Fair, but the Hurontario LRT runs between Mississauga and Brampton while this would just be serving Oshawa.

Considering Peel Region (pop:1.32M) is getting at-grade LRT, an elevated RT in Oshawa (pop:170K) seems unlikely..

Once the YNSE is built, I'm not sure that the Richmond Hill line south of Langstaff will make much sense - it's basically the same travel time as the future subway with much fewer stops. Would be really interesting if MX decommissioned that segment of the RH line. While this would force a...

Does your source know that multi-billion dollar transit projects go through public procurement? There may be very conceptual design stuff happening in the background, like when the Ontario Line was unveiled, but even that project has gone through 3 years of design refinements via its technical...

Why on earth from a transit nerd/expert with the clout to go anywhere in the world want to go to Boston? Seems like a peg down from London.

This 2009 Metrolinx business case puts the travel time from Humber to Yonge at 46 minutes. But it should be noted that all these calculations are just done by assuming 22km/h, which itself was taken from simulation done for the Sheppard East LRT. As far as I know, no public Finch documents...

The 2023 service plan page and survey is now posted! More detail provided which was previewed in those twitter images from a few days ago. https://www.ttc.ca/about-the-ttc/projects-and-plans/2023-Annual-Service-Plan

I think the business case for keeping the heat inside the LRVs to reduce heating costs in the winter is a much more compelling case for why the consortium would lean towards button-activated doors. The profit is the motive, not necessary the rider.

Always thought a network like this would make a lot of sense in the future. Connect the rapidly growing density in Humber Bay Shores and along The Queensway to Kipling Station, Park Lawn GO, Sherway Gardens, IKEA and Humber College..

I wonder if you could sue the city for negligently designing roads in ways that have been academically proven to be unsafe - not dissimilar to what these youth are doing provincially with climate change

You could have Line 4 branch prior to McCowan - 4A heads to Sheppard/McCowan station, 4B connects onto the Line 2 tracks and runs to STC. You'd need to build decent turnaround infrastructure at STC for the service to be able to run decent headways though. I think the idea has some merit down the...

What's hilarious to me about this was that the entire point of station name sponsorship was to raise revenue for the province. Durham College is provincially-funded, so they basically gave away the naming rights for net-zero revenue (when you zoom out beyond the Metrolinx budget).

The original Crosstown will use ATO west of the Brentcliffe portal (from Laird to Mount Dennis), and switch over to ATP east of there until Kennedy. This can all be done without any kind of service splitting. The Eglinton West extension will just extend the ATO zone west to Renforth. As far as...

What started as an idea of how to connect three major growth areas (Humber Bay, Six Points, and North York Centre) turned into somewhat of an Ontario Line extensions visioning exercise...

wouldnt be surprised if the hospital starts operating shuttle service between a nearby accessible LRT station and the hospital at some point

Don't even need to look at Ottawa - our streetcars have essentially the same interiors as the ECLRT vehicles. Streetcar dwell times during peak hours are noticeably longer than the subway.

Based on a recent official future TTC rapid transit map posted in the TTC (Other Items) thread, it is easy to imagine how the system might expand in the future to fill the gaps...

As far as I know, the City had specified LRVs in the bid specs early on, because they were planning for at-grade sections of the line. Even though Alstom joined the team late in the game, their vehicle would need to be low-floor.

For the cost of building an entirely dedicated LRT system (including OMSF), pegged at $4B, why not just keep the RapidTO lanes and run an elevated extension of Line 4? Much easier to use existing/planned TR facilities. Hits Malvern and UTSC and includes direct connection to GO at Agincourt to...

Whoever put together this business case frankly bungled it. I'd imagine the TTC was unwilling to provide a conceptual re-designed bus network which prevented the consultant from properly accounting for re-allocation of bus service and improved local frequencies feeding into the LRT. Plus, it is...