That's a lot of capital $ locked up on something that is not going to happen...better to bring spending forward for something that can get done rather than do what we did this year and underspend the capital budget by $500 million...that's almost an entire LRT route vs of underspending, in just...

There are a bunch of things the city could do... Mandatory review - with no demolition until complete - when selling any building over 50 years old Mandatory review now - all buildings over 75 years They could also make it a precondition before selling that the owner pays for a review for...

Most of it doesn't exist...they need to double or triple track large sections of it, buy property for those tracks, move the current tracks, build a couple dozen major bridges, do some major rail crossing grade separations, build more than a dozen new stations, buy land for those stations...

^more like...1 per month for the next two months...then, "we know, but you're not gonna be happy when you hear it..."

I lived in Mississauga until I was 27 (Mississauga Rd), at one point our family had 4 cars...and I totally get what you are saying...however having now lived in Toronto for 8 years with no car (by choice, I could easily afford a car) and living only 10 minutes from my office on transit I see...

If the city isn't willing to put money into this, I think developers start to raise a stink...why build massive condos if the target audience is not going to be able to get anywhere... As a bargaining tactic saying you aren't going to pay anything is not a good way to get things done...saying...

Agree with Drum118, we should start talking about taking the 60 car order that we won't see until after 2019 (even in a best case scenario) and giving it to someone else and they can start pumping them out as soon as possible...

I'd also imagine that having multiple suppliers, with separate supply chains would have benefits with regards to protecting against currency fluctuations, material costs and labour shortages (or disruptions). Given the change in the Canadian dollar I wonder how much profit is being lost or...

From the perspective of putting all our eggs in one basket this seems to not be the best move...it would be like contracting out all construction in the city to one company... They should have gone with the two best bids for half of the vehicles...with any options being awardable to either of...

That there is still not a public schedule or date for even the fourth vehicle is a huge red-flag...(let alone the rest of the order) If Byford doesn't make a public statement about it before the next TTC Board meeting then he needs to be asked point blank when Bombardier has committed to...

They should have just built the full glass shed, but kept the metal work - with the concrete removed (similar to how it is now under the glass)...it reminds of what was, but the roof is higher and feels more open... When they put the green roof on, it's going to feel really dark again...too...

I noticed last time I was down that there aren't any "next vehicle arriving in..." displays....I'm wondering when they are planning to install them...I would have thought that the wiring etc should have been done when the platform was being built...and that they should have been there from day one?

I grew up in Lorne Park and went to school just down the road...there have been a lot of deaths at this particular grade crossing...a quick google search shows 3 at lorne park road in the last year...there are many more if you include the tracks in the area and the two stations as well as...

How much would adding a station effect whatever work has been done so far? Specifically with regards to rewriting and re-opening the Transit City agreement to include this (or move it to a seperate agreement I guess...) it's already taken them almost a year and they haven't come back with...

Having read the documents from Metrolinx from their latest meeting, it seems like they are essentially treating all of their tracks as needing to be upgraded...some more than others... From a staging perspective something like smarttrack is going to take a large number of upgrades to two...

Sounds like from the sounds of it that there were a few main issues: 1. Toronto Hydro not getting their act together to fund their part in time to start when they were supposed to 2. Unknown Unknowns - all the stuff you don't find out until you start digging 3. Artificial deadline of Pan-Am...

I'm taking bets on how long until the first councillor says the words: Queen's Quay Disaster

TTC is also cocking this up by not talking publicly about it...it wasn't in the CEO's report, and no public discussion by the commission...and they haven't updated the previously released schedule from before the strike... There needs to be public pressure on Bombardier by the TTC....not...

So, Bike Share has a number of sources of funds...but they seem to all be one off's...and it's a bit unclear what is going to expansion and what is going to operations.... $9 or $5 Million from Astral (Bathrooms traded for Bixi) - to payoff the debt $1 Million from TD (Today - 2 years) $1...

Saw a tweet today suggesting that when the TTC plans to run busses on Bloor (i.e. over a weekend for construction) - they should put temporary signs up (of the easily removable vinyl type) with no-stopping/no-parking symbols for the area affected so that the busses could run faster (especially...