i was on the airtrain yesterday and it was -6 at the time. it was functioning perfectly...

i grew up in the beaches so for those too many long 501 trips home, looking south out of the window as we passed bright st. always seemed to make the trip worth it.

OK fine, but isn't the exercise here to compare porter to a potential HSR line? i'm not going to dispute the fact that i'd rather fly porter than take via, but the whole point of this discussion is that given an HSR option, even flying wouldn't be competitive.

not to mention envoronmentally destructive to boot. Beez, you're forgetting that Porter only takes you to Dorval, not Station Centrale. So you either have to pay $40 for a taxi ride downtown, still adding at least another 40 minutes to the trip, or you take the bus, another bus and then the...

it's not a $10 billion project--the total cost is more in the area of $35-40 billion (sacramento-SD). the $10B bond is only a way to get the project started so that the state can eventually put it into the budget as a line item. also, now that obama is in the whitehouse with biden, one of the...

i feel proud to have voted for prop 1A yesterday in san diego. and as much as prop 8 pains me, i have faith the it ultimately won't go through since it requires serious constitutional rearranging which cannot be done without 2/3rds legislative approval. since the house and senate are democratic...

do you think montreal only deserves consideration because "the seperatists would whine if it wasn't the recipient of federal monies"? have you ever been to montreal? maybe you should spend more time reading, travelling and talking to people before you make such absurd statements as that.

ergo, that is what makes vancouver a boring city.

just a suggestion interchange: if you aren't already looking at www.kayak.com i suggest you do. i live in San Diego during the school year and i bought a flight from SD to BUF return on United for only $260...

that's doubtful--i flew in from san diego last week into buffalo and i'm flying out to germany in a few days. if i had gone straight to pearson, i would have paid more than $2000 vs the $1400 i paid going through buffalo. likewise, i'll be back in september and the cost of SAN-BUF is only $260...

thanks CDL. i suppose you might be right but whenever i take the spadina streetcar it always seems to be rather counter-productive having to wait for the light to go green, cross and then stop again.

i'm sure this has been asked many times before but after looking at the photos of the new construction, I just can't understand why the stops are on the other side of the traffic lights...! it adds so much time to the trip, particularly since there isn't signal priority and i don't see an...

must be hard work for that crane to hold up the dirty dancing poster all day.

the blue line normally operates with 6 car trains except during the summer when it's reduced to 4. U of M isn't as heavily used in the summer so one of the major trip generators on the line is essentially missing for 4 months. I used to live at Outrement station: it's not inconvenient since the...

it may new york in genus but there isn't actually such a thing as a lower west side. so, i would think that it's technically up for grabs. considering the layout of toronto's downtown i think it fits. but, then it implies we have an upper and middle west side, which would be what, the university...

i think the biggest problem we have in toronto right now is that there are those in charge of planning (or have the ear of the planners) who not only refuse to learn from mistakes in the past, ie: spadina, st. clair, etc., but are using the wrong models for emulation. why, in a midwest city...

brilliant!

you mean an aesthetic object dated precisely from the 1980's that while having a significant 'oooh' factor doesn't really provide much in the way of utility?

i don't really see the need for 4 N/S subways in the core, particularly if there is already a DRL in place. I imagine that much of the overcrowding on Yonge would divert to the DRL and with a more effective regional system, people would rely less on subways to get around. It's a beautiful...

Here was Giambrone's response to my letter. I love how absolutely no details of the plan are revealed other than the fact that it is after some kind of 'european model'. Connexions (read: Transfers) are apparently a good thing. -------------- Dear Mr. Hall, Thank you for your email...