Honestly I think it would be neat if we did something like in Japan where a little jingle plays before its time for the train to leave. They also have just a buzzer at some stations but that's being phased out. Something like that would be nice, alongside other things I think we should adopt...

I don't think Science Centre should or will be renamed to Don Mills as that name would be better used for a stop at Don Mills and Lawrence on a future northern extension of the OL. Don Mills and Lawrence is actually the centre of the long forgotten Village of Don Mills while Don Mills & Eglinton...

Why do none of the plans include an extension of the Stouffville Line to Uxbridge? Is it a track ownership issue? Honestly the proposed extensions to London and Brantford seem like they would be better served by increased VIA Rail service. We know a trip from London to Toronto on GO was like 4...

I don't think its an issue of having enough Bi-Level coaches. I think it's an issue of if we have enough locomotives to run all of this service. Speaking of which what's even the plan for the electric locos? Are we just going to convert are current ones to electric (do we even have enough for...

Another thing that was once in the area but is just out of view in your image is the dumping area the TTC had just next to Avon Loop (at Rogers Road and Weston). It was accessed from a spur track off of the Weston Streetcar and I believe the TTC dumped ash (among other things) from their power...

I would prefer both extensions are done simultaneously (or the construction of one starts while the other is still be worked on) since we have seen in this city that differing parts of a project to "future phases" has had mixed results. Either we get lucky with a situation like Line 2 in the...

The problem is the Millwood Viaduct wasn't designed to carry a subway on a lower deck it was only built to carry streetcars on its road deck (streetcars that would never come). So that would have needed to be retrofired on and the bridge reinforced. The other issue is running under the viaduct...

I am glad you enjoyed this one, it was a pain in the ass to put together. Trying to take 30 separate scripts, compiling them into a single timeline, and then making a 1 hour long animation for it was a long process. It's ultimately something I have wanted to do though since I started the...

I certainly doesn't need to be an either or, as Scarborough definitely needs improvements for both local transit and GO service. Better service on the LSE and Stouffville Lines as well as better accessibility to them would certainly help. For example I think cutting the Lawrence East stop on the...

New video up. A timeline of Toronto's streetcar network (to the best of my knowledge).

I know the idea had been floated around during the latter days of the SmartTrack era but I don't recall it ever being discussed at a high level. I don't think anyone with any power or influence was actively talking about it. By that point the SSE had been coronated as the solution to...

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The closest to the Ontario Line trains would have to be the trains used on the Honolulu Skyline which are also made by Hitatchi since to me it would make sense that we would buy trains with similar specs to a pre-existing model already in use in the states. The biggest difference between ours...

I think what you might be thinking of was the very brief proposal of an LRT line from Queen Street to Scarborough via the Lake Shore GO Line with a branch to STC via the Canadian Northern ROW and another branch to Morningside Avenue. It came about in the 70's in the aftermath of the Scarborough...

The only real extension for the SRT considered was one to Malvern (or Sheppard Ave at the very least). It does appear though that the alignment changed since originally the extension would have used the old Canadian Northern ROW but eventually they abandoned that in favor of following the...

The Etobicoke RT was planned to run from Kipling Station to Pearson with a potential branch line to York University (or Dufferin Street). It would have been built in the hydro corridors in the area and used CLRV cars like the original SRT plan. The ERT never really made it far into planning so...

So for routes like the 102 which stop on the street, do they just run through the bus loop and then turn back onto Warden to serve their stop? I wonder why the TTC didn't build something bigger so all routes could stop at the temp terminal instead of on street. Is it because they didn't want to...

When it comes to a western extension of the OL I have been thinking of perhaps something a bit more unorthodox. Assuming we don't just follow the DRL plan and go north up Roncessvalles to Dundas West here's 3 possible western extensions. OPTION 1: Extension to Sherway Gardens via Queensway For...

Oh yea I forgot, my apologies. Still on the topic of were the 504 rejoins King Street, even on Dundas I would assume it would have to be south on Church Street. It's either that or Parliament.

The way I am reading that is, North of Dufferin, and the east on Queen. I don't understand the diversion up McCaul to Dundas... Why not go east along Queen to Church and then south back to King? Westbound cars could stay on King to York and then run north to Queen.