I propose a counter-offer. You and I, We're going to make parking DT free. What a load of rubbish, $3,000 a year in parking fees for the executive who commutes from Oshawa? No way. The problem is that when you charge for parking, including increasing the fees at peak periods, in an area with...

In case you missed it, I refer you to my post earlier. If you choose to ignore it then good day to you.

I see, in that case would a congestion charge be better in your opinion?

Over hundreds (thousands?) of posts this and the Sheppard LRT thread has seen over the past years, we seem to have agreed that 1) a transfer from subway to LRT at Don Mills would be highly unpopular and inconvenient; 2) conversion of the Sheppard subway tunnel to LRT operation is challenging and...

You're right I should have said "displace trips". The point you make is very interesting and I was wondering about it as well. Do you have a study/article you could link me to? I tried to find something but failed.

Oh for sure. We could certainly use some more capacity on the GO lines and I very much look forward to GO RER. And it was not my intention to suggest that you support highway expansion. Rather, I wished to caution against the thinking that road tolls (or any other measures that decrease...

Let's be careful about falling into the "expand highways to solve congestion" mentality. You seem to be well read on topics of urban planning, so I do believe that you would be familiar with the logic there. I would be happy to have a discussion about it if you like. In most cases people would...

Scrolling through the past several pages, many posters have identified concerns around road tolls, particularly: 1) it costs people a significant amount of money; 2) it is unfair to people who make less. These concerns are valid and the posters were right to point them out. What I think is...

Its disappointing that VIVA set a poor example of what a BRT line could be. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this one.

Agreed. But let's make sure we have good frequency (cheap to implement) before we even think about investing in expensive infrastructure changes.

My understanding was that it is to be a median BRT line from the Credit Woodlands to Kipling. Has that changed? As things currently stand, you are likely correct in that signal priority will be limited due to politics/paradigms, which means that there are two solutions. 1) We pressure our...

I do apologize, the last bit was said in jest. No offense was meant. That would be MiWay, but semantics aside, overbuilt it is in some ways, white elephant it is not. I will freely admit that the Western section (Erin Mills to Winston Churchill) is a waste of money and has arguably made service...

If you're referring to the section between UTM and Kipling, that's a corridor which sees very frequent service from the 2 branches of #1 and the 2 branches of #101. (Pre-pandemic) combined frequency was 5mins or less during peak. For the rest the corridor through (Waterdown to Trafalgar) you're...

I'm sorry I have to stop myself from laughing. I honestly thought this whole post was an early April Fools joke. Now that I realise it's not, I must say that your ignorance and arrogance is so extreme that it is actually funny. Exactly. No one used it except the riders on 107 and 109, both of...

First of all, thank you Urban Sky for linking the excellent post by @roger1818 and Greg Gormick's plan. Both of them have been immensely helpful. I did read through the report, and I find Mr. Gormick's arguments to resonate, at least from a technical perspective. While the European model is...

Hi Urban Sky, thanks for starting this new thread. I do have a question regarding legislation for VIA. So I read somewhere that compared to Amtrak, VIA lacks a 'mandate', which limits it from providing better service. I believe I also read somewhere (I may have misread) that the VIAFast proposal...

It may be best to use the cost for building such a project here (in Ontario) and now (in 2020) when comparing different options. As others have pointed out, costs have increased significantly since ~2010 and even more here in the GTA. Okay, I'm genuinely curious. What would the average speed of...

Very good points. Do we have more suitable data from somewhere else for comparison?

Line 2 (Bloor-Danforth) has an average speed of 32km/h. This isn't much slower.

Of course you're right. With this light metro option, would it be fully segregated from traffic (elevated or at-grade with fly over/under) or would it simply have full priority (railroad-crossing style) at intersections?