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. There are a number of public transportation operators within the Greater Toronto Area providing services within their jurisdictions While these operators are largely independent provisions are being made to integrate them under Metrolinx which manages transportation planning including public transport in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area. GO Transit which merged with Metrolinx during the late 2000s is Ontario's only intra-regional public transit service linking the communities in the GTA and the city of Hamilton as well as the rest of the Greater Golden Horseshoe. Implementation of a 'Presto card' by Metrolinx has created a common means for all fare payments and allows for seamless connection between these and other transit operators Public transit operators in the GTA include Brampton Transit Burlington Transit Durham Region Transit GO Transit Milton Transit MiWay (serving Mississauga) Oakville Transit Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) and York Region Transit the TTC operates the Toronto subway system which runs in Toronto and in Vaughan the latter of which began to be served by the system in December 2017 with an extension of Line 1 to Vaughan Metropolitan Centre station Highway 401 serves as a major roadway in the Greater Toronto Area The GTA also consists number of King's Highways and supplemented by municipal expressways One of the most principal highways in the GTA Highway 401 is also the longest in Ontario and is also one of the busiest highways in the world. Notably a segment of the highway passing through the GTA holds the distinction of being North America's busiest highway the GTA is laced with a number of limited-access highways including the 400-series highways These include:; George Anthony Barber the board's first Local Superintendent and the father of Canadian cricket Rev James Porter the board's second Local Superintendent He worked to increase attendance at Toronto's public schools and reported to Egerton Ryerson on the construction of a new school for the board Elizabeth St School Jesse Ketchum a supporter of schooling responsible for many donations to the board and after whom the current Toronto District School Board school Jesse Ketchum Public School is named James L Hughes principal of the Toronto Normal School's Model School and Chief Inspector for the Toronto Public School Board Characteristics of Schooling in the Toronto Public School Board. The Golden Horseshoe is home to many professional sports teams most of which are Toronto-based These teams include:, Hotel Gresham Palace Conseil scolaire Viamonde (CSV) French first language school board. Vaughan Green tick Green tick In 2011 it was revealed that a TDSB school Valley Park Middle School had been holding Muslim prayer services for students in its cafeteria during school hours the prayer services lasted 30 to 40 minutes and were led by an imam from a nearby mosque School administration were required to prepare the mosque and non-Muslim students attended classes during the prayer sessions and were not allowed in the cafeteria. During the prayers boys and girls were separated by benches with girls placed behind the boys Menstruating girls were prohibited from participating but could observe from the back row the Huffington Post commented:. .
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