How exactly would Yonge trains get to Lower Bay?

Tell ya what. Take a University train northbound in the morning rush. With every other train they make everyone get off at St Clair West and then tell them to wait 3 or 4 minutes so they can take another train up to Downsview. Seems ridiculous! Maybe it's because the ridership is much lower they...

I'm more inclined to agree with jje1000. Aside from the DRL fantasy (Ford has made no mention anywhere of that being on his radar, so the claim he'd be a 'big supporter' is really just misguided wishful thinking), there are a whole host of other disjointed ramblings. He claims TC "made...

So you are suggesting that a new Conservative premier who presumably rides in to power on a platform of cutting taxes and spending in face of a mammoth deficit will be likely to fork over more money for transit in Toronto? And that a Federal government (of any stripe) which has a long history of...

One way to look at this is to try some basic math. For starters, let's assume 800m stop spacing, maximum speed is 60 km/h (16.7 m/s) and acceleration/deceleration of 2 m/s^2 (rounding off to taking 8 seconds to get up to speed and then come to a full stop). We'll also assume initially that...

You'd be correct if you ignore the facts that Sheppard and Eglinton and Finch West had funding in place as well as detailed plans. Sheppard has actually started construction and Eglinton was slated to start construction in early 2011, with actual tunneling starting within a year. But then...

Must be a Monday morning and my Sarcasm2000 joke-o-meter isn't up to full power yet.

Are you serious? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Defence#Area_specifications

I'd suggest you actually visit the location and not just base your assumptions on a map. There is no way a single station can reasonably service both the hospital and the park, plus there is a deep ravine between the North Leaside neighbourhood and the hospital. The hospital is on a plateau...

Why do you think cut-and-cover would be significantly cheaper than bored tunnel? The far bigger cost is going underground in the first place (acknowledging that cut-and-cover is cheaper than bored tunnel, just not a panacea of savings, especially compared with the planned LRT construction in...

While I totally support anything to speed up the streetcar, when you say "only slightly increase the total cycle time", it actually is a 20% increase, even though you are only talking about 10 seconds. That might be something the roads department and the 'stop the war on cars' crowd would have a...

How does the private company split that single fare with the public transit commission? Who gets what share? If it will be highly competitive with the B-D line, what compensation should there be to the TTC for siphoning off their subway passengers (compensation that would ultimately be paid...

Probably beating the horse just a little past death, but... I have no problem with guesses, provided they are expressed as such. But saying "Considering that Bombardier would love to use that line as a showcase for Mark II" was presenting it as a definitive fact when for all we know, they...

So if the TTC were to cancel a multi-million dollar order for LRT vehicles from BBD, they would be replacing it with a multi-billion dollar order for Mark II ICTS from BBD? And to cover operations on a line only half as long? I'm pretty sure you know that is not the case. You are making...

Ok, so you are saying you don't really know if "Bombardier would love to use that line as a showcase for Mark II" or if they would love to use the line to showcase their other LRT technology as per their current contracts, but rather just making suppositions presented as facts. If you can...

Do you not see the blatant contradiction in this statement? How can you be sure it can be accomplished with the same funds if you have no idea what the costs are? How would a third party owning/operating individual lines work in practice? Would you pay a TTC fare to get on the bus to take you...

Just curious if you can point me to a cite that has BBD expressing such a thought?

Isn't the whole thing up in the air? Ford's math just doesn't add up. Even if you take the money from the surface stretch of the Eglinton line (depriving thousands of better service) and the money from the Finch West line (depriving more surburbanites of better service) do you have enough...

Why would a small park squeezed between exit and entrance ramps to the Allen and Eglinton itself be more appealing than the existing larger park DIRECTLY ACROSS Eglinton? As I suggested before, you really should visit the station site to visualize your proposals.