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This is really pretty, imo - it's a shame that Metrolinx has got rid of their art program for future projects..

Art and colour would be nice for future Metrolinx projects but I’m also perfectly satisfied with unique engineering architecture. I guess a good example would be Pioneer Village Station since I use it every day; the unique columns and design are good enough to offset the unused $1.9 million Lightspell artwork. I only wish that they did something with the station walls such as imprinted design/patterns on the concrete. Instead of just plain walls that make it look like a concrete bunker with water stains.

 

[Johnny Au]

People who live in Jersey don’t claim they’re from NYC or NY - that’d make no sense.

...unless they're the New York Giants or the New York Jets.

They play in New Jersey, despite having New York names.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

...unless they're the New York Giants or the New York Jets.

They play in New Jersey, despite having New York names.

Wonder if the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are really a "Toronto" team?

 

[Johnny Au]

Wonder if the Hamilton Tiger-Cats are really a "Toronto" team?

...or are the Anaheim Ducks a Los Angeles team?

...or the 2020 Toronto Blue Jays a Buffalo team?

...or the 2020-21 Toronto Raptors a Tampa Bay team?

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

This is all pedantry. The lines on the map are legal fictions. As with Mike Harris dictat, municipal structures can be redefined at the stroke of a pen. The city is the GTA (not strictly speaking, as the regions comprising the GTA are themselves of arbitrary extent).

The city of Toronto and the GTA are completely different from each other. The city of Toronto is now what used to be metropolitan Toronto and has been since January of 1998.

The GTA is the overall region that has no official designation from the province it's primarily a collective term for the City of Toronto and the surrounding cities that closely boarder it.

Please stop saying that the city of Toronto is the same as the GTA you are coming across as someone who has no understanding about Toronto and the area at all.

 

[ARG1]

The city of Toronto and the GTA are completely different from each other. The city of Toronto is now what used to be metropolitan Toronto and has been since January of 1998.

The GTA is the overall region that has no official designation from the province it's primarily a collective term for the City of Toronto and the surrounding cities that closely boarder it.

Please stop saying that the city of Toronto is the same as the GTA you are coming across as someone who has no understanding about Toronto and the area at all.

The point ultimately is that so much of the GTA is economically tied to Toronto, with many people in the GTA working and culturally tying themselves to Toronto. In terms of regional transit planning, we should really stop tying ourselves to municipal boundaries, and start looking at the GTA as a single transit network factoring in BRT, LRT, what not. This is why projects such as Yonge North and Eglinton West are vital for this goal.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

The point ultimately is that so much of the GTA is economically tied to Toronto, with many people in the GTA working and culturally tying themselves to Toronto. In terms of regional transit planning, we should really stop tying ourselves to municipal boundaries, and start looking at the GTA as a single transit network factoring in BRT, LRT, what not. This is why projects such as Yonge North and Eglinton West are vital for this goal.

I agree with that completely and I also think that Metrolinx needs to be completely rethought and have representatives from each of the transit agencies in the GTHA as part of the board. Metrolinx wants to be transport for London but only owning a few of the lines but somehow being able to dictate what everyone else does.

 

[ARG1]

I agree with that completely and I also think that Metrolinx needs to be completely rethought and have representatives from each of the transit agencies in the GTHA as part of the board. Metrolinx wants to be transport for London but only owning a few of the lines but somehow being able to dictate what everyone else does.

I think that'll make things way too beaurocratic and inefficient. I think Translink is a perfect example of this type setup not working too well where a majority of municipalities must approve of transit projects, which leads to projects like the Canada Line getting severely cut down because the Mayor of Burnaby is interested in an eastward extension further into parks.

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

I think that'll make things way too beaurocratic and inefficient. I think Translink is a perfect example of this type setup not working too well where a majority of municipalities must approve of transit projects, which leads to projects like the Canada Line getting severely cut down because the Mayor of Burnaby is interested in an eastward extension further into parks.

An alternative is the province could buy out all of the transit agencies from their respective cites much like how all of the older tube lines in London were to merge them together.

Although I don't really think that is likely to happen either.

 

[sacred]

An alternative is the province could buy out all of the transit agencies from their respective cites much like how all of the older tube lines in London were to merge them together.

Although I don't really think that is likely to happen either.

A more cooperative/decentralized model could involve a transit federation model, as Jonathan English and TRBT has discussed

 

[Steve X]

An alternative is the province could buy out all of the transit agencies from their respective cites much like how all of the older tube lines in London were to merge them together.

Although I don't really think that is likely to happen either.

They don't have to spend a single penny. They just need to legislate a takeover of a municipal public service. It would be easier to takeover the entire TTC than just the subways.

Then they have to decide on how to fund its operation since they are ALL losing money. Then their objective of being the Translink of GTA would be realized. Except Translink didn't do something stupid and make their own Presto system but instead bought a proper working Compass system.

 

[nfitz]

Except Translink didn't do something stupid and make their own Presto system but instead bought a proper working Compass system.

That didn't support the existing Translink's relatively simple one-operator fare structure, forcing Translink to eliminate fare zones on buses, because the system couldn't process the tap-outs fast enough.

 

[TheTigerMaster]

A look at Keelesdale with its interior lighting installed

Video: https://streamable.com/hypei7

 

[Allandale25]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362417607572410377

 

[robmausser]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1362417607572410377

Should have just been larger shelters instead.

Oh well, future updates.