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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    As with the other east-west lines, a significant percentage of riders will be going towards downtown. So the Ontario Line, Stouffville Line, and Kitchener/UP Express will go a long way towards alleviating capacity concerns on Eglinton.
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    Scarborough RT Conversion To Park

    The at-grade portion would be useful to expand the Stouffville line further, even if that's not needed in the near future. A third track would enable express trains. The extra capacity could also be used by HFR if it ever happens and uses that route.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    You may be under the mistaken impression that municipal boundaries have anything to do with numbered mass transit lines.
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    East Don Trail Project

    Two cyclists enter. One cyclist leaves.
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    Canada and the World

    The downplaying of our population is largely a consequence of us being next to the US and the resulting national inferiority complex. But we're closer to the European powers than people tend to think. We have the same population as Poland (with a lot more money) and close to 2/3 the population...
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    Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

    Worries about increased congestion and emergency response times have no basis in reality. Bike lanes and road diets generally don't make traffic worse. People tend to think of traffic as a fixed number of cars that need to get through a space. But it doesn't work that way. The way we design our...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    I don't think it's a given that HFR will skip downtown Montreal in favour of a suburban station. I recall that the Alstom proposal showed the line going downtown and doubling back to go around the mountain on the way to Quebec. I'm not as familiar with Montreal as some of you but it seems like...
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    2022/24 Russian-Ukrainian War

    Anyone who thinks that Russia would stop trying to conquer the rest of Ukraine if the West gave them the occupied territories is hopelessly naive.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    Yeah that's pretty much it. If you have higher speeds then you can carry more people with fewer trains. Sure you could add more trains to a slower line, that will cost extra.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    You can add vehicles when the trains are going faster too. All else being equal, speed does increase capacity.
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    Did the train enthusiast group member take a photo of the LCD screen on the camera the original photo was taken with? Fascinating. Of all the ways to post a picture, that sure is one of them.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    Reducing speed does reduce capacity. If a train doubles its average speed then it can make a trip twice as often, doubling its capacity. That's an oversimplified example but the principle applies in the real world. An on-street LRT that doesn't have to wait at red lights will get to the end of...
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    Cycling infrastructure (Separated bike lanes)

    I used to be with it. But then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it. And it sounds weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you.
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    General cycling issues (Is Toronto bike friendly?)

    Just to put some numbers to it, Toronto on average gets 122 cm of snow every year. Montreal gets 210 cm. But Montreal has nothing on Barrie, which gets 286 cm every year. Toronto gets more snow than people tend to give it credit for though. We get roughly the same about as anywhere in the Prairies.

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