 2 a.m.. The deadly confrontation erupted in the first car, which had some two dozen riders, after the 36-year-old victim refused to move a bag off a seat where the suspect wanted to  

A man was arrested after allegedly stabbing another man to death in a subway train in Manhattan earlier today. Police say the 37-year-old suspect stabbed a 36-year-old man multiple times in the neck and face during an argument on a northbound D train at the Seventh Avenue station around 2 a.m. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene. His alleged attacker was arrested at the station and charges are pending.  

The people who drive the buses already have a union. Now there's a movement afoot to create one for TTC riders. In a week punctuated by token hoarding, a fare hike and a six-hour subway disruption comes the suggestion that a transit users' union is the better way to represent riders' frustrations and interests.  

The first phase of a plan to improve transit service to York University in north-end Toronto was inaugurated this morning. A ceremony was held to mark the end of construction for a busway to the university from the Downsview subway station. The $38-million right-of-way for buses is designed to shave seven minutes off a 20-minute trip between the station and the university.  

Everyone needs love, even people who aren't, in fact, people, but over-designed alien glassworks stuck to the sides of historic buildings. Those need love, too. We are pretty sure of this.  

TTC chair Adam Giambrone answers some questions subway riders asked after Wednesday's six-hour shutdown between Bloor and Eglinton stations. Q : Will riders be compensated for their inconvenience? A : Not as a fare refund, says Giambrone.

When a situation like this occurs, our first priority is to manage the situation safely, get people home. We did offer alternative transit. It wasn't ideal for people. There's no way of measuring who was there   -Adam Giambrone

 

A SCARBOROUGH mum says she was left in the cold after being unable to board a bus in the town centre. Wendy Carter and 14-week-old son Jenson had hoped to get on the Cayton bus after a shopping trip in the town centre. But the bus that arrived at 1pm had steps, not a low floor, and Wendy was unable to get her pram on board.  

The Toronto Transit Commission approved on Tuesday a fare hike which will take effect Jan. 3, 2010. The increase adopts the recommendation made by the transit's staff on Nov. 4. Under the approved fare, the increase would range from 25 cents for adult cash fare to $3.95 for a Greater Toronto Area pass.  

The road construction that spurred yesterday's TTC meltdown was done at the request of the City of Toronto and after city hall issued a permit to do it, Enbridge said today. "A contractor was conducting emergency work for Enbridge to relocate a natural gas pipeline at the request of the City of Toronto. This is relatively standard work in the city," said Debbie Boukydis, director of public and government affairs of Enbridge. The TTC suspended service on a portion of the Yonge subway line yesterday aft  

"Due to ongoing negotiations with stakeholders," says the design approval document, "surface facilities are not at the same level of development as the below ground structures." All we know is that there will be a parking lot and an entrance, which is sort of obvious, and a GO Transit and York Regional Transit bus terminal somewhere in that big L-shaped gap. No reason's been given for the failure of imagination: just a note that "the concept is still under development with input from GO and YRT," along