Recent content by mikey7767

They. Are. Synonymous. Terms.

Yeah but our wasteful and corrupt city council is has some kind of obsession with street level Light Rail, and will happily spend Billions of transit dollars on keeping transit slow rather than on anything smart or efficient.

Either way, my first two points stand. One of the most pro-subway countries I know. And building to be time efficient and fast. I can't even imagine them building stuff like the Finch West LRT or anything similar outside of maybe one or two examples that exist that I don't know about.

One of the most pro-subway countries in the world. Where they understand the importance of speed in transit. Where they aren't handicapped by labour unions.

Thank you. Better late than never.

This is equivalent to saying "No point in trying to push for something better because it will never happen". There was a push to make the line even faster and the city acted. There was a push for stop removals along bus and streetcar routes in the past and many stops were removed. There was push...

Would be pretty awesome if Metrolinx could acquire the tracks from CN all the way up to West Harbour. Maybe we could have that portion electrified too. Even if it comes to building a channel for the freight trains.

You just made the case as for why surface LRTs are a bad idea and why it doesn't get people off their cars.

$40 is not exorbitant, but it is quite high for someone who drives a bus. Or is a station collector. YRT, MiWay, etc all pay way less. Even NYC pays a lot less. We are one of the highest if not the highest in North America. Even a 25% cut would be a living wage in Toronto, and more than fair for...

Underfunded? They have an overspending problem. Drivers are getting paid close to $40/hr if not more, close to $50/hr on Sundays (x1.25 on Sundays from what I heard), and this includes station collectors, who often gather around together socializing rather than guarding their entrances. I'm not...

Good luck with parallel traffic with your extended green lights, including transit (buses).

Such a disingenuous comment. He cancelled surface LRTs because he didn't believe they were worth the money. But you know this already. And he did it to grade separate Eglinton as well.

He took the subway a lot, especially after nights out.

Because it was a deal he made with the province to bury what was already planned for the surface section and then following the Scarborough RT guideway to Scarborough Town Centre to make it one seamless grade separated line. To build the west tunnels and configure it with the Scarborough RT...

He understood good transit. He knew the value of building less, but better quality. The Eglinton LRT journey could have been roughly 40 minutes or a bit under if he had his way from Kennedy and to Mount Dennis, and it would have gone to STC. It's his opponents, the Surface LRT nuts that are the...