New video is up. This is one of 2 I will be making on the topic of the Finch West LRT. This one is the standard historic look at the line (as you probably expect from my videos), while the next one will be an unscripted opinion piece just giving my thoughts on the route after having ridden it...

Okay I get that the line is in need of improvement but there is absolutely zero indication this was ever going to happen. If anything the line would have gotten the Hamilton LRT treatment and be cancelled and then reinstated. Everyone from politicians to engineers knows that Finch West can only...

I don't think its about Ward 24 specifically but Scarborough in general. Ainslie is the Deputy Mayor for Scarborough so perhaps he's living by that role and bringing it up on behalf of the others.

I think the biggest issue with the idea is that there is no way federal regulations would let Line 3's Light-Metro trains run on the same tracks as GO's much larger and heavier trains. As well there are issues with signalling, automation and possibly loading-gauge. All that is to say that it is...

When doing my video for the Finch West Line I read that during testing ML was operating trains up to 60km/h, now of course that was probably without making any stops. Makes me wonder if maybe Metrolinx should be the ones operating the line and not the TTC. Hell has truly frozen over if ML is the...

It's possible it could be the "media" opening. The politicians and media get to take a ride on it and do the photo-ops, then it opens a couple of days later for the rest of use plebeians.

Back in the late 1960's then Mayor of North York "James Service" proposed a massive expansion of Line 2 through North York turning it into a Loop Line. The proposal was for the line to follow the Uxbridge Sub to the Finch Hydro Corridor and then follow it and the Humber-Pearson and Kipling Hydro...

Not a complaint but the right side of the map looks so naked without the SRT. Like looking at Kennedy it feels like there should be something there.

This is tangentially related but when doing some research for my video on the Finch West LRT I found this image of the extension of Line 2 to Kipling. Specifically it shows the TTC once considered constructing a subway yard between Islington and Kipling, so I thought you guys may like to see it.

I just went onto the Toronto Library's website and in this instance searched to see if they had a copy of the "Advanced Rapid Transit Study", they didn't but they did have this "Sheppard/Finch Rapid Transit Corridor Study: final report" at my local branch (Cedarbrae) in the reference section so...

Also here's some maps with ridership forecasts (there a tad blurry). These are done as if the corridor was an inter-regional line running from Pickering to Oakville (GO ALRT Northern Line). The jist of it is that on the Sheppard alignment ridership would peak at 17,500 pphpd in the eastbound...

Finally just an image showing how the Sheppard/Finch lines could have potentially been extended West with and without a connection to GO ALRT:

This second comment is the alignments and technologies examined. The TTC looked at using 40' Buses, 60' Buses, LRT, Light-Metro, and Subway. Ultimately the TTC would decide on a Subway on Sheppard Ave as it could meet future ridership growth and was closer to planed development areas along...

I come baring gifts! I started working on my video about the Finch West Line and for it I went to the library to find some info on plans for crosstown lines in the north end of the city (on Sheppard and Finch). While most of what I found related to everything east of Yonge Street so I didn't pay...

I would hope this is only retirement of older models and not a full step away from artics again. They did this in the early 2000's after the Orion III's were retired only to back-track on the decision in the 2013. Even with the opening of the EC and FW LRT's there are still routes in the city...

"Metrolinx has become a leader in wayfinding design" Okay let's not get ahead of ourselves here...

Ok so this isn't a fantasy map per say but it is fantasy transit related. Many pages back I made a 2D mock-up of a possible VIA HSR livery on a Shinkansen. Well now I have made a 3D model of that mock-up, just on an Alstom Avelia Liberty. I chose the Avelia because it is already in use on the...

That whole area was once part of the Town of West Toronto Junction (or just West Toronto; i've seen it referred to as both). Some interesting facts about the place include it was the only other municipality in York County outside of Toronto with its own local streetcar network operated by the...

Welcome back GO ALRT. (Just proves Bill Davis and James Snow were right and the post-Davis OPC and Peterson Liberals absolutely screwed us in the late 80's.)

Two different naming schemes. The Vaughan extension of Line 1 was a TTC project so it follows the TTC's preferred naming scheme. Pioneer Village for example was supposed to be called "Steeles West" and VMC was simply supposed to be "Vaughan Centre" until politicians started meddling. Also the...