Connecting the "Kitchen Sink" unofficial trail would be excellent. We'd finally have a safe offroad connection from downtown to the rainbow tunnel! The city done a nice job expanding the little network around the rainbow tunnel, and it'll be great to finally have it as part of the larger system

There is only enough ROW in Etobicoke, North York, and Scarborough. There is absolutely not enough ROW in the former City of Toronto, East York, or York.

It makes complete sense. Bikes are a great last mile solution for subway station to destination connectivity. Bloor-Danforth and Yonge are the subway trunks, therefore they carry all the last mile bike to subway connectivity, therefore they have the highest bike ridership

It does loom menacingly on top of the Bonjour Brioche brunch patio Not streetcar tracks on Queen in the rendering 😒

What we need are separated lanes under the CP underpass on Millwood which will require widening the underpass. When I bought my place in East York a decade and a half ago, I would bike to the Home Depot with my bike trailer for home improvement supplies. That underpass was gnarly and it hasn't...

I don't go into the GO Expansion thread and fantasize about removing the Lakeshore GO lines

You'd have to use an existing designation like paved shoulder

The old bridge is not staying. This project is to raise the clearance on all the bridges between Eastern and Logan to the standard 5m

No, you're looking at realigned and elevated (by ~1m) GO tracks. The final layout is to have 4 GO tracks and 2 Ontario Line tracks. The Ontario Line tracks will both be on the North side, which is on the right in the Queen St photo above. The photos seem to mostly face South.

Pre-surrendering to tyranny so that tyranny can run roughshod over us does not have a good track record. Appeasement fails

Just watched an oversize load rig knock over the pedestrian beg button pole on the NE corner of Pape and Danforth. TIL: Not a bollard. Won't stop a car crash. Edit: Posting in Ontario Line because I'm pretty sure that oversize load rig had just delivered a crane for Ontario Line construction.

Yep, I'll be there on Wednesday

I would argue that there was is on average only empty space between Toronto and Winnipeg, and that any significant percentage of trucks heading north is already going through Sarnia and Michigan instead

It definitely felt like Tatooine at Pape/Danforth last week. Seems a little better today

Amazon is known for stack ranking and trying to have every engineer leave the company after 18 months of employment

I'm pretty sure that the city has long banned street parking on Logan south of the laneway, so the cars you always see there are parked illegally

Trivia: The TTC map showed Queens Quay as a rapid transit line 1990-1993 I do think Finch West is much more of a rapid transit line than Queens Quay and belongs on the map

Aga Khan Station, surely

Neat. I wonder if there's any intention to connect Dickens to Logan or Thackeray to Dundas. The current Dickens connection to Carlaw is pretty awkward

This is not entirely up to date. A lot of the people on suburban TTC buses are commuting to Amazon and similar warehouse jobs. The load distribution on the 416 bus system in 2024 is different from what it was in 2019 As much as the banks are trying to kill WFH to save their office real estate...