Even stranger that people stand out there to catch the Eglinton bus heading west. The times if day I take that bus it is always packed and so practically impossible to get on. I am baffled by the disappointed expression on people's faces. The only excuse I can think of is that they are from out...

I bike as my main means of transportation, except during a deep-freeze if the journey is longer than 30 minutes, so I haven't been biking as much this winter. So I am not a casual cyclist. Apparently I'm in the minority in this city but I think that allowing e-bikes to use bike lanes is a...

Setting aside the scandals for a minute, politically, opponents of the Fords can learn a few things from them about grabbing the attention of the apathetic general public. Pretty much everything they say is short enough to fit in a headline and said in plain english. They have a handful of easy...

Unfortunately at least in the core it seems like there aren't opportunities to add traffic island stops, the streets are just too narrow. In most cases the sidewalk is already as narrow as it can possibly be. If the city is going to improve streetcar service it will have to be with restrictions...

It would probably make sense to crowdfund a campaign to remove Ford via PR campaign along the lines of Moveon.org. Essentially it would give voice to the "anyone but Ford" crowd, and could engage in direct personal attacks on the Fords that serious mayoral candidates might shy away from at the...

It is a common misconception that a lot of crime is perpetrated by immigrants. Many recent studies show (too lazy to look it up, sorry) that immigrants tend to commit fewer crimes on average, probably because most of them are here to escape poverty and corruption in their own countries, and the...

Because it wasn't so long ago that land lines were considered practically a necessity, I assume that land line use correlates with age and not much else. In more conventional elections you can usually guess that this means polls will tell you conservatives will get more votes than they actually...

Not sure exactly what Portland's plans are, but Minneapolis is planning multiple ~15km lines. I suppose they may put the streetcars in right of ways outside the core, but it's hard to say. I realize the situation with, for example, Queen St., isn't ideal, but at the same time you can't argue...

From what I can tell most of the cities adding new streetcar lines are exceptions to the barren downtown rule. True, with the exception of NYC, all the US cities I have visited (I haven't been to Portland or Minneapolis, but I have been to DC and Seattle recently) more car-centric and have less...

Some progressive US cities are building out new streetcar networks complete with streetcars running in mixed traffic saying that it is good for business and helps to calm traffic, in addition to simply being the preferred option for local public transit. I don't think it's a stretch to imagine...

My councilor is one of those noncommittal middle-of-the-road types. He also flip-flopped on the Jarvis bike lanes (eventually voting to remove them) and on the SRT. I would have voted for him anyway, in case someone worse took his place, but I am beginning to think I can't vote for him unless...

San Francisco's example shows how the DRL could integrate with the existing streetcar network. http://www.200stran.ru/subway_country205_city13553_item1384.html Between Van Ness and the Embarcadero, approximately 4 or 5 km, three modes of transit overlap, including streetcars. Station spacing...

I've been thinking over opinions I have read in various threads (DRL, transit city, new streetcars) - almost everyone seems to agree that subways are always the best option, but because they are expensive sometimes we need to look at alternatives. I have always loved Toronto's streetcars...

Thanks for the link, W. K. Lis. I placed my vote in favour of moving ahead on the LRT. Regardless of the merits of possible plans, if we don't build something now we won't see anything in our lifetimes. I understand why people are skeptical about putting an LRT on Sheppard where there's...

Well said, RC8. One of the reps pointed out that if you make Eglinton into a freeway, people will use it as a freeway - to get from one end of the city to the other - rather than as a neighbourhood. Unrelated - I had heard rumours of the Shaw contra-flow bike lanes but had no idea they were...

I was at the central consultation for Eglinton on Tuesday. I think the plan looks great, so I didn't look very closely at the details. There was one speaker who got a lot of applause who was basically opposed to any change, and seemed to think the best use for the dedicated transit lanes was to...

I stumbled on this thread at stevemunro.ca where a few brave souls defend bike lanes as a transit alternative and Steve puts them in their place. His argument seems to be that cycling is great and all but will never be a substitute for a decent transit system. http://stevemunro.ca/?p=8572 In...

Right, so: 1. We don't know how much additional money the federal government will commit. 2. Days after Ford declares victory for the province's revised subway plan he is seen standing in front of a poster illustrating the city's more expensive plan. 3. All of this is just a week before...

Curious if the TTC might explore the possibility of adding traffic islands, anywhere in the system, for waiting, like the one on the north east corner of Queen at Spadina. If such a thing is possible it would go a long way toward reducing friction with car traffic.

does anyone know if they have to build raised spots for boarding the new streetcars (think Roncesvalles) on streets like queen and king? or assuming they don't have to, do you think they might do it anyway?