Focusing on ongoing operating expenses seems like it's missing the big picture. I'm guessing revenues aren't included in that number? Thunder Bay residents benefit from the additional tax revenues and economic gains that new infrastructure generates. Besides, Toronto residents pay for all...

That seems unnecessary. The cost of a handful of grade separations for multi use trails hardly seems prohibitive. They're pretty common where trails cross highways and even city streets. The pedestrian bridge over the 401 in Pickering for example, and quite a few crossing of the 417 in Ottawa...

It's unfortunate that the TTC just refers to GO services at Kennedy and Mount Dennis as "GO". The reader can't tell which line serves those stations so its usefulness is limited at best. The new subway announcements are the same - "transfer to GO Transit". Well okay, but what GO transit? Which...

Let's hope you're right about 2029. I'm not sure I share your optimism. Incidentally, it's now been 25 years since the end of the Auto Pact. Time flies.

Another relatively new LRT is the Valley Line in Edmonton. It's 13.1 km long and if Google Maps travel times are to be believed, an average speed of just under 25 km/h. I haven't ridden it myself but as far as I can tell it's almost completely at grade and a lot less intrusive on the landscape...

In the other hand, it was a fully covered, mostly indoors connection to the transitway station. So the new LRT station is a downgrade in that sense.

Not to mention the loss of all those Ottawa passengers, who would no doubt vastly outnumber any Montreal passengers gained by marginally decreasing travel time.

The sooner the alignment is finalized and publicly known the sooner we can stop with all this Ottawa bypass talk. There's almost as much travel demand to Ottawa as there is to Montreal. Express trains will almost certainly serve Ottawa just as they serve Toronto and Montreal.

I'll be the one to determine what my point was, thanks. And that point, as I've said repeatedly, is that LRT can deliver a fast, rapid transit style service. Whether you like the result is a different conversation entirely. In other words, I showed that the claim that Toronto is too big for...

I was specifically referring to the parts of Prague that are roughly equivalent to the surface sections of Lines 5 and 6. Thank you. This has been my point all along. The rest is beside the point. Just out of curiosity, was this intended to address my post? It doesn't appear to be directly...

If something doesn't work well then the solution is to make it work well. So you acknowledge that LRT can be fast, which is the entire point I've been making. I'm glad that we finally agree. What I said and your rewording have two completely different meanings. When you're trying to refute...

A friendly suggestion - look up what an order of magnitude is. Toronto isn't even a single order of magnitude denser than Calgary, let alone multiple. And since many larger, denser cities than Toronto are building LRT, it's not obviously true that the overall density of a city has anything to do...

I was responding to your statement "On the issues of cleanliness and perceived safety; one of the problems with most western liberal democracies worldwide is we have no tools for dealing with vagrancy, junkies and public nuisance on public transit." This statement goes well beyond just the TTC...

This is simply incorrect. Large portions of the CTrain are in the street ROW. Especially the blue line, which follows 17th Avenue, the Bow Trail, 36th St, etc. Same story in Edmonton. Surface LRTs in Toronto could have been designed the same way. lol By riding it. The street running trams in...

I'm not sure where you get the idea that it's a copout. I'm simply pointing out that liberal democracies do have the tools to deal with this and that addressing the root of the problem is more effective than the symptoms.