Yea i know, I think what I was trying to say was that not a majority of riders will actually use a crosstown LRT line to ride "across town", even though the line crosses the entire city. Most would hop on and off at random points. I think it's great to build these "crosstown" LRT lines across...

I mean, having a continuous surface LRT line across the north of the city would simply act as a high-capacity-slightly-faster bus route that feeds into north-south RER and subway lines, which I'm fine with. If travel patterns along much of Finch involve a lot of fairly short but very popular...

Sheppard is the only option that will probably do that, but it's oh-so expensive and would still be overbuilt for whatever ridership it manages to attract anyways. But, there's some potential for it, I'm sure. Operationally, is there anything really bad about running a very long surface LRT...

There's a global agenda for transit symbols, a conspiracy that the elites want to force every city to use the 'T' 😈 and if you don't use it, then no shiny light rail for you ✌️ On a serious note that would be cool, as a universal symbol for transit for all cities, pretty useful if you travel...

Nice map! Btw, I'm assuming the 509 extension to Long Branch represents the Waterfront west LRT - does that completely replace the 501 west of Roncesvalles? It looks like the 501 ends there. And yea, I wish you luck with drawing in the OL, it will be quite a challenge because of the streetcar...

Yea, 20k pphpd is the extreme maximum. Running these light metro trains every 3 minutes would have a capacity of ~8k pphpd; I don't think there's going to be a need to run these hypothetical trains more than every 2 minutes for a looong time - but the option would always be there, if for some...

Truee, but these trains won't be like the ole rusty RT - longitudinal seating, for one, no operator cab, and open gangways. This system does use short trains, but I intend to make up for it with very high frequencies. With headways of 75 seconds (realistic bare minimum, I think, for an automated...

Ooh, nice catch. When naming the West extension stations, I had been focused on differentiating them from the station names on Line 2 but I forgot about Line 6 :S Edit: renamed it to Willowridge on the map^^ This would be the best way to implement it but I don't really think it's necessary to...

yea, I don't think it was worth putting an underground station in a spot where not a lot of people live nor any important transit connections exist :p Seemed like a low ridership station. Had to make some cuts to keep the line at zoomzoom speed

This is my first serious transit fantasy map I've ever made - it's an alternate universe design for the Eglinton Crosstown Line. In this design, light metro is used and the line also replaces the SSE. I believe in the overall transit plan for Toronto, implementing this plan would have been...

I really wished they grade separated it out to Don Mills, since that's a natural terminal that could be used to short-turn trains between there and Pearson. It will be interesting to see them maintain their supposed 2-3 minute frequency (don't quote me on this, i am working from memory) on the...

I had a shot of coffee today, something i don't normally drink, that's my excuse And yea, that empty spot looks appetizing for an original Pink Line alignment. Even so this new set of REM lines almost perfectly completes their rapid transit network. At that point, the island will have higher...

REM's current stage 1 is pretty much rapid regional rail with some more stops in parts of the city and very spaced out stops elsewhere. That slide is for REM's North and East (Stage 2, i guess) and the design is somewhat different - the stations are a lot closer together and more similar to...

is it deep bored tunneling for the all the tunnels on the west extension? Seems funny that metrolinx wrote an article on the advantage of the Eglinton west median for construction without mentioning it is easier to cut-and-cover in that same median without much disruption (unlike in midtown...

^^ Ik that says caledonia station but i'm pretty sure it's the same design for mount dennis too. The cladding is a thin colourful stripe on blank concrete. I mean, i'd rather the whole wall too but oh well. Guess the idea was to just have art and colour at eye-level for the humans, and not...

There's only two ways I think they can (with reasonable cost) run the BRT through downtown Whitby. And that is, either the current transit mall which takes away all traffic lanes, or having the busses run in mixed traffic (there's no space for centre-of-road rapidways and vehicle lanes). As for...

meh, the WTC station is one of the busiest in NYC and presumably one of the busiest on the continent. Seems a bit overinvestment but it is a very important station, not just because of the daily usage and transit connections but also by where it stands, like a monument i suppose, to a past...

Isn't building elevated sections faster than tunnelling? I'm not sure tbh, although I'd imagine it is. Also I think the best case scenario if metrolinx applies a full value-engineered approach here would be running it in the median with fly-overs/fly-unders at each intersection and removing any...

lol there's so much negative reaction. Here's one from the transit mall they are proposing in Whitby Downtown Whitby transit mall proposal gets big thumbs down from local businesses (durhamregion.com) That pretty much sums up the behaviour of most people who live in Durham Region who *don't...

The thing is, you can get crazy amounts of development without putting the line underground. I mean, just look at skytrain and all the development it spurred along its extensions while being elevated through wide right of ways like that on Eglinton West. And it is just as fast as any underground...