I think most riders would be perfectly fine with cutting all of the other rubbish displayed on those screens and just having the "time until next train" display. As it stands, those numbers are so small that I (without glasses and with good vision) can barely read them less than half a platform...

Not of sufficiently high order for as dense a development as the WDL. They're a start of course, but I'd like to see something a little better than that for the WDL. Point. I'll be quite pleased to see a day when the transit signals don't give the streetcars successive sequences of reds...

Agreed. I'm a daily GO rider and not a day goes by that I don't see at least a half-dozen to dozen passengers move through the cars, at least.

Considering the controversy that pops up over closely-spaced streetcar stops every now and then (not without legitimate reason of course...we all know about the Yonge then Victoria stops), I wouldn't be surprised if those were the only stops. Still, I find it a slight bit laughable that the...

I think that it's worth it to bite the bullet now and move straight to EMUs instead of using DMU as an intermediate step. EMU is unquestionably a cleaner technology, which is both better for the environment and for the optics of the operation (see the UPX "dirty diesel train" controversy), and...

Definitely a good idea. GO RER (ie SmartTrack) needs to happen sooner rather than later, and the sooner it can be implemented in a more traditional manner along our rail corridors, the sooner the voting public can come to experience its benefits and swing their opinion (and influence on various...

And more rightly so, given the technology used on, the length of, the route of, and the motivations behind that particular line.

I have to say that that map is seriously impressive. Amazing work on the quality and the comprehensive nature of it all. Although I'll probably return to it at some point for a more detailed overview (probably also with accompanying nitpicks haha), one thing that does stand out to me at...

Whoa, you leave the forums for a few days and look at what happens! A whole thread dedicated to SmartTrack alone and everything. I'm so glad to see Wynne and Tory meeting on his first day in office...just seeing Queen's Park and City Hall working together again in any way makes me breathe a...

I've long thought that, If we could go back before the Sheppard subway was built, it would be better simply to use Finch as the northern crosstown route - further north, greater density (excluding the density which has developed between Yonge and Don Mills due to the subway), and Finch continues...

Indeed. Anyone who expected Tory to be fully progressive on the transit front is getting a real wake-up with this. Not to mention building LRT now, when there is funding for it, means future-proofing the corridor. Ridership will only be increasing as time goes on; coupled with the other...

I really doubt it. He only expressed support for them going forward publicly during the election campaign after he was seriously caught and called out for having left them off of his map. That's no simple oversight, and this statement just confirms it. I sincerely hope you have the right of...

I think it comes down to that they don't know what they're missing. If the many low income people, single mothers, students, and other people likely to use transit in this neighbourhood - and there are a lot of them - knew that they could have comfortable and faster ride then the current jammed...

Really this is all overreaction after the fact. I doubt that any of these people complaining had a clue of what the zoning was for the area when they moved in or before the bus garage was announced. When you move into an area near industrial zones you're accepting that you may be putting...

I can see the merit in a short extension of Line 2 in order to make the trip easier for the bus routes converging on Kipling presently, but given the budgetary constraints I would far rather see frequent GO service extended to the Milton line at least to Cooksville. The Hurontario LRT will do...

Fact. Of course the TTC eventually had to acquiesce to building the Vaughan extension, and now must (or rather, in a sane world should) justify picking up the tab for operating the extension. And that's a really awful system to justify it along ridership lines.

That's a terrible system and might explain some of the TTC's strange priorities for their subway extensions - Finch West and York University are there to justify Vaughan Centre for example? The logic reminds me of the observer principle in quantum mechanics - if you actually measure an...

This. Coupled with the Etobicoke RT and improvements to MiWay including a Hurontario LRT, so many commutes could be eased by a more direct route across the centre of Toronto and the GTA to Mississauga. I'm a big believer in the potential that GO-ALRT had. Nostalgia much :p

Too bad that the province is backpedaling on the Globe piece - I don't think anything could kick start the TTC into a more pliable and reasonable state of affairs more than a re-introduction of funding from higher governments would.

I think that, in situations such as these, there should be an expanded role for transit enforcement officers. It could be added to the TTC By-Laws that any unwarranted behaviour (including pressing the yellow strip) halting the timely operation of the transit network, within reason, shall...