With regards to being modern - refurbishing the light metro line and installing the necessary infrastructure to keep it operating smoothly during periods of snowfall allows it to be just as modern a system as any LRT and arguably cheaper to construct. For capacity - if both are completely...

East of McCowan in the near-future, we will likely see Ellesmere become the busiest surface transit corridor (if it isn't already, and not Sheppard) due to the destinations along it in Scarborough - STC, the hospital, and UTSC + the existing Ellesmere BRT grows ridership. I'd say ending the line...

meh, I think LRTs or BRTs on many of Toronto's major streets would be highly transformative and result in higher reliability, capacity and ridership. After all, Toronto is a city that relies very heavily on its surface transit for ridership - and is a major factor in why our subway system is...

ooh, this. I live in Whitby now but grew up in North York using the TTC with presto (lol i've never used cash or tokens in my life). Nowadays I have the habit of forgetting to tap off at Union sometimes because when I lived in TO I never tapped off, and I just feel paranoid everytime I take GO...

Yikes, where' can I read the latest numbers from? If this is the case, I'd like to think the range of 24k-30k indicates that the system will initially be operating at a low end of 24k with the ability to have service expanded to service 30k pphpd. Which is still a higher design capacity than...

is that the little piece of the crosstown east extension that travels a short distance on Sheppard in order to connect between Malvern and UofT Scarborough? Or is there something else i haven't seen-

I'd like to see Line 2 and 5's extension above ground too - using elevated and surface ROW for rapid transit should be more normalized in this city, wherever it is appropriate to allow for the fast construction times, and lower cost/high trackage systems that we envy in places like Vancouver or...

Okay, based on both rainforest's' and reeces' responses I think I can conclude that, even today, the best and most sensible option IMO would be to refurbish the SRT with new trains and implement a system that prevents the issue of frozen LIM rails. This is much cheaper than either the LRT or...

I have a question, it's probably been answered before but this thread is huge. Does LIM reliability actually suffer during snowfall or very cold temperatures? I do see a large uptick in delays and shutdowns on the RT during the winter (before the world ended, I used to ride the RT Monday-Friday...

I'd be more inclined to agree with you had Sheppard been an LRT or BRT corridor that might easily proceed beyond McCowan, but some smart person many decades ago decided to choose the highest order, most expensive transit mode to place underneath some northern suburban arterial. So, if this is...

Yea, if I were making a map for this part of the city it would largely be as you described. Having both OL and Line 2 at STC would both provide one-seat rides to downtown (redundant service), as opposed to possibly one 1-seat ride to downtown and one 1-seat ride to STC instead by connecting Line...

true, there is also a lot better ridership potential by running Line 4 along Sheppard in this segment as opposed to the 401. At least, west of Agincourt; anything east of that station is just industrial wasteland for the most part :S For this map, the Line 2 extension to Sheppard/McCowan is...

Honestly, this might sound a little mean to drivers, but my solution would be to slap a congestion charge on all traffic entering downtown. At some point you can't lure people out of their cars with even the best transit, so then you have to make it more difficult to drive downtown in the first...

Actually I don't know if it would be comparable. If we took away the Toronto subway, Melbourne would have far better CBD access than Toronto. Our regional rail sits on only one corridor on the south edge of the CBD at one station; Melbourne's sits at the east, south, and west edges of the CBD...

There won't be such a large influx of demand if we suddenly decided to blow the Gardiner to smithereens; also removing it would never "favour 905 commuters" :p ~70% of the users of the Gardiner are from outside Toronto, and auto modal share for Toronto's downtown is something like 20% or less...

The sad thing is, considering an elevated expressway teardown, Toronto is in a better position (from a transit capacity perspective) than most of those US cities that are committed to expressway teardowns. Unlike a lot of these cities, we have a large regional/commuter rail system that shuttles...

lol you're giving off some TO department of transportation energy with that statement That is true, but the Finch LRT doesn't need to be the answer to providing a high capacity, fast loop. We do need something like Melbourne - their SRL project is massive. A non-radial regional rail across...

bruh why does this keep getting revived from the dead every few months with random speculative articles? !Remindme in 2077 when official documents for a serious Pickering Airport proposal appears :D

Lol that's sad but if a relatively car-oriented city like Melbourne can do it, my simple mind would imagine a place like Toronto can too. But I'm not so aware of the politics here. There seems to be a strong push for transit building here (relative to the rest of North America) but very against...

Honestly I'd take anything other than the metrolinx standard gray, so blue would be pretty nice. Although, a blue train would be PTSD-inducing; I'll have a flashback to riding the then-closed Scarborough RT from where I lost my sense of hearing :D ✨