Yes. Or use a proprietary Bombardier technology.

You can't have both third rail and low platforms at a station. Pick ONE: High Floor Vehicles + Dual mode compatible (Third Rail and pantograph) Low Floor Vehicles + Only pantograph (Ignoring some non-standard technology using batteries) High floor LRTs are used in cities such as LA, San...

The "Airport Zone" referred to in that report is larger than the entire Town of Oakville.

Street Right-of-way Widths Map: http://www1.toronto.ca/planning/3-rightofway-widths.pdf Realistically, Transit City-model surface LRT requires at least 30, if not 33, metres of width on a street in order to be built. Other than through the Eglinton Flats, this width only exists north of Hwy...

Threads merged and renamed.

Toronto-York Spadina subway extension $400M over budget http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/spadina-subway-cost-1.3404472

Since there is already a station named Centennial on the GO network, and since there's a station on the previously proposed Scarborough LRT that would be called Centennial College, I think there might be some push back against that name.

That's my map. There's another version which includes employment. It would be good to remake it with 2011 data, but with no long form there's no reliable place of employment data.

Thanks for the added context. I honestly thought the Eglinton "short turns" lasted much longer.

Wouldn't that keep them *in* the bike lanes and no-parking areas? Seriously though, why don't we use wheel clamps/boots here? They seem like such an effective deterrent.

LOL. I like how the list is an implicit admission that cab drivers haven't been doing those things. How many of those are a resolution to try and follow the law? Three out of six?

There seems to be an element of an "at the discretion of the operator" policy, which will inevitably cause issues. This is a really substantial change in the roles and responsibilities for TTC operators, and I hope TTC management is taking sufficient effort to communicate these changes to their...

Pretty busy, but they did run two-car trains during some off-peak times. For years half of peak period northbound trains short turned at Eglinton. For years the University Subway was closed on weekends. It's certainly not the same as Sheppard (for one, downtown employment projections panned...

To elaborate, changing from the subway to the SRT involves going up three floors. Subway > Mezzanine > Bus > SRT There is that one escalator that skips the mezzanine level. Depending on what part of the train you get off of, or if you're travelling in the counter-peak direction, there's a good...

It's a mistake in rapid transit planning to think that the primary justification for a route is the density immediately adjacent to the corridor. When around 70% of travellers access rapid transit by connecting from local transit, a corridor could have high adjacent density and still not be...

Is anyone else being simultaneously amused and frustrated by how clueless and unhelpful the TTC's @TTChelps Twitter account can be? They're clearly trying, but sometimes they really miss the mark. There's a good number of posts along the lines of people complaining about 45 min waits for a...

Steve Munro points out on Twitter that Transit City style LRT constitutes the "low end of LRT". I agree completely. It's foolish to call Transit City a streetcar, but in many ways it is close to the streetcar end of the scale. Perhaps part of the solution to opposition to LRT is to demand that...

It's not just what you're saying. How you're saying it matters too.

For those not included, I'm a fan of Lawrence West. Unfortunately, you can't really experience its architecture from the train where you are instead exposed to some of the dirtiest walls on the entire system. The great tile artwork is can be enjoyed by drivers on the Allan Rd (but is invisible...

Yup. Another example of a rolling stock that can work on both third rail and overhead wire.