Some Western liberal democracies have essentially solved those issues. I didn't see addicts or visibly homeless people in Scandinavia either. We have the tools, it's just a question of using them.

Not just technically but in practice. There are LRT systems that have higher top speeds and average speeds than our subway. And they don't even need to be fully grade separated to do it. I'm curious why your question has so many qualifiers. An LRT/tram being in a city without a metro or north of...

Light rail is proper transit when it's done right and it can be just as fast as a subway line. Your continued insistence on subways subways subways is tiresome and unhelpful. Whatever or not you think that the way the line was designed was a mistake, shutting it down for years and spending...

Transit advocates in Toronto have an odd desire to "convert" existing mass transit lines to something higher capacity. This would be extremely disruptive and expensive, potentially costing more than just building new lines. Not to mention completely unnecessary in a city that still has...

The fact that he shares a name with a Hollywood director probably doesn't help.

Yeah, I take back my previous cautious optimism. This is just gimmicky nonsense. But I'm sure it'll make some of DoFo's developer buddies a lot of money, so completely on brand.

My first instinct is that this is a sightseeing attraction that has more in common with the Centreville chairlift than real transportation. But 7.6 km could theoretically go from the GO station to Chippewa and connect to the main tourist areas.

Peterborough is well beyond the GTA. But again, not every train has to stop at every station. There can be a variety of stopping patterns, overlapping services, etc. More stations doesn't mean longer travel times.

It's odd, people talk about a station in the suburbs as if every train has to stop there, which is clearly not the case. It's clear that a lot of people saying adding stations slows down trains aren't all that familiar with how high speed rail networks actually operate. Or even Via Rail for that...

I don't see how Alto would have its Toronto hub anywhere other than Union. I can see the logic in non-optimal stations as an interim measure, but even that seems unlikely for Toronto. Union is by far the biggest station on the highest capacity rail line which is already publicly owned. The...

Why? The GTA is functionally one big city. Transportation demand doesn't stop at municipal boundaries. It's not like our system is so large that it can't be included in a single map.

This map should be on every subway train and station. The platforms at Davisville are covered.

While I agree with the sentiment, even if you limit yourself to Canada there are LRT lines that can legitimately be thought of as rapid transit. You don't even have to leave Ontario to find LRTs that are run somewhat competently.

The whole interface between Bayview and Riverdale Park West is so puzzling. It appears to be a leftover of Bayview essentially being a highway and isolated from the park accordingly. But now that Bayview has been humanized that isolation makes no sense. It really should be redesigned to open up...

Any reduction in demand from cars no longer being parked on the street will likely be more than made up for by increased bus ridership. And that means more customers.

There's been no publicly announced detailed alignment through Toronto that I can recall. Lots of speculation in this thread though.

I'll never understand the fascination certain transit fans have with creating subway loops in the distant suburbs.

As much as I wish we had a public rail network like other countries do, government after government has shown that they have no willingness to create that. A decade ago Via Rail recognized that and decided to be pragmatic and work within those constraints instead of constantly pushing for...

He pushed back against the dogma of modernism and novelty in the world of architecture, where traditional principles are verboten. For that he should be commended.

GO lines not fitting just illustrates how squeezing a system map above the doors doesn't really work. Maybe it was fine for the Toronto of old with 2.5 subway lines and barebones commuter rail, but there just isn't room for our emerging system in that short space.