It has to do with why Tokyo's transit system is profitable and why Toronto's is not. What exactly are you proposing Toronto emulate from Tokyo that might magically change the composition of the city to something more efficient? Of course we should look at other districts to see what they are...

No, only when you slice it into two seperate projects and look at the one without any historical context do you get anything near "not being asked to contribute one penny". One way to cut it is that Toronto ISN'T getting $4 billion of promised infrastructure spending that once was committed over...

Of course they are private concerns, who heard of a public utility going bankrupt? It costs $5 for a 2-hour pass on the bus and $5 for a trip on the monorail, competitive pricing. Shouldn't a private ventures have more cost-effective urban operations? A local transit system including all...

Which issue are you talking about? Metrolinx is already tasked with an Investment Strategy due in 2013. I suggest you read the strategic overview or the draft report. Have you not suggested it to the Star yet? If not, why do you expect someone else to do the leg work for you? This is...

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The whole system does not have the infrastructure in place to do distance-based billing, so the whole network cannot do so until we have the money to add the necessary infrastructure. Presto will allow distance-based billing and Eglinton will have Presto. That's all I was saying. We have a...

I'd support segment cameras as well. With 817km of Hwy 401, that's just 28 locations (~170 cameras) plus 172 exits (~345 cameras). We were installing "low cost CCTV" systems for £100k, so you could probably install all the needed cameras for $50 million, then just need the IT struture to...

It'd make the morning wait for the elevator different if your "car" could drive up the elevator shaft.

The market for cars is still bright, it's just the appetite for roads to operate them all is limited. Most middle-class families in underdeveloped nations aspire to vehicle ownership, which is behind Tata's $3000 Nano and the projection of a 65% increase in India's car-market. The EN-V is...

Diesel's have issues starting in the cold (which have been countered in modern vehicles with heat traces), but they aren't less effective. However, if all cars/trucks converted to diesel, we'd see much higher fuel costs. I'm in favour of raising the speed limits by 20 km and eliminate the...

Do EMUs have a smaller cross-section than deisel trainsets? If not they the vehicle power source should not have any relationship to the size of the tunnel.

So will you be putting up or shutting up? You seem to live in a world detacted from reality, and the object when reality intrudes. You speak of Toronto as if it were a single mind with a single identity; it's not. The suburban commuter has as much say as the downtown monorail lover. McGinty...

You must be out of the loop if you haven't heard over the last two years that we'd won the games. Why this cultural contempt for a pan-Americas competition compared to the pan-British Empire competition? Do you think the British Commonwealth has any more future than the French Community did...

You are never going to capture the top end of the market, so it doesn't really matter what they do. I was just looking for a way of funding night subway operations with night usage, rather than closing the subways as we do now, making people choose drunk driving, taxis, or overcrowded buses...

The cost per machine isn't too high, it's just that Toronto has 2160 buses. Costs from the system installed to date wouldn't really reflect what a second mobile reader would be, but if it's over $10,000 for modifying each vehicle, it's an extra $22m. Not beyond reason, but not chump change...

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The bus tap off would be an issue due to the extra readers necessary, but you could change it that you tap on/off of the subway and any bus route is considered a single zone journey. So you would charge people MORE for having an inconvient trip? I'm thinking specifically people that bus it to...

I was trying to say that privizing jobs doesn't have as much as an effect on the bottom line as improving efficiency. The 6 min/12 min service headways was just one of the screen lines used in modeling. Historically (1921-1974), extra fares applied by time or distance. Eglinton will have...

If and when Toronto implements PRESTO, they'll have the infrastructure to charge flat rates (TTC), zonal rates (YRT), or distance rates (GO). We had zonal rates until the first amalgamation of Toronto and since then the outnumbering fringe has always outvoted the inner core. It doesn't matter...

I'm assuming part of the difference is in how we each act as tourists. I like to explore cities, so I'll hop on public transit without a destination in mind. If I see something interesting while enroute, and I don't have a deadline, I'll stop and check it out then and there. I'm guessing you...