Its certainly a metro. Or skytrain. I guess we don't call it that because its 100% above ground and uses LRT vehicles even though it behaves the same as the main subway. I'm not sure. Thats a good example. With that in mind, maybe people will refer to the Crosstown differently - they'll just...

I guess if you want to get me on the details, sure, I guess. But we're really talking about subway lines here. In other words, stretches of multiple stations. Again, the Crosstown behaves exactly like a subway for ten km. Underground stations, underground trains, typical subway signalling...

What an odd debate (that I'm clearly late to). A subway is a train that runs underground. That is the definition of the word. Line 5 is a subway for 10 km of its route. It will be underground, it will have full underground stations, it will have a typical train signalling system; literally the...

One of the best views of Toronto is the one you get driving into the city on the Gardiner from the Don Valley. A complete superficial defense, of course, but I stand by it =D. The "disconnects the city from its waterfront" argument never held much sway with me since walking under the rail...

It's so ugly. Like, I'm amazed it made it through the approval process. I can't think of a single new condo in this entire city that looks as bad as this one. Grid Condos does the same idea infinitely better.

Thank god they dropped that silly Bay station idea. Yonge and University stations are positioned a bit oddly - would have expected they'd be spared further away from eachother, but not a huge deal. Agree with the above re Jarvis though. Also its a shame that the interchanges are so much deeper...

Much of these areas are already no mans land. We aren't talking about the middle of downtown.

Was there really no better option than a 400m walk between the station and the mall..? Thats not a negligible distance. Thats close to the distance between stations downtown! The station itself looks nice. Not too nice like the Vaughan ones, but close. In general I'm very much in favor of...

Transportation planners in this region really like taking the "rapid" out of rapid transit, don't they? Some of those route options, dear god. This is not a feeder bus line and should not be designed as such.

Thats silly. A subway is an underground train. Full stop. The Eglinton LRT is a subway for half its length. The reason we refer to it as an LRT is because the other half is not grade separated. With that in mind, metro would probably be the better terminology since it doesn't imply above or...

I'd like to think Ford would just leave it alone; he gains nothing from cancelling it. Its not like he can cancel it and put a subway in its place because he has like 5 other subway projects to pay for now. That said, either he or Rob did propose a subway on Finch once, so its not outside the...

So pretty.

Someone of reddit made a fair point. If the current projections suggest the subway does not need to be built, but the subway *is* going to be built for political reasons, then.... just change the projections. Design an urban plan that will - medium to longterm - justify the subway. Do whatever...

Between spending 4 billion on the one stop plan and spending 5 billion on a three stop plan, I'd rather they do the the three stop plan. I mean I'd rather they do the LRT, but since the subway seems destined to go forward, they should do it right the first time. Though if costs continue to...

It's certainly ambitious, I'll give them that. More density is a good thing, especially in surburban-hell-Brampton. I wish them luck. Also for some reason I was reminded of Dubai looking at that first picture.

I was just in Seattle, and their light rail system has at grade sections. You can't even tell. It was amazing. They do have crossing arms - the benefit of those is it prevents cars from delaying a train by sneaking in a left turn. This is rapid transit, not streetcars. It should have absolute...

This is certainly interesting news to mull over. Its nice to see him throughing his weight at the subway system, but I wish he'd be gauranteeing the DRL over Scarborough and maybe Sheppard. His offer of taking the city's share of the Line 2 extension while the city can fund Eglinton East is a...

Actually I too have wondered why they don't mesh UPX and Smarttrack into one "Toronto GO" line (half of which has already been built for them...!), but I guess we're getting the Eglinton West LRT out of it so whatever.

I mean its such a short distance, it really should be extended. Why should they have to wait for a tiny extension years down the road when we're building 95% of the line now? Not entirely sure what they're asking for at UofT scarborough though? Two routes? Or did they just forget to take off...

As always, a press release really would have been sufficient.