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Metrolink is in California. The agency in Ontario is spelt Metrolinx.

You have got to admit, the name Ontario Line is still better than Relief Line.

Yeah they could, but staff pay less for parking then patients. Staff pay max $9 a day for parking in staff parking lots or $130 a month ($6.5 a day) for a secure lot with a gate. Patients maximum is $26 and change a day though so it's a considerable difference between staff and patient parking...

Front of the hospital is where the x is: Regardless, that walk is not flat. You have to walk up a sloped road without a sidewalk. It still easily a 18-20 minute walk. Not suitable for a large portion of the hospital population.

That's a far walk.

I wonder if there will be any consequences to adding concrete on top in the long term. I assume they will remove the a bit of surface before adding additional concrete to raise the height. I think the platforms might actually be stacked concrete blocks (like bricks) but not sure if this would...

Good Ol' Toronto. Made of concrete and glass facades.

This conversation on traffic signals for colour blind people is a little bit unnecessary. Traffic signals in both orientations have only 1 pattern. Horizontal traffic signals: From left to right: Red, Yellow, Green Vertical traffic signals: From top to bottom: Red, Yellow, Green No reason to...

I am completely fine with those considerations. That is not the problem I have here. If a GO train costs $20 dollars to Niagara Falls, and then $20 back to Toronto, but it is possible to go there and back with a $10 weekend pass then there is something wrong here. Either the standard fare is too...

I wouldn't call the entirety of car infrastructure as operational costs. Yes, there is a proportion of taxes that go towards car/road infrastructure, but not all of these are operational costs. The construction and maintenance of roads is not an operational costs, the same as how the...

Eglinton line, at the very list, should've had platforms in the video (timestamp: 3:09) I have linked below:

Car drivers still pay for operational costs. Transit riders should pay a reasonable amount to subsidize operational costs.

I went into this thread expecting people to be ecstatic that Toronto no longer has to maintain this highway, but it's all just doom and gloom.

I thought this video was going to be poorly written but found it to be a rather good overview on the state of the TTC and it's future.

This came out to around $5.4 million per year. Factoring in inflation, wage increases and increase in diesel prices - multiplying by 1.4 (40%) seems fair. In that case, the cost would be $7.6 million.

I asked ChatGPT to do the napkin math: Assuming 22 buses are operating on a 25 km route at an average speed of 15 km/h for 16 hours a day, every day of the year, the buses would cover a total of 96,360,000 km annually. If a city bus consumes, on average, 30 liters of diesel per 100 km, then...

Definitely better to overbuild a tunnel though. Better to avoid or prolong instances which would require a shutdown of the tunnel for a substantial period of time. It seems to be quite an expensive undertaking in New York City to rebuild the 1910 tunnel between New Jersey and New York in the...

Drove past this twice today. Looks like they were doing something with the roof of the tall building beside it. That building is 32 stories tall so the crane must've been reaching a height of somewhere around 40 stories. I was quite confused to what I was seeing aha.

This may have been asked or answer before but is there a considerable height difference for the overhead wires between running bilevels and using EMU single level train sets? Would EMU's be able to run on the bilevel overhead wire height or would the wires have to be lowered eventually?

I don't know why I spent time doing this but with an online map maker and some primitive editing I have updated how this might've looked like below. Will leave the rest to imagination. (Metrolinx hire me 😂)