You'd need to build a giant structure over Corktown Common. Not going to happen I think. I'm not sure how many minutes a 3 km deep tunnel buys. Not enough to justify the cost I think. Besides, arriving in a city and seeing the central core is kind of a nice experience.

A few people are not going to conform to the quickest theoretical trip scenario, especially when they experience the very long transfers at Yonge and Osgoode. I lived in Hong Kong and frequently took the tram or double decker just to enjoy the view and avoid the crush of the subway.

It seems as though they are debating turning UP into either a frequent segregated line with more stops, or even a branch of the Ontario Line. Either could work. Then the GO line could have fewer stops in the city.

The planning document, which has some tech problem making it slow to examine, admits that the proposal does not comply with guidelines on the size of the floorplate or separation between towers. In other words, please let us jam a big tower on our lot right up against the big tower someone else...

I always thought cutting an arch through the silos would be fun, since it's unlikely any meticulously preserved and fetishized Toronto silo will actually be repurposed for anything.

Another yellowing clipping....

Here we go again: Heritage = what I consider pretty.

Here's some more mappy speculation. Notice below two parallel lines of dots from Toronto to Peterborough, and then the dots that are north of a straight line between Peterborough and Ottawa. Then take in the dots quite to the south of Ottawa. This is evidence they actually got out on the land...

That's exactly the route I was suggesting in the first map I put in. I think VIA bought it decades ago and then sold it just before it started to seem useful again. It's the shortest route between Ottawa and Montreal, has mostly curves of 2 or 3 km radius, and not many constraints around it...

You don't go through Gatineau or the Senate. Although some earlier studies proposed using what are now O Train tracks and across into Gatineau, that would entail a new station at what is now Bayview and scores of grade separations. I think the door is closed. I'm talking about a route as...

At the risk of reading too much into some dots on a vague map, maybe I gave too short a shrift to nfitz's remark about the north shore of the Ottawa. I drove that route from Oka to Ottawa through Gatineau this summer, and while much of it goes through villages and is a non-starter for HSR, you...

When eventually they build the BRT, they will need to revise the plan to break up the long block between Solandt and Terry Fox, and put a stop roughly where the "lifestyle street" is. This would help with the densification and redevelopment of the properties to the SW and along Legget. Should...

No, three routes. The existing one, a diversion along the straighter CPKC right of way to the south, and the abandoned but less curvy and easier to straighten line to the north. You can see all three in this snip from OpenRailwayMap. The advantage to using one of the alternate routes is that...

Is Doug Ford a boomer or GenX? He was born in 1964. Douglas Coupland was born in 1961 was under the impression that his book was about his own generation. At any rate, DoFo stopped believing in subways at some point during the goblin mode hangover of the pandemic, and now believes, as do sadly...

I checked the city's heritage designation list, and it appears this building was added in 2024. The owners - not sure what they were smoking - seriously thought that the city was going to roll over and let them demolish one of the real gems in this part of the city while vast acres in the...

Well, one organization is full of lawyers, and the other is by definition all lawyers. What do you expect? Lawyers are making money on the standoff. (And cops.)

That nonsensical, I mean mischievous, post about extreme bends has rattled around in a couple of threads. For perspective, the inner curves at King and Church are about 44 feet in radius. The perilous Kostco Killer Kurve would appear to be over 600 feet according to the EA plans. I think the...

Well, it could be done such that the LRT has priority and the walk signal activates when a 100-tonne tram isn't bearing down on pedestrians, but one holds out little hope.

Not sure where you're getting this from. I don't see anything at all to indicate that they have shifted from the initial concept of a link that moves steadily up in three stages from the platform to the "highline" level. It's not shown in the renderings because the hospital and the NCC aren't...

But of course said LRT, streetcar that is, was supposed to be built long ago, according to the Transit First policy hallucination. That's where Toronto failed big and hard.