It was originally envisioned to be. North York Centre supports a full Yonge Line, they just needed Sheppard to support half of one, but development moved elsewhere in the city after Amalgamation. They weren't actually favoring the downtown core at the time, quite the opposite. North York Centre...

It was initially reported from the CPTDB that iON would be receiving 2 LRVs, but the second one seems to be deferred. 11 of the 14 LRVs require weld repairs, so this additional LRV will be a spare while said weld repairs occur at the OMSF.

Engineering studies, certain outspoken councilors, 4 separate changes to the plan, priority changes, delays in the opening of other subway extensions, more engineering work, etc. The Relief Line is a project all levels of government support in one form or another...why hasn't that been built?

Ottawa seems to get by just fine with minimal sheltering; similar to the sheltering at Dufferin Gate Loop:

Replace them with presto faregates, it's not that complicated.

Tell that to the 6,000 people that use the station daily. But in all seriousness, this is great news and the TTC really should have looked to closing stations earlier.

Depth of the tunnels in some sections, probably the soil conditions (a quick google search says it's Clayey Silt till which is awful for building structures and large bore tunnels), and the difficulty associated with building island platforms. It's only being used on Scarborough because that...

100K people using it initially, to 130-150K people using it daily in 20 years is close to the number of cars that traverse the DVP daily. For context, an approximate amount of GHGs that are released from cars using the DVP daily is 130T of CO_2 per day or 40kT annually For the tunnels, you're...

It actually does, at least within Toronto. Extending the subway up to Richmond hill opens up the Finch Tail tracks for short-turning service, and shifts the main turn-around points to Highway 7, creating a huge buffer zone along the Yonge line for trains to wait, the length of which is not in...

Don't get me started on the Crosstown...At least the technology is mostly right for Finch, Jane, and Eglinton East.

They don't necessarily cost a fraction of what they cost here. For example, They're cheap in SOME European cities because you don't have to deal with deep building foundations, and your soils are oftentimes more optimal. Paris has almost no buildings above 10 stories for a city its size, meaning...

This report pisses me off so much. Other than the Hamilton LRT and PC Subway IBC documents, I have never seen decision making so ridiculously justified as this. "The combination of Light Rail Vehicle with a CBTC system to provide 20,000 pphpd has not yet been proven in revenue service." ...And...

Obviously, you weren't on this forum during the RL times...there were plenty of detail drawings, site plans, and preliminary documents available to us. You're never going to see all the engineering work involved in a project, but damn, the development was never this hidden.

North America was the gold standard for rail vehicles before Budd Died. ALCO, Budd, GE, Hawker Siddeley Canada, heck even the St. Louis Car Company were all excellent train manufacturers. Not everything from Europe is automatically better. Remember the Pacers? Some Bombardier railcars in...

In terms of older rolling stock: the MP54s, Blueliners, M1s, M2s, M3/M3As, M4s, M6s, Pioneer IIIs, Silverliner II to IVs, Arrow I to IIIs, The Highliners (I and II), South Shore Sharyo EMUs, In terms of modern rolling stock: the M7/M7As, M8s, M9s, Silverliner Vs, They would all like a word...

1 rendering in a Transit City video does not equal tendered design.

But there are geothermal benefits of building stations underground. Temperature's remain around the ground temperature, which is almost always in a comfortable range. It gets worse when crowds show up.

The 77 km quote includes the SRT (Line 3), which is not a subway. Rapid transit? Sure. Subway? Absolutely not. Except you did include streetcars in your initial argument. That section was a refutation of this statement, which in the context of rapid transit makes no sense; streetcars have never...

It's unfair to assume that there will be fewer amenities at a subway/GO interchange than the biggest rail hub in Canada? It's also unfair to assume that climate control measures will be worse at an above-grade station than a large station with 3 fully enclosed concourses? Things are always in...

Politicians have an important role to play in the transit planning process, but power corrupts. All transit agencies have to have some political influence. We've just allowed it to get out of hand. The point is that the TTC has in-house expertise with regards to building and maintaining rapid...