Buttonville leaving doesn't mean Pickering will be built. Our community isn't going to roll over and allow an airport, even a small scalable one designed initially only for GA traffic, to get a foothold on the Federal Lands (especially just for the good of GA!) without a tremendous battle...

Stops at Eglinton and Sheppard might be good for a GO RER service along the CP mainline. The Eglinton stop would intersect close to Flemingdon Park, giving a low-income community a strong GO RER connection, and could connect to the nearest Crosstown stop easily. Where the CP tracks intersect...

Firstly, I want to say unequivocally that in no way is the construction of Pickering Airport a foregone conclusion. Both here in Pickering as well as around Ontario there are a lot of very good and very hard-working people who have laboured tirelessly to demonstrate how unnecessary a Pickering...

That someone has an hour to file the papers, let's see :P

Rob Ford has withdrawn from race for mayor.

Absolutely yes, yes, and yes. Glad to see some big-name support for this concept, because it's the only way we'll ever get around the fiefdom mentality that divides up our transit operations, fare structures, etc. Though as others have mentioned, I would suggest directly absorbing other...

I have to say that Yonge-Eglinton is a far more natural-sounding name, though Juan is correct that I was referring to subway stations for the convention of east-west then north-south. I think Eglinton Station will get renamed, however.

I was moving from the more-crowded area at the back of the streetcar towards the centre where there were some free seats. Though I do see what you mean - all-door boarding means less need to move about the cars.

I rode the new streetcars for the first time today! (4403 northbound, 4400 southbound). While I liked the smoother, quieter ride; the general cleanliness and comfortable feel of the cars (air conditioning was a big plus); the surprisingly quick acceleration; and especially the all-door boarding...

Agreed. Frankly if the residents of the route put up with living near frequent enormous CP freights, a few GO trains shouldn't be too unpalatable. But I don't think GO service through Summerhill is the most useful, however, especially given the formidable challenges the route faces.

I, along with a boatload of other commuters who work in York Region and Mississauga, would find service on the York Subdivision at least to be an immeasurably useful and likely very well-ridden service. A recurring theme in the problem of where transit is located in the GTA is that our east-west...

Of course there's the issue that the current mayor, Susan Fennell, is in all sorts of legal hot water right now. I'm not the most knowledgeable on Brampton but I can't help but think that a direct routing along Main St is the best option. People naturally gravitate to straight transit routes...

Yes. Yes. Yes! This is what I was talking about with computerized screens. It makes infinitely more sense to be able to update route info in a single software update, and frankly only showing the current line plus immediate connections is most useful anyways. I do not wear glasses and...

I doubt that they'll be kept. I'll be glad once they pull out the tracks in the north-south portion of the line, from Kennedy to Ellesmere/Midland, because the Stouffville GO line could really use the extra space in the corridor for double-tracking and electrification. I may be a fan of the LRT...

True, but had some foresight been given, each TR would not have to be brought in for maintenance to install a new map at all. As above, if these screens were better-located and used for map information instead, we could be avoiding this issue entirely. Interesting point. If I recall...

Agreed. The TYSSE will really throw a lot of our signage for a loop, most of all the ridiculous maps with the physical blinking lights indicating stations en route aboard the TRs, which will have to be retrofitted with a new map AND new arrangement of lights (I believe LEDs but not sure). Why we...

Sadly the naming convention doesn't seem to work that way: at Bloor-Yonge and Sheppard-Yonge, the east-west name seems to come before the north-south. Though as for the thought of an Allen-Sheppard station,

Still worth it. The good folks of Scarborough were willing to plunk down multiple billions to eliminate a transfer at Kennedy; just wait until grumbling starts about a transfer at Don Mills.

I don't have a vote in Toronto :P

Funny, considering that Ford's outright lies (on multiple occasions) to the voting public appears to be endearing him to them. I find it hard to believe this poll, however. Just like how certain polling companies kept projecting PC governments right up to Election Day back in June, I feel...