Recent content by MisterF

Not to mention the loss of all those Ottawa passengers, who would no doubt vastly outnumber any Montreal passengers gained by marginally decreasing travel time.

The sooner the alignment is finalized and publicly known the sooner we can stop with all this Ottawa bypass talk. There's almost as much travel demand to Ottawa as there is to Montreal. Express trains will almost certainly serve Ottawa just as they serve Toronto and Montreal.

I'll be the one to determine what my point was, thanks. And that point, as I've said repeatedly, is that LRT can deliver a fast, rapid transit style service. Whether you like the result is a different conversation entirely. In other words, I showed that the claim that Toronto is too big for...

I was specifically referring to the parts of Prague that are roughly equivalent to the surface sections of Lines 5 and 6. Thank you. This has been my point all along. The rest is beside the point. Just out of curiosity, was this intended to address my post? It doesn't appear to be directly...

If something doesn't work well then the solution is to make it work well. So you acknowledge that LRT can be fast, which is the entire point I've been making. I'm glad that we finally agree. What I said and your rewording have two completely different meanings. When you're trying to refute...

A friendly suggestion - look up what an order of magnitude is. Toronto isn't even a single order of magnitude denser than Calgary, let alone multiple. And since many larger, denser cities than Toronto are building LRT, it's not obviously true that the overall density of a city has anything to do...

I was responding to your statement "On the issues of cleanliness and perceived safety; one of the problems with most western liberal democracies worldwide is we have no tools for dealing with vagrancy, junkies and public nuisance on public transit." This statement goes well beyond just the TTC...

This is simply incorrect. Large portions of the CTrain are in the street ROW. Especially the blue line, which follows 17th Avenue, the Bow Trail, 36th St, etc. Same story in Edmonton. Surface LRTs in Toronto could have been designed the same way. lol By riding it. The street running trams in...

I'm not sure where you get the idea that it's a copout. I'm simply pointing out that liberal democracies do have the tools to deal with this and that addressing the root of the problem is more effective than the symptoms.

I've been predicting this public reaction for years. But it's even worse now because we've sleepwalked into all the insane "safety" constraints that have been imposed since the line was designed.

The optimistic side of me thinks that Air Canada is taking lessons from Kodak, which invented digital photography and famously missed the forest for the trees when they shelved it because it wasn't going to help them sell more film. And we all know what happened to Kodak. Similarly, Air Canada...

Well since you mention Calgary, yes it operates at a high speed for urban transit. And a lot of it is at street level, not grade separated and has headways of 5 minutes last time I was there. That alone proves that it can be done. But since you want more examples, how about that study that made...

If you fix one problem the other goes away.

Some Western liberal democracies have essentially solved those issues. I didn't see addicts or visibly homeless people in Scandinavia either. We have the tools, it's just a question of using them.

Not just technically but in practice. There are LRT systems that have higher top speeds and average speeds than our subway. And they don't even need to be fully grade separated to do it. I'm curious why your question has so many qualifiers. An LRT/tram being in a city without a metro or north of...