Honestly, I never thought I'd see this happen ... especially in light of the billions being spent on subways across the GTHA. Colour me surprised and happy!

It's a streetcar line extension, albeit one segregated from traffic like the Waterfront is currently.

Had y'all seen this before? I didn't realise that Hawkins/Brown were the lead architects on the project - there's some info and renderings on their website here. They're well regarded in the UK for transport architecture - lots and lots of experience.

Onboard of T9 in Paris which opened in 2021, worth a watch. You can see the dedicated transit signals throughout (and the flashing signals that indicate awareness of the tram, and that the signal is about to change - so operators can go at full speed towards a "stop" signal, knowing that a...

A positive article from Jarrett Walker on the opening of the line - the key point being A great point worth making - Toronto has a crosstown rapid transit line at last! An alternative rapid way to get east west if Line 2 is down...

Have really enjoyed seeing all the opening day festivities from the UK - and all your thoughts and observations. Not often that 19 kilometres of new rapid transit opens! I do wish the orange colour was used a little less ... sparingly - some of those plain walls could have been livened up by...

This is completely incorrect - the City of London has around ~670k workers in the week and Canary Wharf has around ~120k, and that's before you've even considered the West End ( government (around ~100k workers), tourist attractions like theatres, Europe's busiest shopping street (Oxford St))...

You have a source for this?

[citation needed] NYC has a target of 2040 for a 100% ZE fleet, with over 80 electric buses in service and nearly 1,400 on order London will have a 100% ZE fleet by 2034, over 2,000 electric buses in service Moscow has over 2,500 electric buses in service Paris has over 1,100 electric buses in...

Having lived in Pitman and then studio apartment style student accommodation when I was back in the UK - I much preferred the sense of community I got in Pitman, living on a floor with loads of others!

Still a little gutted that TMU dropped the student residence from their Science building - but any more student accommodation around the campus is a good idea for sure.

In the Transit Network Expansion Update going to November 3 TTC Board - an interesting tidbit of the TTC being proved right when they said the Metrolinx design for the Scarborough Centre bus terminal was too small...

Sure, thanks! Makes me think of the pain that Crossrail had at getting the Paddington auto-reverse to work. The asterisk probably applies there too - basically, the train leaves Paddington in GoA3, drives into the siding automatically and then resets itself before driving back to Paddington in...

Just so I get this right - Line 5 Eglinton will be GoA 2 (automatic train operation, similar to Line 1) in the tunnelled section and GoA 1 on the surface. In the yard, it will be GoA 4 (unattended train operation?