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  1. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    I tried to start a thread on colonialism and I was less than impressed with the replies, I'm loathe to opine on the naming here.
  2. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    It's tempting to write it off as "kids being stupid". But we should not be lead into thinking we couldn't have done more. I will admit to walking on tracks as a teenager, on low-speed CN tracks serving local auto plants. One time, I was even playing with a friend on a 50 foot high wooden...
  3. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/vivienne-loved-who-she-was-mom-mourns-teen-killed-by-up-express-and-has-a/article_f9e41618-e851-11ee-adc2-c3137150848e.html Confirmed misadventure. Train time is anytime folks. A heartbreaking story nonetheless. As a father, it's stuff like this that keeps me...
  4. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    A good point, for sure. The City's backgrounder on the 2021 census does not break it down, but confirms a continued downward trend amongst all households. using an average percentage vs city-wide rates, my calculation is 1.98, so a little lower, but still 16,800-17,800 residents.
  5. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | Lower Don Lands Redevelopment | ?m | ?s | Waterfront Toronto

    2021 Census puts Toronto's average household size at 2.4, so despite @Northern Light 's good context, that's puts you at that target (if 9,000 units is correct). And that was before the housing market fully tipped into new territory.
  6. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I believe they did that a few months back, quoting weekly additional trains along the Kitchener corridor to make it sound enormous.
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    Dundas West/ Bloor Mobility Hub +interconnected hub network (Metrolinx)

    I don't think Metrolinx / the government are very liberal (pun kind of intended) in providing target completion dates these days.
  8. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | GO Transit: Davenport Diamond Grade Separation | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    This is something I've been wondering about for a long time; not necessarily an EMU, just a conversion to essentially make the cab car or a coach into a slug for distributing tractive power. I do respect that may not be as simple as it sounds though.
  9. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Cynicism over the years convinced me they were blowing me off when I emailed them about additional service. I'm glad it's actually happening.
  10. Metroscapes

    TTC: Redesigning TTC Signage

    Oh ya, I'm not serious about this being on official signage, just wanted to take a crack at it. It may show up in some of my work.
  11. Metroscapes

    TTC: Redesigning TTC Signage

    So I stumbled on this thread through a Google search. AIGA doesn't really have a symbol for trams, but ISO 7001 has this: I got super sidetracked on a potential YouTube video tonight and redesigned the new streetcar pictogram for fun tonight, thoughts?
  12. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I drive 124 occasionally but I try to avoid it like the plague; I opt for county roads further south. I can say it's heavy (mostly moving, to be fair) most of the day and gridlocked during rush hours. It's certainly not Toronto-bound traffic, it's a bunch of Guelph <> Cambridge commuters like...
  13. Metroscapes

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    I seem to recall there being a Niagara EA that roughed out a yard concept.
  14. Metroscapes

    East Don Trail Project

    Yeesh, can you imagine a world without lawyers?!
  15. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    "Union Station Rail Corridor" or USRC is the official term, and this is evidenced by the signs. In the east, the USRC officially goes / went to the signals at the Don for the Kingston sub, and south if Dundas for the Bala sub. In the west, I don't know is what the true "extent" is. I recall...
  16. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | GO Transit: Davenport Diamond Grade Separation | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    A couple brief comments: The robustness of noise walls is driven by noise legislation. If there's ever going to be flexibility for other treatments, either more 'aesthetically pleasing' alternatives need to meet the noise attenuation standards, or there needs to be lower standards (for whatever...
  17. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | Park Lawn GO Station | 12.83m | 2s | First Capital | Hatch

    The documented rationale for keeping Mimico aside, is it any factor that the TOD plans for Mimico GO keep getting...sigh...derailed? Really donning a tin foil hat here, but would the government use this as an excuse to cut costs by not refreshing a station and operate it because of these plans...
  18. Metroscapes

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Just when you thought the days of mis-matched consists spattered with old MTO green coaches were getting fewer, they still find a way to screw things up. :P
  19. Metroscapes

    Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)

    As an MPP, doesn't she have the parliamentary privileges to get this info anyway?
  20. Metroscapes

    Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)

    That's only the upper echelons though.

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