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There's may be a few things, but much of the issues from Metrolinx comes bureaucracy, incompetence, and a systemic mindset of disdaining input from third parties. With the occasional subservience to their political masters.

? The contract for the new station at Exhibition was awarded last year, along with the subway stations at King/Bathurst, Queen/Spadina, Osgoode, Queen, Moss Park and Corktown.

The tunnel is dangerously over-capacity during event at BMO Field. Lots of people are missing GO trains because they can't move through the tunnel. There's definite plans for a second tunnel, and possibly a third - though that might be on hold in lieu of the overpass. This temporary overpass...

Sure, if my destination was Union, or Queens Quay. But that's far from the biggest destination node downtown in AM peak. The biggest is Dundas. Queen is major as well. Once the subway gets to Langstaff, many (if not most) Richmond Hill riders are going to find it faster to take the subway...

Try using the Presto card directly, and tell us if it changes. Personally, I haven't seen any subway stations with the new readers yet. Another possibility is that the new readers aren't as sensitive as the old ones, so wallets might slow things down a bit more, until the card gets closer to...

Now that I think about it more, @Pyeknu, there already is a thread for the old Relief Line North study (to Sheppard and beyond!), that was renamed for the Ontario Line north extension. https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/ontario-line-north-of-eglinton-was-relief-line-north-speculation.28508

That was one of the options in the pre-2019 Metrolinx Relief Line north study, joining that line, just north of Eglinton. Probably cheaper than building an elevated structure up Don Mills Road to 407.

The bottom line is the amount spent on GO, is going to be a lot more $/rider than subway in urban areas. But it's not about improving transit, as much as removing congestion on highway and let people from the suburbs get around better. For annual numbers, 300 is the rule of thumb for systems...

I noticed two very prominent looking hired security guards riding the Bloor line, through the centre of downtown around 10:30 pm last night. I'm not sure if they were patrolling - or perhaps just heading for Bloor station. I think they got on an eastbound at Spadina. Even 24 hours ago, the...

I don't think it's anything to do with visible minority and immigrants. It's about much more difficult to put together blocks of land along Danforth, because of all the very narrow and relatively shallow lots. There's certainly been a lot of development recently where larger lots already...

If you are presenting your wallet, then there's likely card clash going on. People will have to stop doing that, once debit/credit is accepted, as who knows which card it will find first. On buses/streetcars, I've found it intermittent. Most times it seems fine. But sometimes it seems slow. I'm...

Well there may be a some truth to that, Milton runs at similar times and the pre-Covid ridership was almost triple the 5,800 riders per day Richmond Hill line - despite it being a lot easier to have added extra trains to Richmond Hill than Milton! And Metrolinx's forecast for ridership when...

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Though to be fair the New York system has required a physical card reader for years, and was very primitive - much more similar to the old TTC system for Metropasses, except you could put cash on it as well. Certainly no fare zones. And Oyster couldn't have handled either the number of fare...

Indeed! Back before the Spadina extension north of Downsview (now Sheppard West) was final, I (jokingly) proposed in one thread, simply extending Line 1 around a curve, and then east on Sheppard, becoming Line 4. And then extending both Line 2 and Line 4 to Scarborough Centre - and joining them...

The recent (February) Metrolinx report on the various GO stations actually predicted ridership to decrease on the Richmond Hill line ... (2040s?). I suspect from some other numbers, that there's a weakness in the modelling for remote and infrequent service - but a service increase seems very...

But everyone wanted real time card updates. There's reasons this wasn't a possibility when this was designed over a decade ago, as it's likely causing issues even today. Remember how much faster the parking meters were with credit cards, before the Toronto Star published that article, noting...

Interesting to see it in the same category as the Hamilton LRT. Which perhaps say more about the lack of progress on the Hamilton LRT.

It certainly wasn't made because of community consultation, as they'd be really laying it on thick to demonstrate how much they care about the Don Valley. I'd expect it's either HFR, or they found out that there's actual rules that are tougher to wave away with a wand about building fueling...

Hang on ... what's that new structure to the left (west), on Line 2, between Pape and Chester?. At first glance, I took that to be the newish Second Exit/Entrance they'd added. But it isn't, of course - it's the wrong direction and not connected to the platform. It looks like an emergency exit...