I mean it’s true in both cases… it’s just that that only really means that the corridor geometry will accommodate rail.

I think any real conclusions on the Don Branch have to wait on VIA as well… it’s a temping approach for HFR, albeit with a lot of the same problems as above… otoh, through running Milton trains would probably help more than hurt unions capacity, especially if a fly under is built to Don trains...

agree totally on the east/west s-bahn (maybe a couple more stations in Kitchener though) but a tram train down Hespeler Rd seems a better fit for the Fergus service. I do like the concept of an Elmira train as an alternative to more highway expansion in the rural areas, though I grant it’s a...

My three notes would be that: a genuinely local line from Guelph to New Hamburg would very nicely finish the triangle and mostly piggyback on GO infrastructure; Once I start including Guelph in Waterloo Region mapping I’m inclined to toss in an extension of the Milton train to Guelph via the...

I’m guessing closer to RapidTO than anything that developed, but yeah, the corridors could all support it. Frankly if I had my way the approach to this would be similar to LA Metro in the early days of Rapid…. Less setting a desired level of imrpovements than providing the maximum level that...

Has anyone said this shit? no. They haven’t. there have been objections to racialzed language on the lines of literal ’those peoples’. there have been comments about financial hardship. there have been comments about vulnerable and exploited populations. there have been notes about larger...

You also don't necessarily NOT need it given, you know, the location of the likes of Bramalea station. And none of these solutions address the availability of charging infrastructure at downtown bike storage facilities, let alone what that kind of storage is going to cost. We've got a lot of...

I mean yes... but it's also quite fair to observe that we probably don't want to be transporting bicycles en masse in a generalized long term way for pure efficiency reasons. These couriers really are something of a niche that is causing a lot of headaches at the moment... and a niche the...

I rather suspect in the near term we are going to need to accommodate the bikes… As much as no other jurisdiction really carries them in numbers, the combination of market pressures that got us here is also fairly unique. In most places these couriers would, quite frankly, be driving gas...

The tweaks are all well and good, but I think it’s probably more important to make a decision early and definitely as to whether an MCC diversion is intended, on the table now or not.

Honestly, anybody want to take odds on the Ontario Line getting named for Rob?

I do have to wonder what the outcome would be if Brampton were told they need to commit 1/3 and will be given funding for either underground to the station or a surface route to Mayfield.

I’d support a nuclear power thread.

I'd also add that even with the multiple branches it's gained the network structure in Scarborough, especially in terms of things branching off Kingston Road is fairly sprawling. Something based on bus enhancement can easily provide significant benefit to all areas and riders... Eglinton East is...

Ugh; as much as I like the aesthetics of the Eglinton East project I am starting to come around on further showcasing improved bus service in the area... 4 billion isn't terrible when you consider that the Cambridge Ion extension is going to be a similar cost, but that speed issue is...

I agree that Don Mills really isn't reasonable without an incredibly awkward junction probably necessitating the reconstruction of the eastern portal... Leslie though has a lot of room around on the surface a decent incentive to reconfigure everything to maintain functional separation (or at...

To be clear though... very little of any significant size happens in Toronto without needing some kind of site specific zoning. I really don't see any likely Council turning down even vaguely sane requests from Sunnybrook.

On the one hand, yeah, it's pretty out there to posit that a major hospital isn't a big enough trip generator to get a station... On the other this is Toronto. Our performance metrics really AREN'T comparable in most terms to other North American rapid transit networks, and by our standards...

TBH I have my doubts; Mississauga getting Milton line electrification and diversion (to MCC) is so much more attractive than any of the subway options... while all the eastern Sheppard extensions beg for a connection to LSE that really only works at Rouge Hill or Pickering and would be so much...

My alternative would be to divert south, include a station but stick it deep inside the Sunnybrook campus.