Please refresh your knowledge of the physical ability to run Danforth subway trains around the curves of the SRT right-of-way (hint: they won't make it). If you are going to extend the subway, you need a different alignment. Proposing something that is not physically possible doesn't help...

And you know this how? Especially since the people who are signing the cheques say there is money for one but not both. Maybe Ford will redirect the savings from cutting the council office budgets and providing food for late-running meetings to make this a reality?

That's where the vagueness is. Ford doesn't seem to have paid attention to projected costs or Metrolinx telling him there is money for Eglinton OR money for his Scarborough subways, but not both. Has this been accounted for in his alternative plan? Has he accounted for timelines (ie is it...

I was actually quoting the Post's Jonathon Goldsbie who happened to quote Doucet. The Doucet quote though is of less relevance than the point Goldsbie made about a 'vaguely defined underground alternative, setting the city back several years', which is very close to what we have in Toronto right...

Can you explain how your fully separated bus BRT is supposed to have higher capacity than local subway? Since the YUS his hitting upwards of 28,000/hr, your BRT would be needing at least 300 buses packed with almost 100 people each per hour. One every 12 seconds? In theory I don't have...

What new plan? TC was supposedly killed barely a month ago and the TTC was charged to come back in six weeks with suggestions on how they could accommodate the new mandate of 'subways in Scarborough'. Given how many years it takes to do major infrastructure planning (eg Sheppard subway part...

Another rather relevant quote from that panel: "Goldsbie Transit-wise, Toronto is about to go through the exact same experience that Ottawa did during the 2006–2010 term of Mayor Larry O’Brien. He scrapped an approved and funded light rail plan in favour of a vaguely defined underground...

Towhey's the guy who blogged back in February about wanting to completely privatize the TTC, get rid of pretty well all surface transit and make everyone car pool or hire random street jitneys to get around.

Because of course the real world works exactly the same way as idealized classroom settings. Can you tell me how long the EAs took for TC or for the Vaughan subway extension? Guess what. TC is not a downtown centric plan. In fact, it specifically ignores downtown. It thus provides more...

So of course you believe that by going back to the design and planning stage for another couple of years and the likely possibility of a new Conservative Premier coming in, the province won't even think of pulling the rest of the funding for some subway scheme that won't have started...

How about if they were told that they don't get any new, needed transit since the mandate they supposedly gave the mayor says to only do major transit projects in one corner of the city? Do you really think all those people that would have greatly benefited from SELRT, Eglinton and Finch West...

Fundamentally, this is where we have a problem with where we stand right now with where we wish to magically be X years down the road. If we were starting from ground zero right now and deciding what should be the next big transit scheme, my vote would be DRL. However, for whatever reasons...

One could use a line like that for any fantasy subway line anywhere in the city. But does it make fiscal sense? Is there a significant demand to travel from STC to York University that supercedes, say, vastly improving transit across every former city on Eglinton? For that matter, what subway...

The display panels linked here (particularly slide 5) seem to show no sign of planned bus bays. http://www3.ttc.ca/PDF/About_the_TTC/TYSSE/Sheppard_West_Display_Boards_Open_House.pdf

You mean the ugly overhead eyesore wires like this...

But how should one deal with this hate, especially if it isn't entirely rational? One could say that most people hate rainy days, but that doesn't mean we don't need rain to sustain plants and trees. Similarly, even if one hates streetcars, is the option to replace them with a greater...

Off the top of your head what are examples of these incentives? Beyond the coffee/junk food outlet, what private sector operations are there for whom an in-station location is worth significantly more to them than one just down the block? Cinnabon obviously has a great market of tired and...

Does nobody actually think to do the math on these ideas before floating them in public? "“The station itself . . . would be attractive to the private sector if they operated the concessions — retail, restaurants, that stuff underneath — but then also on top with air rights,†said...

He'd had his name legally changed a while before. It probably didn't help when he was arrested though: "What's your name, punk?" "Nobody." <taken behind a couple of police vans>

What proposed DRL alignment are you referring to that goes through the Don Valley instead of crossing it in the vicinity of the Leaside bridge and what transit lines would it actually be intersecting?