well you could have the opposite where the government is actively pursuing transit. Your house might get demolished for a new subway station, your park for a train yard, your favorite mall for a HSR terminal and you can't do anything about it. but hey now you got sick mass transit, and its also...

ya steels is so ridiculous the subway is planned to go farther north, so the amount of feeders will be largely reduced (except for the 60,53,97, YRT 99 and some local GO buses) you don't need a 24+ bus bay underground terminal. heck if you can you don't even need to make it underground. Unless...

Finch station is so bad everything is boarded up because the walls aren't safe to the public anymore and yet it is one of the busier stations of the system.

funny how there is data unavailable for Hong Kong, Oslo, Paris,Shanghai, and Tokyo. Even though those cities have some of the densest (paris), fastest growing (shanghai), most efficient (hong kong) and longest (tokyo) mass public transit networks. i wonder how they compare with toronto.

also better or cheaper climate control, depending on how they do it (or even introduction of climate control in some stations) and a cleaner trackbed are a plus.

ya by the time it is done walk though trains, LED destination signs, and ATC will all be standard metro technology in America.

i heard of that too, Well at least the mayor actually (or attempts to) gave a crap about transit and is trying to get the money back though public support.

yes i have, but do you seriously think a commuter train which is NOT intergrated into local transit running at 1-2 TPH is going to replace large amounts of cars heading to P-mall. Heck it dosen't even service locations where many of P-mall's main general cilentle lives which is east and west of...

man, bloor one together with the Cumberland terrace redevelopment and the recently completed CASA tower, the street scape of Bloor-Yonge will be changed forever.

Pacific Mall 2 (Steeles & Kennedy, Pacific Mall Condominium Corporation, 20ish) ya i am not sure if there is a tread for this but after some searching i pretty sure there is not. Pacific Mall 2 planned An artist's rendition of a plan to expand Markham's Pacific Mall.. If it gets the...

pacific mall is upgrading too called pacific 2 it will feature two-level expansion will feature a four-level garage atop the retail levels, as well as surface and underground garage connected to the existing space. In total, it will increase parking by 1,300 to 1,500 spaces. and i think...

What does it have to do with EMUs being having a faster acceleration than locos? Yes, acceleration speed is not a function of EMUs vs loco but hp vs train weight. The point of EMUs is to use all self propelling vehicles so the ratio between HP and weight will always be the same for EMUs no...

yes sir.

like what Haljackey said the big dig ran into huge problems with things like subway lines and ramps from the cross harbor tunnel being in the way also tunneling under a rail yard without disturbing it. these things severely inflated the cost.

or.... we can be like china and do both and throw in a HSR in the mix too... but sadly we are not.

although it kinda makes sense. I think this artical is just downright stupid. If there are millions just sitting around waiting for a bad idea to devolve, then we really can afford to lower the price of a single ticket. she is just angry that the TTC raised fares. plus what do you want, a...

and yet it has a 4/5 level stack on it (in all of Canada there is only has one) plus at Bay or Yonge the Gardiner shrinks down to 2 lanes per direction until about spadina where it goes back to 3 lanes per direction. anyways on the irrelevant side... Haljackey... that sounds familiar did you...

but that is because 1st gen GO trans were DMUs then they realized that loco hauled push pull trains are cheaper to run and maintain

and the spadina and st. clair SRT (Streetcar in a Right-of-way Transit) would actually be an LRT.

I personally would like to see a LRT or even a subway (if we fell like there is money to burn) heading towards Kennedy and Steeles as there are 3 large Asian malls (namely P-mall, market village, and splendid china tower) and numerous plazas there. In about 4 years each mall will double in size...