Renders show bare concrete with some kind of white panel at the top, so...

I thought of roads being more quiet because EVs, but also neighbourhood streets might get more traffic so I think it's not really that much of an impact. - Re: wear and tear, more VMT is going to be more wear and tear, maybe the effect isn't huge but it's definitely there. -1 person pods are a...

I've made a summary of what I think of autonomous vehicles. I've tried to be as comprehensive and objective as possible. First of all, autonomous electric vehicles (which I will refer to as AEVs) in ridesharing fleets are going to disrupt transportation as much as the car itself, perhaps...

I think $1-2B is probably lowballing it actually. The Bowmanville extension is something like 20-25 million 2018 dollars per km, and that's basically just building stations on an existing rail line with maybe a few extra tracks. A new build rail line is going to cost significantly more...

Real-world tests of full-self driving software in snow: Obviously it doesn't work that well in snow currently, but if you followed the progress of Tesla's Full Self-Driving Beta over the past few months the progress is quite astounding. Already works very well in suburban and rural areas in...

Circumferential as in it's going around the city, as opposed to in and out. If it was a branch, then the line might be radial but the branch still circumferential. But, circumferential is just a term, so it's not super important. What's more important is that the route is indirect. For any new...

First of all, the reason most people walk to transit stations is because of the last mile problem. If I can't get to a transit station I'll just drive. As for traffic with AVs: 1. Induced demand 2. There is physically not enough space on the road in many places to accommodate everyone on cars...

I would argue that any form of rail along this corridor is not "reasonable." It's not even on the books, would have terrible ridership, and would be an absolutely terrible use of transit money costing billions of dollars. High quality regional rail is even less likely - the RH line isn't even...

I really don't understand why people are even suggesting TOD - development along this highway is not TOD no matter how we spin it. Even if we build midrises or townhouses we will still be seeing basically no transit mode share here. IMO the BRT is more an effort to pretend they are not doing...

If you go back maybe a few months ago in this thread, I also raised the concern that the OL will basically forever restrict the corridor to four tracks, instead of six, and six will be needed some day. However, I don't think limiting the corridor to four tracks is the end of the world. Four...

I never intended to suggest that we should infringe on people's rights; I apologize if my post had that effect. "Majority rule, minority rights" is a basic principle of democracy that I fully support. However, what I do have a problem with is when a vocal or influential minority ends up...

Huhhh, lets see.. Now, how many people have been ignored... like maybe a few hundred Leslieville NIMBYs max? Now, how many people benefit... lets see.. - pretty much anyone in Flemingdon Park, Thorncliffe Park - literally anyone who uses the OL in Leslieville now that they no longer need to...

Note that real world testing of autonomous cars is already happening in winter climates. Porting the tech to trucks will not be very difficult - the hardest part is recognizing and interpreting everything on the road, not the actual driving of the vehicle. AV cars already get us 95% the way...

^^^ If you go on Google Maps and look around the Netherlands, you see off-road bike trails all over the place. They are usually direct, often grade separated or have signal priority at crossings, and well integrated with the rest of the cycling network. Really, the mentality with these off-road...

But problem is, the T doesn't convey information. If I see a big T on a pole, does that mean a bus stop, a subway station, or a GO station? Not until I walk closer to the sign and see the much smaller bus or train icon do I actually know what it is. Say I'm at Main Street and Danforth Avenue...

? Metrolinx already ditched RER in favour of "GO Expansion" and Paris doesn't use T . . .

There are only a few agencies that use T as an agency logo and put it on all modes of transit. The only ones I can think of are Boston and Minneapolis. Translink puts T everywhere but does not use T as its logo. (Also, Scandinavia doesn't count, because there, T just stands for T-banen/T-bane...

Except... Metrolinx seems to be using the T not to represent rapid transit, but just wants to plaster it everywhere. The T appears on new GO bus stops, and now on ECLRT. This document http://www.metrolinx.com/en/greaterregion/projects/docs/wayfinding/MX_Wayfinding-FactSheet_Jan24.pdf says: "the...

This bothers me a lot. Can we seriously not expropriate a couple of parking lots, shift a couple of tracks, and maybe do a few bridge widenings to add another platform in the middle? Also, the service road on the north side of the station marked as "7" on the map bothers me a lot too. Does...

I don't understand, why can't it just go next to Hanlon Pkwy, or next to Guelph Jct, or next to the Costco or something? Why did they have to choose the park in the first place? And why do they put everything on hold? Seems a bit ridiculous...