Some good news for London urbanism today. The city council has voted in favour of sweeping new parking requirement changes. All areas along/close to rapid transit corridors and transit villages will no longer have any parking minimums. It also allows a development currently with parking to...

I would have preferred the city go ahead with the Western BRT but this is still a very good investment and one that is way overdue. The current facility is old, small, and decrepit and will not be able to provide maintenance and recharging for the city's new electric fleet which is wants to be...

First, REM is a subway /Metro in every definition of the word, Eglinton is an LRT. Second, GO will not be near as successful in Toronto as REM will be in Montreal because GO has no fare integration with the TTC. IOW, Torontonians will continue to avoid it just like they do now. and the TTC...

Good for Montreal on it's new fare integration. The "zone" system is by far the best of all options. It is equitable, makes sense to the general public, and doesn't require a math degree to figure out your fare.

The reason the downtown Richmond tunnel wasn't built as either a LRT or bus one is due to Richmond Row merchants not wanting it and I agree with them. RR is the city's most pedestrian friendly and beautiful street and is lined by great shopping, a massive number of restaurants and cafes, up...

I never said London doesn't sprawl but then name me one city {just one} in Canada that doesn't. At least London has a clear and enforced urban growth boundary which many Canadian cities don't. As far as rapid transit, London is currently building 24 km of REAL BRT and the western leg which was...

^^^ You're not suppose to say that lest it challenge this preconceived notion that London is a sprawling urban planning wasteland. London is also reviewing it's parking requirements for the first time in 3 decades. The proposal {which is expected to pass council} would see the parking...

London not getting HFR due to politics is not BS. They could twin some of the tracks, build over/underpasses, restart the Brantford by-pass, and run express trains to London/Windsor. The new trains would be fine as the rail route is very direct and only 180km. It would money very well spent and...

That, however, is VIA's fault and not Londoners. VIA is a political apparatus first and a passenger rail service second. The ONLY reason why HFR isn't going to London is because Trudeau decided not to have a single Cabinet Minister from anywhere in SWO but 14 in the GTA. A company that makes...

London is a huge city in sq km but that is due to it annexing a monstrous amount of land south it in the 90s. London comes just shy of bordering St.Thomas. That said, the city has a very strict urban growth boundary and is a medium density city. Anyone who has ever been to London knows that the...

London traffic has always been the amongst the worst in the country. It has no urban freeways, it's roads are relatively thin, it has no road that goes downtown that actually crosses the city, has 3 legs of the Thames that has to be negotiated, and is a major railway juncture and hence is...

I sure as hell wouldn't want a horn going by my place every 8 minutes all day and evening. It would be enough to drive any sane person nuts. Also, as RS3488 mentioned, when the whole system kicks in, traffic at these non-grade separated sections will become a nightmare. It should be a priority...

While the 2nd horn is much more bearable, it does show how over/underpasses are needed on the system. While some may think it's a bit of a waste of money, I certainly don't. Besides being both faster and safer, they also result in a quiet neighbourhood.. It's one thing to have to tolerate a...

I thought it was more than that so I stand corrected. That said, it's even better for a comparison. Metra is definitely the most similar system to GO in NA if not all of the Americas. Both have both commuter only and all day routes, run on former freight lines, are mostly diesel, and radiate...

There is a VERY interesting development at Metra that Metrolinx should keep an eye on. Metra is the Chicago areas commuter & suburban rail system. It has roughly twice the trackage of GO and nearly quadruple the amount of stations. It carries {2019} roughly 25% more passengers per day than GO...

But how would that be any different from a centre running bus lane? I don't think Finch is a waste of money but for what it provides, I don't think Toronto is getting much bang for the buck. Is it better to build an 11km streetcar ROW {which is what this is} or a 30km BRT for the same money...

Dear God is this thing ever going to be slow. One just has to look at the number of stop lights along the route to see this. Finch maybe Light Rail Transit but, unlike Edmonton or Calgary, it will certainly not be Light Rapid Transit. I fail to see the benefits of such systems and much seems...

I've never understood why GO expansion always seems to avoid Brantford. There are a lot of commuters between Brantford & Hamilton and a stop at Dundas would serve McMaster.

The timeline itself may not change but I think you will see ML focusing on one particular line {ie Lakeshore} to get it up and running and realizing those operational savings faster than if they did all the lines at once. Fuel takes up nearly 50% of GO's operational costs and the faster they...

I think you will see the rate of electrification infrastructure and rolling stock happen much quicker than was previously planned. When this contract was sent out and the winner basically picked, the cost of diesel was half what it is now and there is no reason to think it will co me down...