Recent content by doady

Well, if there is Regional Express, it would make sense to have Streetcar Express, right? :D I do think branding is something they will need to think more deeply about. "Light rail" is a technical term, like "heavy rail", and using it as the branding is just lazy. It's doesn't even make sense...

I always upload my maps as PDF because Illustrator CS2 is terrible at output to raster formats, and I've been trying figuring out how to generate PNG file that looks as sharp as it does as AI or PDF file in Illustrator or Reader. It took me a while I think I finally figured it out. Save as PDF...

You are questioning whether these corridors have the ridership to justify LRT, but also suggesting Toronto build subways everywhere like NYC and Tokyo? I think Wilson-Rexdale-Derry, Lawrence East, and Kingston-Highway 2 are good candidates for future light rail. In 905, there Queen in...

We are not talking about 36 Finch vs. BRT. We are talking about LRT vs. BRT. If LRT runs every 6 minutes, bus would need 2 minutes to match that. 36 Finch doesn't run 2 minutes, but you don't build BRT on Finch to match the ridership of the 36 Finch. You build BRT with the expectation that the...

Sounds like it is including routes like 7 and 39 at Renforth, and 110 at CCTT and Erin Mills as well. Even with those routes included, 4 million still very surprising considering 100/107/109 not fully returned to normal, and GO numbers not included either. If you look at stop ridership maps...

4 million is most likely the boardings for the entirety of 107 and 109, including on-street stops, rather than specific to boardings at the Transitway stations or CCTT.

Something like Viva Rapidway along Finch would require articulated buses, which do not operate well in snow. The buses would also have to come every 2 minutes in each direction, which would make signal priority not possible.

Adding 200k service hours in two years is a huge increase, so loss of 45k is not that bad. MiWay seems to have cancelled any plans for service increase in 2026 as well. If I understand those charts correctly, even after those cuts, Brampton Transit annual service hours basically the same as...

Milton Line has no all-day service, so MiWay does not make much effort to serve those stations. Transitway was also designed from the ground up to connect to local services, especially the busiest terminal, CCTT, while Milton Line stations are not designed to connect with local buses or...

I don't understand why you want to reduce Bo Bichette's salary to $1.5 million. Should Taylor Swift's salary be reduced to $1.5 million too? I lost my driver's license due to epilepsy, and even I don't care if they make money than a neurosurgeon. If MLB team makes hundreds of millions per...

Brampton Transit 43 million riders, MiWay 41 million in 2024. Brampton saw 20% loss in 2025, MiWay 10% loss, so basically the same. Other systems: Winnipeg Transit 48 million in 2024, 6% loss in 2025. Quebec City 32 million in 2024, 6% loss in 2025. Hamilton Street Railway 22 million in 2024...

MLB probably make billions per year. $42 million is nothing.

So this is not about ridership growth falling behind population growth the past 15 years, it's actually about ridership not meeting the City goal of doubling transit mode share since 2005? It is not even something that MiWay can use as a measure of performance. Mode share is only for commutes...

Somehow, I don't think the 6-minute service is the reason for the drop in ridership along Derry Road. And it's probably not the reason for the recent ridership losses for Brampton Transit and TTC either. As for your claim that "ridership has fail to keep pace with city growth for the last 15...

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