Isn't intensification already planned for all these sites? Cummer/Drewry is part of "North York Centre", and I read that the plan was being extended north to Steeles. I remember being shown the Langstaff Gateway Secondary Plan and being impressed by the amount of density planned. The new...

I used to often transfer at Dorval's intermodal station in Montreal to the AMT (Montreal's GO.) The underground passageway acted as a greenhouse, and it was filled with tropical plants. It was gorgeous to see, especially in the dead of winter when it would be ~20 degrees below outside. I'd...

A few comments: The new route seems excessively curvey, which is going to reduce train speeds. I'm not sure why they don't go diagonally towards the rail corridor/407 intersection from after Royal Orchard. It's almost as though the amount of tunneling they save by not going north on Yonge is...

I hope the $400 million fund announced by the federal government can fund most of these trails. I'm especially looking forward to eventually having a continuous trail from the West Don Trail (T15) to the Don River all the way from Dufferin/Steeles to the Martin Goodman Trail.

Thanks for sharing. Interesting how all of downtown Brampton is a "flood plain" but not the park space directly bordering Etobicoke creek (Meadowland Park, Centennial Park). From this map it looks like instead of Main street the Hurontario LRT might as well be extended along Etobicoke creek for...

I'm a bit confused by the preferred options, since the two options that would make the most sense to me weren't even present in the long list of options. These would be either: Dedicated centre lanes through downtown (either as a transit mall or without the bike lanes) A tunnel for the ~600...

In Ontario we haven't fully appreciated the benefits of elevated transit in the way that Vancouver has and that Montreal has recently discovered. Personally I think that is 100% the way to go, especially in suburban contexts where setbacks are wide. The cost premium over at-grade LRT isn't...

Has that been settled yet? Last I heard Legault said it was a "federal responsibility" so the province didn't need to fund it and they pulled out of the cost sharing after the feds offered to cover the ADM portion. Ontario can barely get federal funding for their projects, maybe Ford can get...

The current mayor's plan was originally to extend the metro up that way with the pink line. The new "REM of the East" largely accomplishes the same thing but without providing the additional coverage in dense areas like the Plateau/Rosemont. The other upside is the lack of heat cycling on...

They're already guaranteed an ROI: they get a large subsidy per rider-kilometer, they get government money if they fail to turn a profit, and other guarantees like a non-compete clause. The fact that the money they make goes to people's pensions is the sketchy part to me - the lines between...

I wouldn't say that corruption is a 1970's thing. When I moved to Montreal in 2014 there hadn't been a democratic transition of mayor in a few years since the previous two had both been arrested for corruption. There are some shady things with the REM, nothing as overt as the WE Charity...

It's bizarre that Quebec has delegated responsibility for transit planning to a pension fund instead of using the ARTM agency that they created for that express purpose. But at least they have been getting some results from it.

Famed Toronto Transit chronicler James Bow also wrote about this thought experiment WHAT IF THE QUEEN SUBWAY WAS BUILT INSTEAD OF THE BLOOR-DANFORTH?

Doesn't the SSE to Sheppard preclude the through-routing with Line 2? I remember there was a push for the "Big Bend" proposal, which would have turned Line 2 towards Sheppard, but that was back when it was a single-stop "Express subway." You forgot to add the DRL and its extension to Sherway...

Is growth really so significant that siphoning off a third of peak ridership and increasing train frequency isn't enough to handle all the new riders? Before the pandemic, the vast majority of North American transit systems (with the rare exceptions of Seattle and Vancouver) were seeing...

Yes, the report says "Even with the implementation of the Ontario Line, capacity improvement is required before the Line 1 extension to Richmond Hill is in service" but it doesn't provide any justification for that statement. The city did a full study on what the impact of the Relief Line would...

I'm surprised this is going forward. One of the benefit line items for the DRL/OL is that you get to avoid doing this work. $1 billion dollars gets you half of Vancouver's Canada line: we're spending that to get a couple staircases and not improve rapid transit coverage by 1 meter. Why not put...

Ah it's good that the airport portion isn't in jeopardy. I know that they were looking for government financing for that branch, considering airports aren't exactly flush with cash right now...

Waymo isn't the only autonomous taxi service now, GM's Cruise coincidentally got approval just two days after Waymo: https://in.pcmag.com/cars-auto/138624/gm-cruise-approved-to-test-fully-driverless-cars-in-san-francisco

I'll take your word on it, I left Montreal early last year. And before I left, I mostly switched to biking since it seemed to be by far the best/fastest way to get around the city. I loved the Transit App, but I found that it seemed to be schedule-based instead of GPS-based (the STM bus-network...