TSP may be important, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. There is no reason why, even sans TSP, the line operates like a 90 year old average citizen of the GTA out for a Sunday drive for a drive. And for that, no one can be blamed but the TTC. The policy should be full power and full...

So, what, we should give the outer boroughs the most expensive, overbuilt toys possible just because they throw large enough temper tantrums? In the old days, we did this crazy thing called planning transit around ridership and density. Now it's thoughts and feelings. If I lived along the 33...

It's not, the plan to rename Dundas Street was dropped ages ago. The only reason the station got renamed is because TMU wanted it to be renamed with their branding. Had they not made the offer, it would have remained as Dundas station.

Nonsense. I was out on the line for several hours today, and the exchange of passengers was universally pretty quick just about everywhere except for the termini. The LRVs took their sweet time leaving the stations for reasons entirely unrelated to boarding time. There was one tram that idled at...

I'm not sure which stop combos you looked at, so I'm not saying you're wrong, but my frame of comparison is the high speed services that run in the outer parts of town, comparable to the Finch line, so those are the representative examples I'm going with. All travel times and distances are...

It's not copium, it's lived experience. I haven't been to any of the named cities, but in a city like Prague or Bratislava, their trams running in Finch style rights of way are speedy and are competitive to the subway (in cities that have one) for short and medium distance journeys.

You're right, chief, discrediting an entire type of transport is way smarter than adjusting our operations to match those that countless cities across the globe engage in every single day... 🙄🙄🙄🙄 All it would take is a flick of a pen to transform the 6 from a slow white elephant into a speedy...

The interurbans didn't run at slow speeds at all, and the downtown streetcars used to nip along quite a bit faster (when traffic permitted) before they were neutered in the name of safety. And a lack of TSP, though a problem, can't be the only factor. Why can't the policy in between lights be...

Nothing traditional about that streetcar mindset. We used to have interurbans running as proto-GO trains! This attitude is very safety conscious and modern.

All we know is that the two people were not known to each other, and the TTC employee pulled the first knife. Whatever the cause was, it's probably reasonable to say that it would have been smarter if she hadn't engaged with that person at all. I doubt we have reached that stage, it's probably...

What the hell is in the water in this city? Between this, and the guy that got stabbed after he started punching a guy for playing music too loud a few years ago... does no one know to mind their own business anymore? Jesus.

My guess is the 30 or 50, as they're the only other routes besides the 40 which have that diagonal angle of travel at the east end. According to Transit Toronto, 50 years ago the late evening frequency on the 30 was 40 minutes, while no frequency is given for the 50, so the latter is my guess.

Prague is the same. The existence of crosstown metro routes in no way resulted in the extinction of long crosstown tram routes, too, even though very few people use them to travel from one end of the city to another. Cutting the 501 in the central section would be a complete own goal. And...

Because corporations famously wouldn't take advantage of a perfectly legal opportunity to not have to follow laws? The fact that the minister is allowed to decide whether it's in the public interest to grant an exemption, and the fact that it will be taxpayers on the hook to deal with the...

Exactly the type of corrupt, cronyist nonsense people would've lost their minds about if it was Ford or PP doing it. Hope the same level of criticism and scrutiny is applied when it's the "good guys" that are doing it.

Because the Ontario line doesn't go where they're going. The line won't even run west of Bathurst on Queen in the first place, and it certainly wouldn't be a smart use of time to head up to line 2 and then use whatever feeder bus is at the nearest station.

MiWay drivers do this regularly at Square One.

And if they had put up maps with only the 6 on them, and had to reprint them a month or two later with the 5 on it, you guys would be complaining at how much money they're wasting.

People think of streetcars as being for long distance because that's how the route network is designed. I think that you're overstating just how transformative the Ontario line will be. We're not building a network here, it is one line, and it will have its target audience in the areas where...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/doug-ford-reveals-when-he-now-expects-the-eglinton-crosstown-lrt-to-open/article_f7dae03a-081e-4b9b-b534-df9b04ed1b51.html "very soon after 2026" might possibly be the most useless qualifier yet???