I would prefer something that far north as a bypass to Toronto since it wouldn't induce sprawl in the same way 413 would. Something Guelph, Orangeville, Bradford, Lindsay, Peterborough that would allow traffic that has nothing to do with Toronto to stay out of Toronto. Not something that...

Great pictures. Unfortunately they show a site which suggests the boring machine is not active. That is a nice soil sitting facility though. On previous projects they just found a place to dump the whole thing but this looks like something that would put the soil back into other construction...

I find these to close to a match and not easily described. Till now if someone said the purple line I would have assumed line 4. Call me crazy but if colour is going to be part of the way finding shouldn't we be able to describe what we are seeing using a well understood simple description...

A phased approach that was planned from the beginning would have worked, but a phased opening planned late in the game doesn't work when you are not the general contractor. The old delivery method would have had TTC as the general contractor paying for all the little pieces of work contracted...

I wonder how much energy would be lost in the supply chain. The whole path from sourcing the energy, to delivery of the energy, to the use of the energy needs to be clean and efficient. If you used diesel generators to charge batteries, shipped batteries across the country, and then had those...

Hopefully if there ever is it would be found west of the station near Port Union road and not anywhere approaching the River and valley.

Yes but don't waste our time trying to get pictures of the Caledonia GO station construction. The same results can be found from the comfort of your desk by going to Metrolinx - Barrie Line - What are we building and clicking Caledonia station. It isn't to be missed as it really gives you a...

I don't understand what speed and dwell time has to do with floor height and vehicle weight. A subway is heavier, and a maglev is lighter. So we need to make the Eglinton vehicles heavier so they what? VIA Rail has heavy rail with long dwell, and the much lighter REM has a shorter dwell, so...

The reason you zone something as farming is for it to be used for farming. I agree that farm land should be used for farming. All of Toronto was farm land or wilderness before it was a city. Current farm land should be zoned as farm land. There should be no profit in zoning farmland for...

I thought the operating speed of the Eglinton LRT was 80km/h in the tunnel as compared to 75km/h for the subway.

The 906 route to the airport makes sense. The 901 route that directly competes with the UP Express... why?? If the 901 route can be self-sufficient with no funding, then maybe, otherwise get on the phone with Metrolinx to work out a fare agreement

We have a constant pipeline of people through university into tech. They key would be to make it advantageous to do the same in trades. A Baccalaureate of Construction Delivery program where people graduate with the skills to run their own construction business complete with 3-4 trades...

There are two issues which overlap because of investors. One is the negative effects of low interest rates in terms of inflation, and the other is the rate of population growth as compared to housing development rate. Low interest rates took money from the future to put it in the economy now...

I haven't seen any post Line 3, post Line 2 Scarborough extension renderings of the station. One would hope that there is a tear down of the existing building and SRT tracks with the build of a nicer bus facility, allowing the new Eglinton LRT entrances to be the main entrances, and a lot of...

Ok, correction... this is a symptom of why there is a housing shortage. The reality is though, is that there are a lot of threads similar to this one where the project never starts. To solve the housing shortage properties like this one need to be looked at to understand why after 10 years...

Yes. This isn't fare integration. This is leaving all the stupidity of the current fare model in place, and hiding it from the consumer. You get on the bus to go just over 4km from Sheppard to Steeles on the TTC = $3.30 from customer, $3.30 to TTC (transfer stupidly at Finch to a different...

No wonder there is a housing shortage, look at the date on the first page of this thread and look at so many other threads and see the same thing. Toronto and its developers... Experts in the delivery of development study. More housing delivered on paper than any other place in Canada. If...

My surprises from the architectural plans: Good: Bus terminals with some canopy (it would be nice to have a bit more overhang) Bad: No underpass or overpass to get people across streets at Scarborough Centre or Sheppard, not even a basic set of stairs. It is one corner of the intersection...

How is 119 supposed to work? When it was a loop that turned around at Sheppard the one-way Torbarrie the other way Clayson wasn't so bad, but if you want to go to Clayson and the route starts Torbarrie now are you expected to go for a cruise out to Plastic World and back?

Fall foliage, new transit infrastructure, bright red bus lanes, bright yellow platform edges... does it get any better?