I wonder if it may be, at least in Toronto, for filling in gaps (ie. Collector/Express on the 401 between 409 and 427). That seems more likely than tunnelled lanes across the entirety of Toronto. It seems as though some of this money is for SOGR/rehab work as well. Now that the Gardiner and DVP...

I distinctly remember election reform being part of Trudeau's 2015 election platform, an election which he won with a majority. I am pretty sure the LPC abandoned that promise with barely any fanfare at all (was it 2017?) This smells like last-minute political pandering (to distract from...

Toronto (təˈɹɑnoʊ), verb: to settle and make excuses for the status quo, rather than expend extra effort for a good solution. It’s great to see improved transit, but given the $1.2 billion capital cost and $2.5 billion total cost, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to wonder if we can create...

I'm pretty sure we have. Google "Bombardier Thunder Bay" and "UTDC" and you'll see where that went. As @kEiThZ said, it's not only about job creation, but industry creation. Our economy is based off real estate extortion and raw materials, and other places are paying companies to set up EV...

If we want to go that way, The Corridor. Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal first, then Quebec City and Corridor West (Hamilton, London, Windsor, Kitchener, whatever). The rest is all fantasy. Perhaps a 50/50 funding split with the provinces on Banff/Calgary/Edmonton, and Halifax/Moncton/St. John. Those...

The next batch of projects - Hurontario, OL, EWLRT, SSE, and GO RER - are scheduled to open across the latter half of this decade to the early 2030s. If those don't get screwed up - tough ask, I know - the public will forget Crosstown, especially if they're riding it by then (and it works...

The "self" in "self-determination" obviously refers to the person Doug Ford was thinking of when he decided who would determine the municipalities' futures ...

Slower than what? Grade separated? Sure, but there’s stop spacing to consider for that too. Consolidation is possible - though not necessarily desirable - on the surface. Also, speed is not the end-all-be-all. Many streetcar trips are local trips, and higher speeds, wider stop spacing, and...

A bit late, but ... OC Transpo Bus Route Review V2 (I think this one is a little out of date). The OC Transpo Bus Route Review has been released. And ... CBC: Transit riders disappointed by OC Transpo fare increase. We're not alone in cutting service. OC Transpo is slated to cut 3.5% of...

Nobody does circular transit debates as well as UT. LOL. Contributing my own little segment of the circle, the goal of all wayfinding should be for a new traveller to know whether to hop on the next train whose doors are closing in 10 seconds, correctly and easily. To that end, station names...

We are failing everyone - both our own people and newcomers - with our crazy housing market. I'd argue our only obligation is to our existing citizens and residents (in that order) to create a better country, and immigration may or may not be a part of that, refugees aside (the only immigrants...

Just so you know ... if I get an aspirin/headache relief overdose, I'll definitely blame this thread. We're going round in circles and it's making me dizzy. Can we please stop feeding the fantasy bear?

I question the reliability of these lists, especially after COVID. BART is certainly not doing 80% cost recovery this year. Out of the services listed, how many are operating coverage feeder bus services? If we broke out farebox recovery by modes, I think the subway would be break even, or...

This one? Owned by Metrolinx. The problem is frequency. You're cutting Union-bound frequency in half on LSW, and the track connection doesn't solve the problem of CP owning the Midtown Corridor. Besides, we have a perfectly good corridor through downtown. Just through-run trains onto LSE...

Freedom of speech is a fundamental right. Unless they have broken some law(s), there is absolutely no reason whatsoever to deport them. I would go as far as to say that anyone advocating for such is anti-democratic.

So, the LPC's current arse-stupid TFW/immigration policy isn't the result of misguided rainbows-unicorns-fairies thinking, but a deliberate attempt to subsidize our lovely oligarchies, drive down wages, and drive up housing prices for our entrenched upper-middle class voters? And the big man...

Unless you want fare integration to be delayed to 2026, funding it as-proposed and making improvements later on will produce better results. I agree that your scenarios should, in a perfect world, get the same subsidy. But we have our municipal borders (fiefdom boundaries?) and I don't think any...

A tunnelled LRT? Who is going to benefit, and what's the ridership increase, for $10 billion? If you want fast, crosstown transit, expand the Ontario Line. If you want reliable local transit, expand the pilot project. A car-light (with enforcement) or car-free King Street would have the space...

There isn't EXO dedicated track, the way Metrolinx owns the territory on LSE/LSW/(most of) Kitchener/Stouffville/Barrie. EXO owns the former Deux Montagnes line and short sections of Mascouche, Vaudreil, and St. Jerome, but it's not something you can RER-ify. Can't upgrade anything without track...

Metro Trains was named as such in 2009 - this is three years before the Sydney Metro as-built was conceived. Boston puts the Green Line on its T maps. I think the Philly subway-surface lines get a different branding (just look at the name). As for Eglinton, all we need to do was turn on...