What is required by law does not necessarily correlate with what is safe. Do you have any actual direct quantitative/statistical evidence that rolling stops cause accidents?

More connections across the CN rail corridor, the 407, and 404 should are definitely needed, there's just so many barriers in this area. I know there's plans for a connection between Colossus Dr and Interchange Way but it would be really nice to see a connection across the 407 west of Jane...

View from the north highlighting Transit City 1-3 (cross post from Transit City thread)

Thought it would be a good time to put my VMC future 3d model here today to avoid thread bumping... Transit City in context: More on my thread: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/vmc-future-3d-model-rendering.32254/post-1754662

This is what Mx should be advertising instead of their pointless “transit is happening!” “we’re building world class transit” ads

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Does the signal have to be before the switch? And the one for the north track can still be moved, no? It seems a bit silly to block off a road and move the platforms further away from the LRT transfer because of a signal.

New angle today! An aerial view from the south. (no updates to any buildings)

I think it’s a good thing that Hurontario LRT is not extending to Lakeshore. From a transportation network perspective, it makes more sense for buses (or any future higher order transit) on Lakeshore to detour the couple hundred metres to the GO station, and for the GO station to be the...

Can the signals be moved further west?

Seriously, stop. Weather is *not* some kind of thing that makes above ground rail unviable like you suggest. SRT winter problems are due to LIM tech plus the ancient trains which can’t be replaced easily due to the sharp curve at Kennedy, which is completely irrelevant to the conversation. Line...

Also why is the area between the curb and the outside track not grass? European green track for reference: (Paris and Amsterdam)

How is that a more "logical" alignment? The only benefit seems to be saving maybe 1 minute in train travel time, at the cost of more underground construction (higher cost), stations located further away from most new development, and a much worse transfer to the RH GO line. And how is whether...

Reconstruction is different from resurfacing, reconstruction is pretty much rebuilding the entire road. Resurfacing is just replacing the top layer of asphalt, and happens much more often (25-35 years in Toronto).

Comparing the Davenport Diamond to the Gardiner Expressway/Allen Rd is just disingenuous. Allen Rd/Gardiner involved literally obliterating neighbourhoods and sticking in an absolutely massive new highway that never existed before. Elevating a section of existing railway is not even close to...

With a lot of trees and nice buildings, a wide road is maybe manageable in an urban context (though still inferior to smaller roads), but it's really, really difficult to make the intersection of two really wide roads feel urban. Even Parisian boulevards fail here. Six Points has 3 giant...

Sooooo close! Medians, properly separated cycle tracks, even protected intersections! This is amazing. Only a few more small details to fix: - 2.1m sidewalks should be reduced to 1.8m (minimum AODA requirement) in favour of 2.0m cycle tracks - There's sometimes a weird buffer between the...

Would you rather walk, shop and eat there, or here? What about here? There's a reason there is essentially zero retail or restaurants facing Lake Shore/Gardiner.

Yes! This has to be the biggest failure of this project. Being next to a traffic sewer is just not pleasant - noisy, polluted, dangerous. No matter how nice North York Centre may be, King Street is just better, and the centers of Copenhagen or Amsterdam are even better. Attempting to build a...

OK clearly I glossed over that post. But in any case, the arguments for OL vs RL and against ECLRT are completely different. ECLRT is using the wrong technology for its purpose. You pretty much never see low floor LRT used in long subway tunnels, especially when building a brand new line. Low...