A first time EV, vs Tesla which has been making EVs for years and still routinely turns out crap. If not toyota, then it'll be VW, or BYD or some other manufacturer

Just for you, I will note that Willowdale will continue to have their cake and eat it too. The absurdity that is the North York Center urban form lives on.

Restricting development to the sides of stroads is a concession to SFH owners in the first place. Being close to stroads and highways is an undesirable factor for real estate. Who would want to live next to a busy stroad and breath in car exhaust, tire dust and have to bear listening to...

NO PEASANTS ALLOWED NEAR THE BRIDAL PATH YOU MUST BE THIS RICH TO LIVE IN ROSEDALE

Yea except we have the old Scarborough RT cyan sitting there vacant. We have many other colors like turquoise, red, brown and gray still available before we have to resort to shades of existing colors.

Great, two purple lines

Thats the problem. The stations are low-floor stations so the conversion is not easy or cheap to do. And by then you'll be shutting down a major 15kPPDPH line, and causing transit chaos.

This argument might be relevant if we had built the Sheppard line as a crosstown route and it still failed to reach a profitable level of ridership. Except that the Sheppard Line started at 6km long with only 1 major interchange and the Eglinton line is starting at 18km with 4 major...

How did we save on construction costs? The tunnels are wide enough for subway trains and the station boxes are longer than an equivalent station box on the Yonge Line. The eastern at-grade section is a 27m wide stroad which could have been very easily cut and covered. We aren't going to be...

So? Just because we won't be around to suffer the consequences of underbuilding doesn't mean it should not have been built to the proper capacity. If the planners of the 1900s had this kind of mentality then there would be no subway deck under the Bloor Viaduct, the Yonge Line would have been...

In what way would a subway be more expensive to run than what we have right now? A subway would have the same tunnels, interchanges and tracks. Is there anything to suggest that trams are cheaper to maintain than high floor trains? And in terms of personnel , an automated subway would not...

Plus, the line is fundamentally limited in its capacity not just by the size of the trains, and how they drastically reduce capacity and throughput by having wheel wells that take up space and hinder passenger movement, The line is also capacity restricted because it has to interface with...

It is undersized because the projections that claim it will be grossly oversized for demand were conducted long before the Golden Mile was upzoned for 40K people, and all these 50+ story condos were proposed. This line will induce development, and thus ridership, as we should expect, as we have...

According to this logic The Prince Edward Viaduct should not have been built with a future subway deck because in the 1910s, a subway would have been grossly oversized along Bloor We should have just let the Yonge line been an underground streetcar, running it through the center median north of...

20 BILLION DOLLARS FOR A STREETCAR LINE That car should be towed and shredded. Send the bill to the former owner

Yet another 50+ story condo to swamp this grossly undersized streetcar line with riders https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/06/59-storey-tower-proposed-near-line-5-mount-pleasant-station.56315

The growing and accelerating levels of wealth inequality and degrading quality of life in Canada because of our governments failed housing, zoning and immigration policies. Protected lefts but with transit priority.

Streetcars need something like this

The problem with this is you have to totally redo all of the stations to account for the height difference between low floor trams and high floor trains. Honestly the best situation might be to keep the eastern section closed and rebuild it grade separated.