I'm not trying to discourage creative speculation about route alternatives, but I'm not sure everyone is taking full account of the terrain in northeastern Ontario. The original line between Havelock and Glen Tay has all those 2000 foot curves for a reason. I've driven Hwy 7 and most of the...

I'm not sure a streetcar loop here would make sense. One previous post suggested making it the terminus and removing the tracks to the west, but that inconveniences riders that use them now, who would have to walk a considerable distance or transfer. The discussion has always been making the...

A reasonable solution would have been to replace the Kennedy station with the proposed loop, fix the tunnel, and retrofit the line to use the newer iterations of the cars, but with regular axle motors instead of linear induction, which (people keep forgetting) Bombardier made an option many...

It could be worthwhile keeping the busway even after the subway opens, since transit in the areas between Kennedy and Brimley will arguably be made worse for many riders.

My takeaway from the last several posts is that the things wrong with Toronto's streetcar network aren't about streetcars, they are about Torontonians, from TTC management down to the drivers. [ EDIT - meant to say down to the riders.] Those are all cultural problems that can be fixed. The...

I've wondered before about an elevated spur. A single track could carry a train every few minutes.

I guess that's correct. I've scoured the web and my own archives for any detailed diagrams of the station, and I can't turn up a single image despite all the discussion of LRT and subway extensions over the last 15 years. I think an elevated guideway north of the 401 is pretty unlikely. It...

They aren't going to use the elevated portion, just the ground-level segment running along the GO tracks. That said, the elevated structure is wide enough to be retrofitted as guided busway, but I assume they concluded it wasn't very practical or cost effective to do so.

At Don Mills and Eglinton, the connection is a little easier because the elevated Ontario Line is offset from the road and directly above the Eglinton line. At Don Mills on Sheppard, the existing station is north of Sheppard and east of Don Mills. I can't see any way of building a vertical...

Metrolinx claims to be working on a transit solution for the last (half) mile but I suspect it will involve painting the sidewalk Tory Blue and naming it after a land developer in exchange for a donation.

I don't think so. Roncesvalles starts a few blocks south of Bloor and doesn't directly lead to the GO station.

I think the restraining rails are half of the permanent fix, with new wheel hubs the other half. But the redesigned hubs don't exist yet, so in the meantime they have to replace the bearings more frequently.

Yes, Moose was dependent on this line. I crossed the bridge yesterday. The tracks on the Gatineau side are rapidly disappearing in an impenetrable boggy forest, although if the tram system every comes to fruition the will have to clearcut some of it.

CBC Marketplace aired a piece on the subject of sketchy cash grabs masquerading as improvement taxes in Niagara Falls, and taxing people who stay overnight to pay for transit for those who don't want to doesn't seem like the most obvious path.

Regarding intersections, nearly every one the trains will be going through has a stop on one side for the other, with the result that they will be accelerating from or braking to a stop. I don't think the 25 kph limit in the actual intersections is that serious an issue, though I agree it's...

The traffic mavens will probably say that this is a huge safety hazard although many cities have phases that vary according to traffic conditions.

The problem seems to be that each sliding door costs the same amount of money to build as a suburban house or a two-bedroom condo despite containing a small fraction of the material. I wish someone could explain that too me.

Let's be reasonable. There can't be multiple exits on the street corners as on Yonge street downtown. Clearly there are too many constraints for that. Eglinton/Islington:

And if the demand doesn't even warrant a bus lane, we're building a subway because.....

Stage 3 isn't funded. It is going to be very expensive per km and carry relatively few riders since it involves extensions to the branches beyond the split at Lincoln Fields. Given the decline in ridership due to WFH, and now the complete collapse in public confidence in OC Transpo, it's not...