Recent content by JSF-1

I honestly think the first thing that needs to happen is everyone needs to stop calling the East Bayfront and Waterfront West projects LRT's, because they aren't. They are just an expansion of the streetcar network that's going to use the same track gauge, the same rolling stock, and have the...

Made this map of the Sheppard Subway proposal from the 1980's. It includes both the Network 2011 proposal (STC - Sheppard West) and the western extension to Kipling proposal. Bare in mind that the western extension to Kipling was more of a long-term drawn on a napkin idea and not a serious...

If I am understanding things correctly, the TTC can't due to the contract with Mosaic Transit. It seems that any change like speed or implementation of TSP has to be amended into the contract, although the Province seems to be disputing this. Regardless if anything this shows a serious flaw in...

I think what needs to be said here is that the current Don Valley Station alignment for the Crosstown is a hold over from the Transit City days as putting the station underground was done to increase the lines speed through the intersection. Here it would have also had an interchange with the...

New video is up. This is one of 2 I will be making on the topic of the Finch West LRT. This one is the standard historic look at the line (as you probably expect from my videos), while the next one will be an unscripted opinion piece just giving my thoughts on the route after having ridden it...

Okay I get that the line is in need of improvement but there is absolutely zero indication this was ever going to happen. If anything the line would have gotten the Hamilton LRT treatment and be cancelled and then reinstated. Everyone from politicians to engineers knows that Finch West can only...

I don't think its about Ward 24 specifically but Scarborough in general. Ainslie is the Deputy Mayor for Scarborough so perhaps he's living by that role and bringing it up on behalf of the others.

I think the biggest issue with the idea is that there is no way federal regulations would let Line 3's Light-Metro trains run on the same tracks as GO's much larger and heavier trains. As well there are issues with signalling, automation and possibly loading-gauge. All that is to say that it is...

When doing my video for the Finch West Line I read that during testing ML was operating trains up to 60km/h, now of course that was probably without making any stops. Makes me wonder if maybe Metrolinx should be the ones operating the line and not the TTC. Hell has truly frozen over if ML is the...

It's possible it could be the "media" opening. The politicians and media get to take a ride on it and do the photo-ops, then it opens a couple of days later for the rest of use plebeians.

Back in the late 1960's then Mayor of North York "James Service" proposed a massive expansion of Line 2 through North York turning it into a Loop Line. The proposal was for the line to follow the Uxbridge Sub to the Finch Hydro Corridor and then follow it and the Humber-Pearson and Kipling Hydro...

Not a complaint but the right side of the map looks so naked without the SRT. Like looking at Kennedy it feels like there should be something there.

This is tangentially related but when doing some research for my video on the Finch West LRT I found this image of the extension of Line 2 to Kipling. Specifically it shows the TTC once considered constructing a subway yard between Islington and Kipling, so I thought you guys may like to see it.

I just went onto the Toronto Library's website and in this instance searched to see if they had a copy of the "Advanced Rapid Transit Study", they didn't but they did have this "Sheppard/Finch Rapid Transit Corridor Study: final report" at my local branch (Cedarbrae) in the reference section so...

Also here's some maps with ridership forecasts (there a tad blurry). These are done as if the corridor was an inter-regional line running from Pickering to Oakville (GO ALRT Northern Line). The jist of it is that on the Sheppard alignment ridership would peak at 17,500 pphpd in the eastbound...