She’s already turned over six violin students, each of whom traded their immortal essence for earthly success beyond their wildest ambitions. In Ryka Aoki’s Light From Uncommon Stars, violin teacher Shizuka Satomi finds herself on the horns of a dilemma: As the clock ticks down, she needs to deliver one more soul to the Bad Guy Down Below or else prepare to take the hot seat for all eternity. In the 1700s, he made a deal with Paganini in the 1970s, he went down to Georgia and now the unlikely California city of El Monte offers up the latest additions to his infernal collection. Khurram said political debates about a subway versus an LRT versus Line 3 have long delayed the progress of strengthening and expanding transit in Scarborough.What is it with the devil and violinists? Seems like his thirst for their souls is never slaked. “You can’t just say: ‘We don’t have the money, we’re going to do something else.’”

“This is what the riders said they wanted. Myers said he appreciated the TTC’s initial consultation process for the SRT’s interim replacement, but it needs to be honoured, adding that the busway was the recommendation supported by both parties.

In that instance, the city funded roughly half the cost, and the province and federal government paid about a quarter each, to save students seven minutes. Myers hopes the city can fund some of the capital cost itself, not unlike the funding model for the York University busway that ferried students to and from Downsview station during the development of a subway extension. “Ten of the 13 bus routes that were cut in the most recent budget were in Scarborough.” This month’s report said buses will “continue operating on-street until the existing SRT right-of-way … is converted to a dedicated busway,” or the Scarborough subway extension opens, “whichever occurs first.” It doesn’t include a target opening date for the converted busway, and clarifies the project is subject to funding availability. The option was projected to cost $58.6 million, with a three-year timeline, and would save riders 10 minutes as compared to on-street service. Nearly 40 years old, Line 3 has finally reached the end of its life, and will be decommissioned in November.Ī report to the city’s executive committee on Tuesday proposes a variety of changes to help make the buses that will fill that seven-year gap run more frequently and more reliably - priority bus lanes, queue-jump lanes, exclusive left turns, transit signal priority and stopping and turning prohibitions, to name a few.īut the report does not make meaningful mention of a previous plan to convert some of the SRT route into a dedicated, off-street busway, approved by the TTC board in April 2022. SRT to be decommissioned at the end of 2023īut buses are what Scarborough commuters will have to rely on until the province’s new three-stop subway extension opens in 2030, at the earliest.

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