A lot incorrect here, at least compared to the parking levy proposal that was recommended by Metrolinx. That levy was not going to be applied to residential parking, only to commercial entities and institutions etc. The property owner would see the charge, not the parker. Chances are, if a...

^Sorry, I chose my words poorly. The notional sticker price for the Evergreen line tunnel does indeed go down if you take it out of the Evergreen line DBF contract and turn it into a separate more traditional contract. I meant the "real" price --- net of overrun risk. Switch the tunnel from one...

Evergreen is a PPP (DBF, I think) with tunnelling included in the main contract, AFAIK. Not to single any posters out, but I think there's a lot of confusion in the above conversation. Underground transit construction of any sort (bored tunnels, cut and cover tunnels, stations...) is more prone...

No, they haven't. We've been over this. They said substantially complete, in the context of the major grade separations. There's a single track and a single platform functional at each station. There's peak hour service occupying that one track, and then mid-day they can close it for work...

Except the only person who seems to think all the work required to run more trains is complete now(ish) is you. And it simply isn't. And as soon the line can physically accommodate much more train service per day, I don't think it's automatic that that's the logical instant to stick mid-day GO...

It seemed pretty clear to me that by "substantially complete" they meant that the whole corridor was now grade separated, with the three big multi-hundred-million-dollar megaprojects all now at a point where they were now being used by trains. Someone can correct me if I've fallen behind recent...

Incorrect. The City of Toronto Act doesn't give the City a monopoly over buses, it gives it one over anything that provides scheduled public transit service, whether on tires or rails, with a whack of exemption clauses for things like charters, VIA, school buses etc. But the Province is exempt...

Er, no. There is no such thing as a Metrolinx construction employee. There are employees who work for private construction companies (or their subcontractors), which bid on projects put out to tender by Metrolinx or the TTC or a developer or a municipality or anyone else who's asking. At...

I'll add to nfitz's point by noting there aren't a heck of a lot of suppliers out there, period. Because it was allegedly the largest single order of LRVs/Streetcars in the world, that probably narrowed the field further. The big three in the industry are Bombardier, Siemens and Alstom; and...

I am so sick of these pedantic terminological debates that go around and around and inevitably end in people posting photos of Chicago El-trains crossing streets. You cite this thing called "the dictionary" (I wasn't aware there was only one). Great. It's absolutely clear that there is also a...

As you never tire of telling us, the commuter rail system in your city has full fare integration baked into its fares, making it not just a plaything of the 1% who must defer their yacht payments to ride the GO each morning, but real public transit "accessible" to the poor and downtrodden...

I think Georgetown's GO platforms are already north of the mainline. Only VIA stops on the south side, right?

AFAIK This is incorrect. The exact same 25% provincial CanCon requirement applies to both the Metrolinx-Bombardier order and the Ottawa-Alstom order. Technically, in strict commercial terms Ottawa has a contract with the Rideau Transit Group (of which Alstom is part-shareholder) which in turn...

Does anyone know off-hand what proportion of Pearson travellers today use T1 versus T3?

GO Transit's Don Yard, which supports a portion of the rail fleet that moves the population of the West Don Lands in and out of Toronto every day. I suspect the price that Metrolinx would be willing to accept to part with it would be finite number, but a very very big one.

The transitway did in fact have a bus before, albeit running on nearby parallel streets (on Rathburn for most of the route that corresponds to phase one, then up Tomken and onto Eastgate for the balance). There were no equivalent stops to Central Parkway and Cawthra. And up until recently...

Nope, can't be, because the province doesn't pay property taxes. It's possible a previous private owner had been in arrears, but that liability remains on them after the province buys, IIRC. Oddly enough, I can't recall ever actually seeing a nice clear one. The EA doesn't really discuss the...

^My armchair hunch is yes, because getting Mill down below track level also likely requires lowering Railroad Street. That in turn potentially leads to not-insubstantial list of properties that will have their entrances severed.

Full disclosure, snooty 416er who's just looking at Google Maps and doesn't really have the kind of local knowledge to suggest anything definitive here, but here's my best crack at a solution to Mill: 1) Close the crossing, constructing a pedestrian bridge instead. 2) Create an underpass...