Part of the problem is the tendency for politicians and agencies to try to sell their projects by calling them Rapid Transit when what they really mean is the less sexy Higher Order Transit. In the earlier days of planning the suburban LRTs, planners were saying speeds could be 26-27 kph with...

I don't for a minute buy that that busway has to take three years. If they just started demolishing now and designed an asphalt strip with some shelters they could do it by Christmas. Someone is killing this by design.

This is a bit of a myth. Every technology company has to bring in specialized workers from equipment suppliers, management, and technical specialties in order to get a foreign operation going, whether it's a factory, R&D, programming, CGI, what have you. Most go home after a few months with a...

Don't forget that they will only cross the road after the left-turning cars, because apparently in Toronto it's impossible for left signals to have anything but first dibs.

At this point why are they adding to the Quebec Museum of Imaginary and Cancelled Tramways?

An alternative would be to pay someone 5 million to engineer proper signal priority instead of 5 billion to build a subway under a new surface line.

The letter mentions an abandoned right of way between Bolton and Orangeville that could be used as an alternative. Even using the map in Lines of Country, I was unable to find any trace of the majority of the ROW in Google or Bing maps. It's unusal for a ROW in farm country to disappear so...

The letter mentions an abandoned right of way between Bolton and Orangeville that could be used as an alternative. Even using the map in Lines of Country, I was unable to find any trace of the majority of the ROW in Google or Bing maps. Its unusal for a ROW in farm country to disappear so...

Bus service during the construction of the confederation line was complicated, as the stations had to be kept in use while the running way was altered. At St Laurent the lower level of the thru busway was out of service, and all buses had to use the upper bus terminal. Trying to rebuild that...

That's a can of worms. Where is the eventual extension of the OL going? Do they both need to go to Bloor? Should one of them go north of Bloor? Is it worth sending one along the Lake to Etobicoke? In the east, how about intersecting with OL at corktown, then a station at Queen's Quay and...

To me a more obvious route is Esplande and Front. King already has transit and chunks of Queen will have a Subway. Front and areas south of it are underserved. Building on King would mess up the corridor for 10 years.

Aha. I still think they're great, sort of space age. There are quite a few surviving concrete structures like that from the sixties in Ontario. How much of our recent concrete work is ever going to strike anyone as attractive? The Bentway, which I'm not criticizing at all, is a giant lipstick...

I went back to the first pages of this thread and found a reference to the LRT being built by 2011. Jesus wept.

And look at the supports on the elevated road. Someone with a sense of style designed them. Everything in Ontario is made of concrete and looks like it was designed by the owner of a concrete plant.

How and why is Corus going to "maintain its long-term lease at the building" and also move out entirely?

A 4.7 mile tunnel would save about a mile, or 2 minutes of travel at a huge cost. It's comparable to what might be required in Montreal for a second tunnel past Mount Royal, but there the distance and time savings are several times greater. I don't think it will ever seem like the lowest...

Some realism required. It's not even close to being literally true that the trains don't run a majority of the time, even if the shutdowns are unacceptable. Ottawa's farebox recovery is much lower than Toronto's and property taxes are higher, so the financial bind is real. Bus routes are...

We live half way between the equator and Santa in a continental climate. In the summer we want shade from the sun. In the winter we're cold and we want sun but shelter from the wind. In spring and fall the sun is neither up nor down and it rains a lot so we want something to stand under...

Yes they really ought to build a vertical sunshade 6 meters high in the middle of an arterial road to protect riders enduring a 3 minute wait from dying of sunstroke in autumn when the sun is low on the horizon and temperatures soar into the teens😎

The station should be a warm green colour. Moss green would do :)