Amen to that. I find it very hard to take him seriously anymore.

Good point.

Yes it was, but within 3 years after the Yonge subway opened, ridership exploded. It went from 4-car to 8-car trains in that same period. Bloor didn't have the ridership either. That came about 10 years later. University, the original DRL, was a white elephant for 20 years after it was...

Ah ... in that case, even the underground Eglinton section doesn't count as true rapid transit. There's a reason the TTC refuses to extend a converted SRT in anything other than an exclusive ROW ... service reliability and headway regularity.

In your TC map, Eglinton should go all the way to Kennedy. You also forgot the Sheppard and Finch LRTs. But BRT, which can offer express service (ie. passing in the oncoming BRT lane), or leap-frog even-odd stop servicing, isn't sexy with the LRT advocates. It must have steel wheels you see...

The entire Transit City plan, as unveiled in 2007, is estimated at close to $20 BILLION now. That's a far cry from the original $6B that was floated around back then. Are you guys seriously mental? Spending $20 billion dollars on streetcars? You guys are twisting your hair curlers too tight.

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A 30% increase -- 130,000 per day in 1969. Ridership on University decreased by 20% over that same period.

I rode the Bloor streetcar in 1965, and it could very well have continued as a streetcar line. I take it you got that 9,000 number from Steve Munro's website. Well, Steve conveniently fails to mention that that 9,000 was at the peak point ONLY, and for maybe just 2 hours a day. When the...

That's what Transit City stations should look like.

Scarborough wasn't shortchanged with a 2nd class system. When the RT was proposed, it was conceived as a futuristic and state-of-the-art elevated system -- an automated mini-subway. There was even going to be an Etobicoke RT. Scarborough was the envy of the other boroughs. That I remember.

I don't hate it. Again, I'm showing my age, but in 1981 there was a naming contest in the papers for the RT, and as a joke, I submitted the name "the holly trolley".

I think he meant extending it "underneath" on a different alignment.

The part where I lose my seat. The part where I have to let 1-2 trains pass before I can board. That doesn't happen at Kennedy -- BD trains are empty, so passengers always get a seat. They get a seat the other way (on the RT) too. And, the crowds are nothing compared to B-Y or St. George.

The subway system already goes to STC. The RT *is* a grade-separated rapid transit "subway" that simply uses a different technology. You're better off taking that $2-$3 billion earmarked for BD and using it to extend the RT deeper into Scarborough instead. OK, so you have that transfer at...

What's the big deal with the transfer? You're transferring to an empty B-D train at Kennedy and you're getting a seat. I'm 60 (I know, a little too old to be posting here) but I remember that the transfer at St. George didn't bother me until the Spadina line opened and southbound trains came...

Keep the transfer, and upgrade the SRT to Mark-II. Why spend billions extending the subway to STC when the RT already is a subway. Oh yeah, the transfer, I forgot ... well, big deal. There's a much more inconvenient transfer at St. George (that wasn't there originally) but nobody seems to...

A distinction must be made between street-median light rail vs. express light rail running in CN/CP corridors, hydro ROWs, etc. I have no problem with a Finch Hydro ROW light rail line, but spending billions on *street-median* LRT in Toronto is a waste. Yes, you're serving more people than a...

I guess you guys are too young to remember the transfer-free subway system at St. George in the 60s. Surprisingly, a lot of people from the east still transferred because it was faster vs. taking the longer one-seat ride

Is this developer any good? I bought at a nearby condo (11 Christie) and got burned.