Spectacularly frustrating perhaps. After living at Queen and University, I'm surprised how much traffic is out here. Busses are too cramped and won't encourage public transit use. Everyone knows this but are willing to look the other way cause it's Scarborough. A subway would be overkill...as it...

From around 9am, toward end of morning rush hour. This is fairly typical Sheppard traffic heading west into city in the morning, photographed just east of McCowan. The evening looks similar except the car lights are red.

Great map brainfreezed. Your vision recognizes the network value of Transit City, that people across the city need transportation not just those living in the core. Hopefully Transit City and the Downtown Relief Line will be the next two projects completed. Just my opinion, but I think a subway...

Thanks for the correction Rainforest. I think you are right and I have corrected the post.

Passengers During Peak Periods Bus: 50 Existing non-articulated Streetcar (CLRV): 74 Transit City Suburban Vehicles (Bombardier Flexity Outlook): 200 with 50 seated T1 with 6 cars: 1,000 crush load Toronto Rocket (T35A08) : 8% more, i.e. 1,080 References: TTC and Transit Toronto

A number of technology comparisons will show you that BRT and LRT capacities converge at the lower end. The decision is about promoting transit use and building for the future. In both of these cases LRT wins hands down. Why would you want to create the need to transfer at Agincourt when...

Buses for Scarborough you say. Hmm, sounds like a familiar tune; give a dog a bone. Scarborough's population in 2006 was essentially the same as the other old boroughs of North York and Toronto. It's density is very close to North York's. Guess which is growing the fastest?

Whether the Sheppard line of Transit City goes ahead as LRT or a subway, I think the more important aspect is that it travel all the way to Markham Rd, preferably Morningside Rd, before looping back to Scarborough Town Centre. Instead of just linking another mall, the city has the opportunity to...

You could say the same thing about a full fledged subway going to a parking lot in exurban Vaughan. The money may be better spent elsewhere. In terms of the Sheppard East LRT, I suppose if any of the city, province or federal governments want to be tarred with canceling jobs by reneging on a...

Sheppard East LRT will get built for additional reasons than just the funding agreement that does exist between Toronto, Ontario and Canada for it's completion. One only need examine the earnestness of the messaging by all three levels of government as of late: "The Government of Canada...