Oh its going to be used for much longer than a year...

Well a year was lost due to the TTC's incompetence in failing to perform a TPAP to make changes to the corridor. Also new design features needed to be incorporated such as barriers between the ROW and the Stoufville corridor GO tracks as per request by Metrolinx. Also general lack of political...

Even east of Pioneer Village it seems like the 960 serves every other stop!

100% agree. The TTC has this all across its network and it's infuriating. For example, the 984 "express" has stops of both sides of Bathurst street. The 960 Steeles West Express has insane stop density for an express service and I don't know why they brand it as an express service as it is...

Looks like they're almost at Lawrence East?

Ehh is a Tara stop really needed? Seems like it would add unnecessary travel time...

I think this has to do more with the TTC than Metrolinx (regarding the ECLRT situation as well). The lawsuits accuse the TTC of making unreasonable requests to repair "deficiencies" across every inch of the entire line, and Metrolinx just goes along with it because they don't have any internal...

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/scarborough-pays-the-price-of-transit-foot-dragging-a-year-after-the-ttc-shuttered-the/article_6715ae62-6ba2-11ef-aab7-8ba578055a09.html “The foot dragging on that project is typical of everything that’s gone on with Scarborough planning,” said Munro. “I’m fully...

Which is another shortfall of a low floor LRV design. The wheel wells take up half the space in the interior and make awkward seating positions. This is true for the Flexity at least, however the Citadis for Line 6 seems much better designed and seems more like a "true" LRV. Maybe there...

Those 1-3 kilometer spacings are way too short for a GO train to operate efficiently over. You're forgetting a GO train isn't a subway and takes much longer to accelerate/brake, with a typical set needing up to 2KMs to brake and stop safely within a station. If we add stop density within that...

I think people at least here are beginning to see the problem with the design choices taken with the ECLRT. We have a pseudo subway in the west paired up with a glorified streetcar in the east, I think operational issues will be inevitable due to the distinct modes of operation. We may even...

No! Stop adding stops on GO lines. Just have people get off at Kennedy and take the busway if this is your suggestion. Exactly, GO trains aren't suited for inner-city commuting at all, especially in that area...

One thing I also don't hope to see on Line 5. The Flexity Outlooks on Toronto's streetcar system seem to have alot of rocking and general "instability" when accelerating and coming to a stop (and even some during static motion). Is this something we're also going to see on Line 5 due to the low...

Oh yeah I completely overlooked high floor LRVs. They would definitely work better.

How difficult would it be to retrofit the tunnelled section for heavy rail operation? From what I understand the ECLRT tunnels are pretty narrow and wouldn't support a typical sized subway vehicle like the TR/T1, which means we would need a specialized vehicle or a heavy (and expensive) rebuild...

It's unfortunate that Toronto fell for the now declining LRT fad that struck North America. I've always believed that a subway along Eglinton (and in Scarborough) would serve our needs much better, especially in the future since the region has seen record growth over the years...

I agree, a permanent busway would be immensely more useful and logical instead of replacing it with a park (at least between Kennedy and the former Ellesmere stations). I don't think demand would particularly drop either once the subway opens since the routing has been shifted considerably to...

Does anyone know the progress of the TTC actually tearing up the tracks? The notice says work should've started in mid-September, but to me it seems the guideway hasn't even been touched yet. It's nearly November now. More unnecessary and unexplained delays...