Some photos from today on Yonge:

IMO tunnelling under Downtown Richmond Hill is about as good of an idea as tunnelling under Downtown Brampton

This is looking pretty good! Some good quality curb separated lanes. Some more info https://www.engagewr.ca/downtown-cycling-grid Map (from link above): Renderings taken from link above: Water St. Joseph St Duke St W Duke St E Cedar St Margaret Ave MUT:

Wikipedia says TRs have max speed of 88 km/h and max revenue speed of 75 km/h. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_Rocket

Exo basically owns no important track, only the Deux-Montagnes line which is now being turned into REM and short peripheral bits of the Mascouche, Saint Jerome, and Vaudreuil-Hudson lines. They don't own any of the approaches to the downtown stations either (excepting Deux-Montagnes). Source...

Some pics from today at Bernard. Everything looks to be close to completion and “under construction” signs have been removed. I expect buses to start using the bus lanes soon. Transit signals are operational. Cycle tracks look complete but are currently blocked off using pylons. Only work left...

We're not communist. Price should depend on demand and supply. More congested routes should get tolled more than less congested routes.

I doubt, since the order was only for fleet expansion and replacing the Mark Is, so the existing mark II and III cars would still be in use. Any new order would have had to be compatible with the existing trains.

This is not true. The only infrastructure you speak of is public fast charging stations, which are only necessary for road trips since in all other cases overnight charging is fine, and charging at condos/apartments, which applies to a minority of the population in Canada as most people...

Interestingly, I think you don't properly understand induced demand. Induced demand is literally about how demand for mobility appears out of seemingly nowhere. You see, the problem is that this "There aren't that many places for commuters to come from" is maybe true right now, but wait a few...

First I'd argue UPX, not EWLRT, is 'the' airport link, but ignoring that, there are some examples I can think of for at grade airport links: - Paris-Orly is connected with a grade separated people mover connecting to RER B but it also has the at grade tram line 7, so that's kind of an example...

Sure, it might be their fault, but not everyone is careful all the time. Besides, if the platform is crowded, there might not enough be enough space on a narrow platform. If the platform is narrow and there is a crowd, it's not too hard to imagine somebody standing closer to the platform edge to...

Well, pretty much putting exit ramps anywhere would be better than the current Gardiner. Besides, a Seattle type scenario would also work with no ramps. I'm all for trying to spruce up and improve the space below the Gardiner to improve the pedestrian experience. That should really be...

I really don't think the aim has to be to create some kind of pedestrian shopping/dining street or anything like that. I think you're really missing the whole "park" part of the proposal - it's like rail deck park but way cheaper, in that it creates huge amounts of new green space where it is...

For people who can't find parking anywhere else, I guess, especially people who normally go to Aurora GO. A new Barrie line station at Yonge/Industrial Pkwy with interchange w/ Viva Blue would have made way more sense IMO, but whatever, this dumb waste of money is already built.

I think it would probably be better to turn the GO/YRT terminal into park space and replace a bunch of the parking with park space while we're at it. The transfer between the subway and the GO/YRT terminal is far worse than the transfer to the existing TTC terminal, and also Hydro would no...

That's the YRT/GO terminal, not the TTC terminal. The TTC bus terminal is south of the hydro ROW.

I went through all the comments in the "share your thoughts" section and made sure I gave every comment asking for surface parking a 1 star, lol. Quite a few comments asking for GO station parking, which would be absolutely terrible for urban realm if realized.

https://www.metrolinxengage.com/sites/default/files/ol_ecr_appendix_c1-distribution_list_c2_engagement_summary_report_2020-07-31_locked.pdf It's quite well hidden on ML's website! Took a little bit of digging to find it. Also the rest of the Environmental Conditions report (if anyone's...

What you're basically suggesting is energy storage. Doing it this way is frankly a really terrible way of doing it, there's no reason to use hydrogen in this situation and there would be a ton of energy loss. Batteries and pumped storage is far better.