no to be clear, the design team wasn't creative enough in selling the idea of a transit mall. it's your job as a designer to not just present your client with options, but to convince them why the best option is the only real one to consider. in that you failed and that's fine. anyone can...

couldn't the lost capacity from the Gardiner be made up with more lanes along Lakeshore? wouldn't traffic flow more efficiently as a result? have you tried to merge onto the Gardiner between Jarvis and Dufferin lately? the Gardiner's on ramps take up tons of space. how many lanes of traffic...

Then why not just say that to begin with. We’re on the same page. I really didn’t mean to insult you or anyone else. I get there are other factors at play here, political and otherwise.

It's called... a Transit Mall. https://streetmix.net/-/2555233

what a disaster / money pit this monstrosity is. should have torn it down when they had the chance.

Nah. It’s a disaster. I’ve put way too many hours of thought into it for over a decade. Half assed execution gets half assed results. If they went full transit mall that would have been great. Had they gone with the ROW option instead that would’ve been better. It’s not well thought out or...

King Street current design is what happens when non creative people think they're creative. Just ban on street parking on every 500 route. Put every the streetcar in a ROW. Have the platforms/stop clear enough so that commuters are safe from vehicle traffic. ban left turns and be done with it...

no that's a myth. it all depends on the design. there's countless examples where one way streets do not prioritize car movement. especially if it's just one lane. this idea some people have that it would kill the street's vibrancy is misguided at best. personally I think ROW's would be fine...

i've suggested that many times before. obviously King would need to become a one way, but it could be paired with Queen.

putting an ROW on King is not a bad idea. it was probably the best idea of the original three options. the only problem is the lack of room for platforms, where people still would have to cross live traffic to board. i would support doing this with every streetcar line, not just King. left...

that will probably happen eventually as well. as soon as it opens people in Scarborough will complain that they got the Dollarama portion of the line.

yes. take this funding and put it towards a subway line that parallels Line 2 south of Bloor. the city desperately needs a line like that, but that wouldn't be "fair" or buy precious votes.

that's pretty much exactly how it works in Berlin and it works beautifully. 4 track corridors 2 tracks are dedicated to S-Bahn service (10 minutes all day) 2 tracks are dedicated to Regional & Intercity (ICE) service. dividing the two services (local & regional) is so simple to understand...

i agree. the only complicated section would be Bloor to St. Clair on Jane. North of St. Clair it can run at street level being > 27 m, but south that's looking like a 2km tunnel.

well you just touched on the crux of the problem. municipal politicians love debating infrastructure development proposals endlessly, so that they don't actually have to commit to building infrastructure projects. personally i never thought city councillor make for good transit planers, nor do...

pre-metro perhaps? or is that too ambitious?

has it been a headache or just a reluctance to invest capital into transit expansion? I see what you are saying though. we'd have two stub lines with low ridership, but also two stub lines that could be easily expanded with enough $ and political will. that's much better than nothing.

sure, but also don't underestimate that it is much easier to extend an existing line than creating a new line from scratch. logically it should have expanded east to Yonge, then Don Mills, and eventually Kennedy. but logically the Line 4 should have already been extended both east and west...

sure there's always push back from NIMBY's, but who cares honestly. the Eglinton West LRT is underground only because it was Ford's riding / backyard. otherwise the whole thing would have been and should have been elevated (not a street level). you can see with the Ontario Line that several...

small communities hahaha yeah there's unfortunately a fair bit of that too. subways should only be built underground in the most densely populated areas of the city. otherwise elevated will suffice. i think there's some merit to light rail in the right scenario. it's fine to question the...