quite interesting writeup. Funny the minister says "yea those costs arent realistic anymore" 25$ billion hfr only anyone? They make a note that a blended HSR/HFR is probable on different sections of the route HFR canada says that it may actually not be all-electric and battery or diesel...

Basically because the 407 exists, every mention of a toll road in ontario at least is impossible. For example even the 412 and 418 were like $0.3/km before they were removed. the government owned highways were bad too.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10758173/ontario-transportation-legislation-gridlock-focus/ While its not for sure, the article mentions double decking the gardiner, or tunneling it. Either way, this thing is going to suck up billions more to "fix" congestion Im already rolling my eyes edit: on...

None of our BRT's are much better than a regular bus line. I dont count that as "rapid transit"

I mean sure if you build at-grade lrt of course its cheaper, but i straight disagree that makes it the option we need to continue building. Look at the crosstown thread, every day theres someone like "we should have elevated it"/ Like yea lol. Tunneling is needed, its not like we can avoid it...

ehhhh at over a billion per km? Not how i would describe it. But it is good we are finally building higher level transit again We really need to start looking at the next stage of transit expansion though

whats with that L shaped box, is that the tbm launch site?

wow excavation is moving fast. The station is 30m deep here correct?

Thats interesting, got a source for that? ive only ever seen the notes about it just existing?

what is this? admission to what?

MAYBE????

no no hes got a point, But yes the OL will have wifi, as to what degree it will be available in the tunnels vs just in stations remains to be seen. Or whether there will be cell service in the 40m deep tunnels either...

Holy shit what are theese access points running? Theres no way it should be that much

That Tzatziki place is litterally in between pape and cosburn station. Kinda weird actually, its not an exit building or whatever. Found the notice: https://assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/v1720460363/Images/Metrolinx/OL_ConstructionNotice_SammonLaneway_v1.pdf Its for slurry storage silos...

that was the old war monument, was removed and cleared for more work area for the project. Could be wrong but i think its related to line 1 interchange work

So thats the "keyhole" that we heard about awhile ago?

Its not even the older areas like union to eglinton only. How is the sheppard line so bad too? its just over 20 years old. HOW

You really think people are that smart? The carbon tax exists and people literally make money from it (me included). But when have you ever heard of someone doing the math? Remember the homeownership rate of seniors is 70%. They're usually the loudest when it comes to anything tax related...

Even if that was politically feasible which is really isn't, the ttc needs to drastically increase fares, does anyone else think about that $40 billion hole in the ttc state of good repair and capital upgrades as often as I do? Also both Seniors and low-income people would be very much loudly...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/ttc-eyes-changes-to-fare-evasion-penalties/article_6888dd96-451e-11ef-ad1d-63e961dbe848.html