Cutting what close? This is for the ECLRT station, which is going to go right where the vacant Canada Post building sits today. Technical design is nearing 60%, SPA submission is going in shortly, and demolition and shoring permits are right around the corner. The ship has sailed on the SRT...

Well, firstly, in well designed parking-protected bike lanes there's a buffer zone wide enough for passengers to open their doors without hitting cyclists. However, if there isn't, I'd sure as hell rather have to ride/fall/crash onto the sidewalk than into a lane of live traffic if I got doored.

I think the ship has sailed on this thing. A lot of man hours and money have been poured into designing the Kennedy LRT station, which will be underground at that location, with the portal to the west of Kennedy Rd, crossing right where they put the realigned station box. Unless they plan on...

Because seatbelts prevent a huge amount of wasted money in the form of externalities - to the health care system and lost productivity, etc. So many studies have been done showing that bicycle helmets don't necessarily increase the safety of the rider that this can't possible be used as an...

You can talk about moving one department or something, but these departments don't work in silos (as much as critics would have you believe that), being in proximity to the people who you need to work with has serious advantages. There's a reason why companies cluster in downtowns, for example...

And so does the City of Toronto... already... (all over the city - including Scarborough Town Centre)

So we have to walk to the bike lanes now, if we don't have a helmet? And please, I think you'll find the vast majority of points in your "downtown core" which is significantly more than a 5-minute walk from a bike lane. And even if you do find one, there's no promise that it goes in the...

Huh? Misread my post? I tend to think the whining about fare evasion on this board and on Twitter is extremely disproportionate to the fare evasion that actually happens.

LOLOLOLOL. So, essentially you're proposing to rending BikeShare entirely useless? Have you seen the hodgepodge of bike lanes in this city? They don't connect to one another, they end abruptly, and they don't go to anyone's final destionation because we insist on building them on side streets...

Are they wondering that? I haven't seen any indication of that, other than pure conjecture in here and on Twitter. I'm sure they have a plan and know what they're doing. Like the poster above says, rolling out the Metropass on Presto right now would be foolish since you can't even access every...

Do they charge different base fares? Or does the system charge a base fare for GO, then figure out how much to add or deduct when you tap off based on which zone you're in? (ie, not directly related to the route or bus)

Eventually you will be able to have a Metropass equivalent loaded onto your card - whether that's an upfront purchase, as it is today, or cap on monthly fares, is yet to be decided, as far as I know. The Express bus thing is annoying. I'm not sure if Presto has the capability to charge 2 fares...

The way I see it, the people who want to evade the fares will always find a way to do so. I believe most of us are fair and willing to pay what we owe.

Am I just really naive for thinking that really not that many people will just jump the gates because they're shorter now?

The old fare gates at Donlands Station entirely disappeared overnight. New gates seem imminent.

Here's what I'm talking about. This is the Scotiabank entrance.

I'd be curious to see what the lifecycle costs to run a network of frequent peak feeder buses to these stations, vs say the cost of building, operating, and maintaining an expensive parking garage. They say in the UT story that a garage has a usable life of 20 years. I don't know the exact...

I've seen it once, right where that picture was taken. But yeah, that particular lane isn't a huge problem spot for parking - but it certainly is everywhere else in the city.

Well, there were gaps on the edges, where the dimensions of the new gates didn't fit properly between columns and walls. It's more prominent at the Scotiabank entrance, as there's a column right in the middle, so there's a gap on either side of the column, plus a gap at the walls, just because...

Nice to finally have some bollards there. At the very least they keep speeding cars from encroaching on the lane (especially as the road makes the right hand turn up ahead). Still a big issue in this city of placing them too far apart. A car can easily pull in to park still.