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Streetcars have been enduring icons of Toronto, and their constant presence on major downtown streets has made them an integral part of the Toronto’s psychological (and literal) streetscape. Postcards and photographs from the interwar period often depict the wooden Peter Witt model, which graced Toronto’s streets for many years.

Larry Partridge, in Mind the Door Please: the Story of Toronto and Its Streetcars and in The Witts: An Affectionate Look at Toronto’s Original Red Rockets, writes that it was the first electric streetcar to be used in Toronto, named after its designer, a Traction Commissioner from Cleveland, Ohio. In 1920, the newly formed Toronto Transportation Commission set out to reform public transit in Toronto. For this purpose, its representatives visited several cities south of the border to investigate the different types of streetcars in use.

Finally, a decent excuse to put off studying.

The Toronto Star has reported that the Reference Library has bed bugs. The pesky little parasites have been spotted in four parts of the building. Feeling itchy yet?

The University of Toronto has partnered with a private equity firm to build a new 0 million student residence facility.

Knightstone Capital Management Inc. has partnered with the university to finance and build the 30- to 40-storey tower. The partnership makes U of T the first university in Canada to construct a building off campus with private money, according to the Globe and Mail.

A student in Sydney Australia has come up with a plan for a totally re-branded TTC. After researching transit systems throughout the world, Tommy Silver decided the TTC was “anything but a proud representation of Toronto.” So he gave it a major overhaul.

Silver made the logo angular and sleek, based on the Toronto City Flag, City Hall, and the shape of the subway map. His redesigned metropasses feature images of the city, specific to the particular month, and he completely overhauled the website. Citing “too much information,” he stripped the site down to the basics and incorporated an iconic Toronto photo as the background.

Toronto police have released a most wanted list in connection with the G20 riots and vandalism that took place on Saturday, June 26. The list — if it can really be called that — is comprised of a series of photos of possible suspects. By and large, these photos were sent in to the TPS G20 investigative team webpage by citizens who witnessed the events on the day in question.

When I strolled through Cedarvale Park last week, it was hard for me to imagine that the leafy ravine was once destined to become polluted and congested with high-volume traffic, much like the mess that is the Gardiner Expressway this summer. But, despite how hard it is to picture today, this would have been reality if 1950s urban planners with a short-term vision for the city got their way.

Cedarvale, which I call home, is an early twentieth-century neighbourhood, built by Sir Henry Pellatt of the nearby Casa Loma, would most certainly have a completely different character should the Spadina Expressway have been built. The Annex, along with parts of U of T’s campus, would have also shared in this fate, and the Spadina Museum (next door to Casa Loma) would have been demolished.

Shortly after Spain defeated the Netherlands 1-0 to take the 2010 World Cup, fans congregated on College Street to celebrate the victory. The centre of the party formed near Bathurst, a little bit east of where Italian fans flocked after their win four years ago. And although yesterday’s celebration was not quite as grand as back then — our Italian community is extensive takes its soccer very seriously — it was still pretty wild. Traffic came to a standstill in the area and TTC streetcars subbed in for stages, which those desperate to prove their fandom climbed atop for the most visibility.

On June 28th, buried deep on the TTC’s website under its construction tab, was an interesting announcement: “On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, streetcar service will resume to the community and local businesses on St. Clair Avenue West between Lansdowne Avenue and Gunns loop.” In other words, for the first time in five years, streetcar service would run the entire length of St Clair. I decided to take a test drive of the newly “complete” line.

Anti-G20 protests continued this Saturday as more than a thousand people marched the streets demanding a full public inquiry into police actions during the G20 weekend.

David Crombie was elected mayor of Toronto in 1972 on the wave of a reform movement opposed to the rapid and often unchecked growth the city was experiencing during the 1960s. Citizen groups, ratepayers associations, and neighbourhood committees proliferated, which were generally supportive of democratic reforms, and opposed to expressways and the zoning of residential neighbourhoods for high-rise development.