How about video footage of the Martians in question. Will that meet your threshold of belief?

The Flexity Freedom is virtually identical to the Flexity 2 and they could easily have been branded as a single product line if Bombardier had wanted to. The main difference between the Transit City fleet and the Flexity 2 vehicles (already in late stage development for Blackpool and the...

That's exactly how an EA works. The proponent has to demonstrate to neutral, objective staff at the Ministry of the Environment that: - all the impacts of a transit project on the natural, built and cultural environment have been properly accounted for - if necessary, viable mitigation measures...

You're forgetting the surrounding land use. Hunter is slab-dab in the middle of a 200-year-old downtown core, in walking distance to office buildings and other destinations. West Harbour is beside a low-rise mature residential neighbourhood, quite isolated from most of the rest of the city...

No, you're misreading the text/graphic. It shows: during rush hour, Hunter St. has 15 minute frequencies in the peak direction and West Harbour has only 30 minute frequency in the peak direction (Advantage: Hunter). also during rush hour, Hunter St. has 60 minute frequencies counter-peak...

So you're arguing that because of the "subways subways subways" derp, the public won't ride something with an upper deck, so that's what we should plan around? The single biggest reason you don't see double-decker subway trains in the world (underground RER in Paris and other RERish...

You're mistaken. The RER plans have made clear that Hunter Street will continue to be the main GO hub for Hamilton in the future --- it will receive hourly AD2W trains and continue to have more rush hour service than West Harbour.

:confused: Last time I checked, the word "Hamilton" is included in the name of the main station in the area.

You have a pretty generous definition of "hub" --- at Bloor, the Barrie tracks are too far from the Kitchener/UP/Milton tracks to function as a single transit station, but too close to really get a unique local catchment from each other. Instead, they're in this awkward middle state of being...

Right, but a new Barrie line GO station at Bloor with a longish-but-plausible connection to Lansdowne subway station is a solution to a different problem than the alleged "problem" that's been raised by some posters here. If we take it at face value that there is a "hole" in the transit...

I'm sorry, but calling an area 900 m from a subway station, 1 km from a frequent dedicated-line streetcar, at the intersection of two "frequent network" bus routes a "transit dead zone" is ridiculous. If meeting your definition of "transit-served" means GO trains must stop every 800 m, then...

Er, no. The RER plans that have been released have shown the primary Hamilton station will continue to be Hunter, and the split at Aldershot will continue. Er, no. Gormley extension is under construction. Bowmanville extension is not funded.

It probably makes more sense for them to connect only after the second phase is complete and the PATH under York is functioning as a north-south thoroughfare up to TD. Picture the following scene if it were open this winter: GO train pulls into Union in the morning without a Bay concourse. A...

I really want this to succeed, but let's not forget we're talking about a location very much in the same catchment as St. Lawrence Market. While the take-home-veggies-to-905 segment is net new and wouldn't be being poached from St. Lawrence, there's a lot of overlap for the residential side...

There already is a limited stop bus between Humber and the airport. The frequency is kinda meh and they cut it back to Westwood Mall after the school year winds down, but there's the beginning of something there. Mentioning the 107 made me wonder if a better LRT route might be had if by...

Not pointing fingers at anyone in this thread, but I find it frustrating how continuously uncritical Waterloo Region transit advocates have been when it's come to the merit of an LRT extension to Cambridge. I challenge anyone to convince me that converting the planned BRT to Cambridge into an...

Hi there, ehlow Why don't you like me, ehlow? [Edit: Argh, Adjei beat me to the punchline. Let us fight antirubbertireist prejudice together ;) ]

Looks like all-day Hamilton service will run out of the existing Hamilton GO Centre (TH&B station on Hunter St.), not James North, and the existing station will continue to be the primary station in terms of peak frequency. From MTO:

It's *IN* the Skywalk, but closer to York than Simcoe.

^"I personally commuted between these city-pairs for a brief period once upon a time and transit wasn't competitive with the car, ergo spend public money to the order of 9 digits"