GO found the same when it was looking into Smartish Track. Many of the stations would have had a net negative effect on ridership at the cost of hundreds of millions.

I really don't get the obsession with shelters for high frequency lines. If headways are 4 to 5 minutes average waits will be 2 to 2.5 minutes. No one is going to freeze or cook. Heated shelters are a more needed for poor souls who have to wait half an hour. You know, downtown streetcar patrons.

The Toronto Star story on the King Car - it took 79 minutes from Bathurst to Jarvis - is sad. Olivia Chow's next project has to be getting downtown back under control. The TTC management needs firing last year, and she should appoint a streetcar czar from outside to shake things up.

I've been wondering whether that empty section of Toronto Yard could be a subway depot for Sheppard and the SSE at some point.

Hmm. IIRC Olivia Chow was personally responsible for keeping some of the extra stops towards the south end of Spadina in the 90s, so who knows. But I suspect the plan is to keep buses running from Sheppard/McCowan to the Zoo and Rouge Hill that the house dwellers along Sheppard could ride to...

Guess it wasn't a Gravy Train.

The future of aviation, one hopes, will include increased hybrid and even electric propulsion. Many of these aircraft feature STOL and even VTOL, as well as significantly reduced noise pollution. It would be shortsighted to increase the runways for jets, when a better course for the airport...

Church had a streetcar in olden days. According to James Bow it ended in 1954, replaced by a bus which ended in 1996. I can remember that bus from afternoons whiled away in various pubs, and it was a marvel to behold a bus running for years virtually empty even at rush hour. Mike Harris was...

As Steve Munro pointed out the TTC is using about 70% of the existing fleet and doesn't have cash or drivers to operate more. And manoeuvres like shutting down St Clair for a year don't improve the situation. The new ones were for growth including the east waterfront but that is such a mess...

Not clear to me why someone would subject themself to the airport grind then board a four-hour-ish train to the USA. I'm all for connecting GO, and VIA's lakeshore and Kitchener corridors to Pearson, but if you're already in the airline system, just fly to Detroit or Chicago, I think.

Google Maps deliberately writes its software in such a way that monetizeable information is given priority over such unimportant concerns as knowing the name of a street. If a street name gets in the way of displaying the location of fast food restaurants, the street name is out the window...

Thanks Drum. Second video shows everything wrong with signalling in Toronto. Streetcar arrives at an intersection, sits 10 seconds while nothing moves, sits another several seconds for cars turning left, then eventually trundles along. Dumb as a stump.

I thought the general drift was GO working on the north corridor through Kitchener and VIA the south one through Brantford. Do people there want to commute to Hamilton or Toronto. Maybe a shuttle to Aldershot with connections there in either direction? Would a station around Dundas make any sense?

If the airport were closed, Toronto could build a massive spa-waterpark on the land in about 3 years, or a transit link in perhaps 30.

I think they will actually look at whether to use technology that links in with the heavy subway system and Wilson Yard, or the Ontario Line, which would give them a little more flexibility and the possibility of interlining at some point. They have to pick one and it's a big, real decision...

The people movers are probably a must. IIRC the official proposal had transit riders walking a kilometer just to get to check in, while those arriving by car were dropped at the door. Not the best optics.

I still favour the Better Living Centre scheme. A water spark beside a waterside park.

I read Steve Munro's post, and more than a project off the rails, it put me in mind of a civilization in collapse. In 2007 it was supposed to cost half a billion and take 4 years to build. After 15 years of progress it hasn't been started and will now cost five times as much and take nearly 3...

OK. In Toronto (the city that can't!) I guess anything beyond running a bus on an existing street takes decades. I should accept that since all of Toronto has.

Here's an idea. A set of tracks on Parliament from King to QQ would improve the interim service along the waterfront, especially while the Cherry connection is being built, as we can expect no service on Cherry for a couple of years. In the event the OL is completed on time, it would provide a...