I suspect that was a date provided by Metrolinx. Not because it'll take the Presto programming team that long but because 3rd party requests are almost always their lowest priority.

That depends on how it's framed. A 15% cut in per-passenger operating costs might be achieved by lengthening trains while keeping the same number of staff; it depends on whether they can sell the additional seats or not. Faster travel times the longer trains allow would help with costs too. I...

I missed this piece and was only thinking of electrification restrictions. Yes, changing where the trains run would obviously have a significant impact on support requirements.

I presume this is an electrolysis corrosion concern? The added weight seems negligible even for overhead rail.

The irony in that statement is the best selling units right now [couple dozen per month] are the most expensive. Agreed, almost nobody wants 750 sqft for $1.2M but they have a small chance of selling 1500sqft for $5M in a better location.

https://www.flightaware.com/live/flight/POE9807 It was a flight. Could have been any number of reasons the aircraft was at Pearson, from a diversion to aircraft maintenance. AFAIK their Pearson maintenance facility opened in July, mostly for the jets but perhaps they help with backlog on Q400's...

Very soon indeed. @interchange42

Doug has argued [mostly as a city councillor*] that subways, because they're underground, do not disrupt life on the surface during construction. It's possible he actually believes that you could build additional 401 lanes without traffic restrictions on the existing roadway. * The Spadina...

You say City Top Priority like the city has a choice in the matter. The provincial government makes applications to the feds and federal programs need really broad rules so all provinces can take part. Some provinces ask for input from the cities and has the city execute the work BUT if there...

I enjoyed that typo.

They can also be fancy and run 2:30 headways in the central/tunnelled portion and a 5 minute headway on the surface section. Torontonians have few issues with overlapping/branched service seen on numerous routes.

Worse, they're regional technical terms. Even TTC Line 1 and GO Trains are light-rail in much of Africa; heavy-rail carries coal and aggregate.

It's 43km from Long Branch to Rouge Hill GO, so that would be 2.8km between stops. This is on par with Paris RER stop spacing of 2km to 3km. I think that's a Toronto shortcoming rather than a Chicago overbuild.

I've been less impressed by their subway operations. The map looks great but actual service varies significantly by line; though it doesn't help I tend to visit on weekends. Yellow or Pink line Sunday service [roughly 15 minute frequencies] is on-par with Lakeshore GO sunday service. Toronto's...

There's some freshly exposed dirt in a number of locations today. They're definitely testing the lots directly east of the Rogers building.