{"id":33768,"date":"2025-12-30T13:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-17-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:07:12","slug":"news-roundup-for-december-17-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-17-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"News Roundup for December 17, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article_body\">\n<p data-pm-slice=\"0 0 []\">City council approves plan meant to speed up Toronto LRT lines; Toronto\u2019s traffic issues will get worse during FIFA World Cup as city ponders plan; aint on newly installed priority streetcar lanes peeling weeks after being painted; and other news.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/toronto-lrt-speeding-up-intersections-9.7018490\" target=\"_blank\">City council approves plan meant to speed up Toronto LRT lines<\/a> (CBC)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11580546\/toronto-world-cup-traffic-impact\/\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto\u2019s traffic issues will get worse during FIFA World Cup as city ponders plan<\/a> (Global News)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/paint-on-newly-installed-priority-streetcar-lanes-peeling-weeks-after-being-painted\/article_c79589f7-41ea-4f98-9f9c-ffc79d5f0732.html\" target=\"_blank\">Paint on newly installed priority streetcar lanes peeling weeks after being painted<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/toronto.citynews.ca\/2025\/12\/16\/head-of-via-rail-to-step-down-in-january-as-canada-pursues-high-speed-rail\/\" target=\"_blank\">Head of Via Rail to step down in January as Canada pursues high-speed rail<\/a> (CityNews)<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/toronto-council-december\/article_4f4d958c-f5e3-4e7a-b5fc-1dd828e451be.html\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto city council today: reining in e-scooters, keeping tenants cool and hiking luxury home tax<\/a> (The Star)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\nn.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\ndocument,'script','\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');<\/p>\n<p>fbq('init', '1760257484204295');\nfbq('track', \"PageView\");<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/urbantoronto.ca\/news\/2025\/12\/news-roundup-december-17-2025.60073\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">This article was originally posted at Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] City council approves plan meant to speed up Toronto LRT lines; Toronto\u2019s traffic issues will get worse during FIFA &#8230; <a title=\"News Roundup for December 17, 2025\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/news-roundup-for-december-17-2025\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about News Roundup for December 17, 2025\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1088],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-urban-toronto","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/essential.construction\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}