The only reason to build an underground tunnel would be to tear down the Gardiner afterwards. There simply isn't enough room on the roads to absorb cars from two expressways into downtown.

Yeah I'm sure the small number of residents in each condo tower will overwhelm the system. Not. People really need to stop overestimating how much actual transit demand a small condo building generates. The zoo will not be bring much. The 194 failed pretty spectacularly and that was an...

No I am not kidding. A lot of people just lack any sense of numbers and scale.

That was a political decision not a transportation one. Eglinton west barely qualified BRT let alone subway.

75 seconds? Funny stuff. Toronto 6-car subway trains at that headway would theoretically have a peak line capacity of almost 53,000 pphpd.

Everything I have seen in print said 50m platforms. If the trains are oversized to 60m I could see 500 per but not at 50m. If the branches are really single tracked, I have to ask why. Not only shoe box sized stations but constrained terminals. The way that guy from BC keeps coming in here...

Assuming 300 per train and maximum 40 trains per hour (90 second headway) the Canada Line will do 12,000pph. That's lower than what Eglinton would be capable of if it were to be run at the same frequency in the grade separated portion at least. Money-wise if people want cheap, they can go cut...

Whether the scheme ends up being island or side platforms for boarding, the space for it has to come out of something else and that something else would probably end up being the already narrow sidewalks along most of the street. It's not an idea I would support.

Would you make the same argument for eliminating transit fares on the TTC?

If Ford were 200 lbs, he'd still be a jackass. A 200 lb one instead of a 300 lb one but still a jackass nonetheless. The schadenfreude is strong with this one.

Road tolls aren't taxes. They're user fees. That refrain should sound familiar to Ford budget supporters. Except that it is a tax, when it's a fee on something you like.

Yes that came up last time someone trotted this idea out and it's still just as ridiculous. There is simply no space along most of King and Queen for that arrangement; you'll need platform space as you can't exactly have one direction unload passengers into a live traffic lane, streetcar or car.

Agree with solution looking for a problem. Our street grid isn't really ideal for this type of arrangement. Also it bothers me that there's always some light bulb recommending this arrangement for Queen or King... yeah a good idea if you want to kill those businesses that depend on convenient...

Why do all the renders show only lone cars instead of the 2-car trains that will actually be operated? If they wanted an easy way to distinguish these from the downtown cars, it would be this.

I thought the GO numbers in TBM were very rosy were they not? ...and just to kick the dead horse again: Cost to complete Sheppard as subway today: $4,700,000,000 Assume annual ridership doubles from 16 million to 32 million immediately... Using the same useless formula, that's $147 per...

Subways for suburb to suburb commuters don't make financial sense. They will lose way too much money. Then again if people want a 5-10% tax increase to subsidize the overbuilt gold-plated service, maybe but not before more pressing priorities are met. By the way, hasn't population and...

Doubtful. The faithful will just froth at the mouth for more blood. The unbelievers will be convinced that he's leaving out facts. I'm of the opinion that Ford has enough of a reputation for not telling the whole truth when prompted for me not to give him the benefit of a doubt. As for...

It's not ignorance. It's reality. There is not near enough "middle class families" there to justify borrowing $9 billion just to save them 20 minutes a day on a commute. Where is your fiscal conservative bent now? It's laughable that you'd bring up the 85. If those numbers are to be the guide...

Yes, if you factor in the level of pedestrian and auto traffic around Union.

Who cares? No one is traveling between Yonge and STC during peak periods. The people on the 401 are not traveling between Yonge and STC during peak periods. Who cares?