France can do that because their rail system is excellent. Nobody would call today's VIA "excellent", and it still won't be excellent for YVR-YYZ in a hundred years. Flights are a necessary evil in a country the size of Canada, though various versions of rail should be used to reduce the need...

And a 24 minute headway to Limebank where people actually live? If the ridership required it, they would have designed a larger airport shuttle. Uplands is not going to have Park and Ride. The remaining Trillium Line is out of the way for Riverside South, and Limebank will also be fed by...

Frequency. The line north of South Keys can only handle a train every 12 minutes, interlining would mean that each branch gets 24 minute frequency.

Any new neighbourhood built in Toronto will become a "haven for the rich" today. Doesn't make building housing a bad idea.

See this quote from the press release: They really do want to abolish all upper-tier governance. Perhaps this is a strong mayor-style thing. Do it because he wants to screw with Toronto, but include other cities just to distract everyone. This is probably a Mississauga-driven exercise...

People care far more about tax cuts and subsidies (to themselves - all deserved, of course. Nobody else should get these handouts though!) than about good public services. If you ask most people if they're in favour of childcare, better hospitals, transit, schools, and roads, they'll say yes...

Thanks for the response. I knew it wasn't so simple - we've really dug ourselves into a big mess haven't we ... ?

Uh, yes, we probably are. I blame the Americans. Seriously, I think the cause is American-style culture leeching north of the border. People pride themselves on working 6 days a week for years on end (see: SSP) but that's not healthy and doesn't result in higher productivity. That said, it...

The NML or SML? Most proposals I see use the Guelph Sub, which is not a mainline and whose acquisition would be far less disruptive (according to CN/CP - could we call it CNP? Sounds catchy!) to the freight cos. It could very well be that they don't have the money to go to CNP. Even if they all...

European countries are desperately trying to get more freight onto trains. Are you suggesting we do the opposite? Please describe how spending billions of dollars nationalizing a freight system that works fine is a sensible use of transit dollars. It would still use billions of dollars. CP...

These are fringe use cases, not really worth the time and effort to service them with public transit. Buy a car or make a transfer. There might be a million people on the Lakeshore corridor, but those stops slow down TOM trips. The schedule isn't designed for Lakeshore trips either, so...

The Americans are subsidizing EVs. Do we let our remaining industries atrophy and die? Our country already has a lack of value-add jobs. We sit around complaining about that, then we complain that they are going to add these jobs, creating a battery supply chain in the process. If you look at...

Solution: we put a sign under the GO and YRT logos, that say "buses to York Region/regional buses". Do this at all multi-agency terminals. There. Problem solved.

This is a whataboutism. I would love to see something useful on the Ex parking lots, but that's not being actively proposed. Ontario Place is being actively proposed, and a spa/waterpark and parking lot isn't going to improve the land use.

This is the new unified design standard the TTC is rolling out on all of our subway stations.

Which may or may not have been the best use of waterfront land in Downtown Toronto. Like the waterfront airport, the Ontario Place lands are about opportunity cost. Is "an attraction like Wonderland" the best use of the land? And our taxpayer dollars? Even if they only wanted the land, I'd be...

There's definitely some bad intentions to keep housing prices high at the GoC. Nobody's has the explicit goal of screwing over young people but they are essentially saying that "housing prices shall remain unaffordable ... and you shall like it." As for 24 Sussex, the whole thing is just an...

Goodness, I don't think even the next election is predictable, what with this economy and other stuff (and the vote share last election), nevermind 2034.

The stupid Rogers-Shaw merger is approved. The federal government says that this will bring prices down (are they crazy)? One consultant called the Competition Bureau stubborn. Oh those stubborn bureau people! Actually wanting low prices! Sigh.

The rest of the province is paying for Toronto's transit projects. If we make everything about petty regional differences, nothing will ever get done.