I think one of the big issues for ML is getting rid of the grade crossings. While it may not be a big issue on the outer areas of the service ie on the way to Barrie or Kitchener, for the RER {or whatever the hell they are calling it now} it will become a necessity. Right now, the increases...

I think Toronto is probably the only place on the planet that offers free covered parking at it's transit stations. There should be a minimum $2/day flat rate for ANY of the parking at a GO station so that you don't have surface parking lots packed while the expensive garages are empty. This...

I thought transit workers were deemed an essential service and hence unable to strike? I don't transit workers, regardless of their roll, should be able to strike. It is an essential service that millions rely upon and hence should be viewed the same way as nurses or police. This doesn't mean...

There is also, of course, Woodstock/Ingersol to the east and Strathroy to the west. Strathroy, in particular, would be a very well patronized service as the route between the two is not a direct one. Even anemic VIA gets from Strathroy to London in just 20 minutes while one would never even...

Calling this a "service" to London is an insult to transit service everywhere and obviously Londoners think the same. Right now, 20 to 25 people board the train at London and even if that doubles that represents 0.01% of London's population. That's really going to make a big dent in London's...

So you mean to tell me that Eglinton & Finch "rapid transit" lines will warp out at just 50km/hr?

One way VIA could save a crap load of money is by bringing some sanity to it's business model. That would mean getting rid of every single route outside the Corridor and only offer service if it can be reasonably justified ie only peak summer service.

Curious...............what's the speed limit on Eglinton?

It will take longer for a commuter system like GO to recover its ridership and this is similar to what has happened in nearly every other city with their commuter rail systems. Commuter rail is very much focused on getting people from the suburban homes to downtown offices. White collar work...

This the problem with trying to build consensus thru bureaucrats.....................they try to appease every one and the end result is that they please no one. Yonge is an embarrassingly ugly and pedestrian unfriendly street and this sad sorry excuse for a revitalization won't change that...

What a farce. They are wondering about the security of their jobs when every transit system in the country {including the TTC} are desperately short of drivers? Spare me. I think the real reason behind such a stupid stance is that the TTC Board encouraged them to take the stand to give the TTC...

^^^ One of the primary reasons why streetcars back-up is because the stops are so close that the light coordination can't work to it's full potential.

Curious...................IF HFR ever happens, how are they going to negotiate thru ML owned track when trains could be running every 5 minutes at rush hour and making many stops along the way?

If a few people complain to their local counsellor that they are so many streetcars that it's backing up traffic, does that mean the TTC should cut back service to placate them?

One of the easies and cheapest ways to move the streetcars {and buses for that matter} is to get rid of some of the stops. Stops spacing along some routes is truly ridiculous. They slow down the vehicles and make light coordination/priority far more difficult to implement. Except in commercial...

They don't have to ban all left-hand turns but rather do things like LA with it's LRT. They created many left-hand U-turn routes along their entire corridors. These are light controlled so when there are no trains coming from either direction the special left-lanes allow cars to cross over the...

Is this project really going to be necessary? Once the OL gets built way more than half of all riders going downtown which transfer at Pape and added to this due to GO RER {assuming fare integration} fewer longer-medium distance riders be heading to the B/D line in the first place. Seems like...

Of course, all this is academic until they actually get the electric locomotives. Are these new locos going to actually be new or will they take the current ICE ones and switch them over to electric or a combination of the 2?

I have always been a big supporter of BRT because some of these LRT lines won't be any faster than a BRT but cost several times more and take much longer to build. The difference between LRT and BRT in terms of operational costs have also greatly diminished with battery buses getting rid of the...

If Metrolinx has any sense {which admittedly is a long shot} they will do what I recommended earlier and go full tilt on one particular line to get it up and running by 2024. The faster they get individual lines running the faster they will see the financial and operational benefits of...