What transit causes are bursts of development around stations. I think people who say that are confusing suburbs with sprawl. Suburbs don't necessarily have to be the same thing as sprawl. It's possible to have pedestrian-friendly, compact suburbs. I'm highly skeptical of any connection...

Indeed. It seems impossible to get transit built before it's an emergency. Queens Quay East was supposed to have a local LRT before the condos started going up. Instead, it's been delayed and the prospects for it under Ford are very grim. Waterfront West LRT was a Lastman plan to provide...

Back when the airport link was a public-private thing called Blue22, it was supposed to cost $22 per person and run non-stop between the Airport and Union station in 22 minutes. Now that's the private partner has buggered off and there are more stations, it might become cheaper.

Are you including vehicle purchases and garage construction in either of those numbers? Viva is my usual example of BRT/pre-BRT because I ride it. I like what they are doing, but they are leaving the problem spots for last. They are: - Single tracking the busway at the Highway 7/404...

My understanding is that, in some cases, political factions hire paid trolls to fill newspaper comment sections with their brand of insanity. I've seen a Craigslist ad hiring trolls to astroturf newspaper comments for a specific cause, and it fits into what I know about the less ethical side of...

Let me toss another definition into the discussion: Subway - Anything with frequency better than every 5 minutes A lot of North American cities run their "subway" lines at 20 minute or worse frequencies at rush hour. Imagine the reaction on this board if we were to build an Eglinton subway in...

What would be the staging for that? 2020: Eglinton central section and Scarborough RT 2025: Eglinton East 2030: Eglinton West 2035: DRL Pape to Queen 2040: DRL Eglinton to Danforth (Interlining to the east?) 2045: DRL Yonge to Roncesvalles 2050: DRL Bloor to Eglinton (Interlining to the west?)

Demolish Lakeshore Boulevard first.

Well, the following renaming would make things less confusing, since the current Richmond Hill Centre Viva terminal is next to a mismatched GO station: Richmond Hill GO -> Newkirk GO Langstaff GO -> Richmond Hill Centre GO But this is just speculation.

LOL. You know, I agree, Mayor Ford should do that. He should also take advantage of the federal election campaign to demand an answer from every party about what they'll do to shorten the average commute in Toronto as far as federal transportation infrastructure funding goes. However, I fully...

I think the construction of Viva BRT on Highway 7 will legitimize BRT in Toronto. It's always good to have a nearby flagship line to point to. They are doing utility relocation for it right now. (The Mississauga Transitway stuff, OTOH, does not sound appealing to me at all. I dislike things...

Are you advocating for parallel bus service to the Eglinton LRT subway from day 1?

I very much disagree. There are some great restaurants near Yonge St and Yonge Blvd that I can't easily get to because it's not walking distance from either York Mills or Lawrence stations. The city made a huge mistake by not putting in a Glen Echo station when extending the Yonge line north.

YRT does outsource drivers. Driving a multi-ton vehicle in stop-and-go traffic is not an unskilled job. It should pay more than highway trucking as a baseline. It also has terrible hours because a rush hour is not 8 hours long. My understanding is that many drivers need to work the morning...

Spadina is the easiest major avenue to cross midblock in Toronto because there's a huge, relatively safe island in the middle. An LRT median turns a 4 lane street into two 2 lane streets. The same applies to the BRT medians in Curitiba, hallowed by BRT lovers. They make the streets much safer...

On one hand, I believe that government-funded transit needs to be at least as reliable as government-funded asphalt, so I support this change. On the other, the Fords seems to think that this will somehow magically reduce labour costs, which is misguided, so I'm worried what they'll do when...

I'm perfectly ok with fake HSR. The ICE 3 trains in Germany run at 300 km/h while sharing inner city track with S-Bahn commuter rail. Of course, this may not be possible in Canada and US because of our safety regulations.

You do realize that's impossible without spending a lot more money, right? One reason would be so that they can transfer to the Yonge subway before it fills up even more at Yonge-Bloor.

At no point has an upgrade been under discussion. As of February 2011, Ford has not even mentioned a possibility of a Queen or King subway once. Buses are a downgrade. Personally, I'd be perfectly happy with a Queen subway line and new streetcar lines on Coxwell, Ossington, or Dufferin...

You may be overstating that. Viva are the trunk routes. Having Viva shut down while YRT keeps running is like having TTC subway shut down while TTC buses keep running. It's not exactly a low impact event. Edit: I see that it's not Viva striking this time but the other ones. Whew.