Good point. If the track time is available, then some trains can do direct routing / interlining.

A meaningful option for Canadian travel is to set minimum prices on routes where a viable rail alternative exists. That will both shift some travel from air to rail and provide a certain revenue stability for the major airlines, so they do not get undercut on popular routes like Toronto to...

Not sure; the demand on Ontario Line route will be several times that on the 407 route. Is that so useful to interline.

What makes me laugh is the abundance of people who think that removal of a short stretch of highway while keeping 85% of it in place (counting both the Gardiner and DVP), and replacing that short stretch with a monstrous 10-lane boulevard, somehow turns Toronto into a better city. And theating...

Most likely, the 407 segment will never make it past the sketches. If and when the 407 Transitway is built, it will be a continuous line across several municipalities. OL might connect to the 407 Transitway, but will not interline.

Modernistic hydrogen trains are cool. However if they cost much more than regular diesel trains of similar capacity, then the latter might actually do a better job of reducing carbon emission. If the given pool of money can support either 1 hydrogen train route or 2 diesel train routes, then...

However, the Yonge extension is useful in any case, as it creates a good connection between the central North York and central Richmond Hill. RH GO Trains cannot do that as they divert quite far east from the central North York.

The reason GO Transit didn't want to serve trips within Toronto until recently, isn't so much a jurisdictional divide, but rather the huge capacity mismatch. TTC ridership was so much greater than all of the GO Trains ridership, that shifting even a small percentage of TTC riders on GO could...

In case of bribe-taking, in the form of money or money equivalents, sure. That should be a subject of immunity withdrawal and a criminal investigation. I believe the procedures for that exist already, not sure if they are easy to apply. On the other hand, favor-trading is the way political...

And that, in turn, fails to consider the cost of providing transit and expanding utilities for those new highrises. Plus the fact that they could have been build elsewhere, for example in the vicinity of many midtown subway stations still surrounded by low-rise SFH, if the zoning restrictions...

That's a common pattern in modern cities. If you look at other transit systems with subway backbones, very often you will see very close station spacing in the downtown area, and much wider spacing in the suburbs where feeder surface routes take people to the closest subway station. And the...

I agree with most of routes. Just a few nitpicks: 1. It will be difficult to interline in all cases where you have multiple colors running together. Say, Sheppard West towards York U and VMC: the yellow line tunnel is already built, it will be a challenge to connect Sheppard line tracks. I'd...

It is quite variable. 2 km Bayview to RHC, or RHC to Bathurst, or Dufferin to Keele. Every 500 m between Bayivew and Leslie. https://www.yrt.ca/en/schedules-and-maps/resources/Documents/system-maps/Viva-System-Map_Web_Sept2022.pdf

I don't have a detailed design :) That's why we would need Cedar Fair with their expertise :)

On a more general note, if the emphasis of city LRTs is on supporting local densification rather than supporting longer-range trips; then some routes not included in the old Transit City plan should be considered. A number of N-S arterials are too narrow for dedicated LRT lanes in the south...

I didn't realize the role of oil pipeline. But even with that, oil-handling industries are located north of Finch only, between Tangiers Rd and the point ~ 200 m east of Chesswood. So, minus 1 km on the north side, and no obstacles on the south side. I do not see post-war suburbs as "crap"...

From the density support perspective, the route of Finch LRT Phase 1 (west of Keele) is a decent place, but the currently missing Keele - Yonge segment is even more suitable. Much of that segment can be densified, except the short Dufferin - Torresdale stretch where it crosses West Don and...

Gondola is good .. but why not build a rollercoaster line :) Contract it out to Cedar Fair, they know how to handle that. The public transit version will be a lot longer and a bit slower, but other than that, will build on their rich experience.

Yes, something might be in play here. In the absence of the second/run-off round, opinion polls function as an informal preliminary round. People who dislike candidate X and want X defeated, are likely to abandon their preferred candidate Y if Y is doing poorly in the polls, and switch to...

The southbound ramp from Lawrence is of very little use. Just 2 km to the end of Allen Rd, of which the final 1 km packed with cars trying to exit to Eglinton. I hardly ever see a car on that ramp, either looking from the subway train or driving down Allen. The loss of that ramp won't change...