Putting aside being able to put up the poles before any other construction, there is no way it should take more than 3 years to electrify 250km of track. All they need due is contract the construction to several different companies at the same time. As for not having any experience, that is a...

You mean to tell me that electrifying just the original RER sections could take up to another decade? Why, in God's name, did they not just put up all the poles as they were building/repairing/expanding current lines and stations or would that have been too logical? If it takes more than 3...

I thought 2032 deadline was for electrification of ALL the routes from Hamilton to Bowmanville to Kitchener? What about just the original RER {why did they get rid of that name?} sections?

Without going thru 100 pages............when will the RER sections of the lines be electrified by?

London is under QP control even more so than Toronto but it managed. Saying it can't be done is a cop-out for Toronto politicians and nothing more. Municipal zoning is under the control of the cities and they can change those codes and in/decrease property taxes for different uses anytime they...

^^^^^ Conversely, reducing/eliminating parking requirements while adding taxes onto the property tax bill for every parking spot would allow developers to sell some of their parking land for infill projects. It would allow the developers/businesses to sell that parking land for a king's ransom...

Of course Toronto has the ability to tax parking spots, every city in the country does. The city sets municipal tax rates so all they have to do is add the tax per vehicle spot onto their yearly city tax bill. It does not require a sales tax in the slightest. Needless to say, all parking...

I don't really agree with congestion pricing. It only pertains to a small area of the city so the businesses in the core suffer while those outside it don't have to worry about it effecting their business. In Toronto, it would also be very hard to implement. Most cities that have it are ones...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not "advocating" for battery streetcars, there is no reason to because they are inevitable. The rate of battery technology development is truly numbing and this will increase as ICE vehicles are phased out around the world. In 20 short years they will be vastly smaller...

Interesting article. I think the biggest change we will see over the next 20 to 30 years will be the phasing out of all catenary supply and all streetcars moving over to battery power and, perhaps in very long routes, hydrogen. Overhead wires are ugly, expensive to maintain, and are...

The lakeshore East/West should be top priority.. Full stop. This is for 2 main reasons: 1} It has, by far, the highest ridership levels which means it also has, and probably always will, the highest frequencies. This means that it also has the biggest diesel bills. The faster they get this...

This couldn't be more Mickey Mouse if it tried. They should simply pedestrianize the entire College to King Street section with no bike lanes and no car lanes. Deliveries would be allowed on all sections before 10AM. This is a revamp of a car centric Yonge Street to a slightly less car centric...

Is this ML program strictly for battery buses or for all zero emissions buses in general?

^^^ Not exactly. When I said Luxembourg, I meant it. Not just the city of Luxembourg but the entire country now has free transit and it has a population of 640,000.

Transit is now free in all of Luxembourg. From the different studies I have seen on both free transit system or just one some with particular routes being free, they actually don't really increase ridership significantly. They have found that most of the people taking advantage of it are on...

Some potentially REALLY big news for London. It seems that London is at the top of a potential investment by Boeing. In fact, high executives from Boeing are visiting the city next week and Ottawa has been pushing for this kind of development and especially if it revolves around research...

If there is one city outside the GH that could support commuter rail, it's London. London, unlike Ottawa, has no urban freeways so there is no fast way to get across the city or downtown. From Strathroy to London, it's at least 25 minutes just to get to the city little alone downtown grinding...

It would be very beneficial if Queen's Park remembered that GO stands for Government of ONTARIO and not Gov't of Toronto. QP needs a friendly reminder that most Ontarians do NOT live in the GTA. I can't wait for Ottawa commuter rail to start. Wouldn't it be great to have a single train...

It's kind of rich hearing Torontonians talk about a regional transit service for London. This is the city that has had commuter rail for half a century and has hundreds of thousands of people heading into the city everyday on transit outside it's borders and yet they don't get a plug nickel in...

London already has express rush hour buses.