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For gas tax, would it be province or country wide and directed proportionally? I always wondered how Western New Yorkers feel about NYC, if it's like how the rest of the province feels about Toronto. I guess it would capture out of province road users if they fill up within the province? We know...

I kinda brought this up before, and I'm not entirely sure how it works.. But MTA in NYC issues bonds. As for road tolls, a lot of the traffic on the area highways are for transportation of goods (i.e. trucks). What can we do about that? Shift it to more freight train traffic?

In fact, to use a common argument, world class cities often have the worst congestion! :) The Eglinton line, whatever it ends up being, is supposed to be the alternative to the 401. It's not a feeder line, it's a crosstown trunk line. It's one of very few roads that completely cross the city...

Plans can and do change. Rarely does one build as planned. It sounds great now, but it's hard to predict future needs. Policy changes with government. Your ideas make sense now and as planned, but it will never be possible to say that it'll be the right choice short of seeing into the future...

That's exactly what interlining is in the NYC subway. The trains do not have to stop on the trunk lines (i.e. express) like how Stouffville trains do not stop along Lakeshore East line stations. And it's a lot easier to add extra tracks above ground than digging tunnels, as well with the lower...

True, but we did add more costs by bringing the level of service to the highest common denominator. One could argue had Scarborough not pushed for CVA if it would have turned into what it is today. It would not be a cheap area to live.

Whoops, I meant to say plan new lines with the option for express track. However, one problem I see is that the only place that might benefit from express tracks now, it's too late and prohibitively expensive to build. So how would one ever plan that a line may eventually need express service...

Perhaps provisionally for new lines?

The debate should be about building express tracks. We need them yesterday :) Too bad nobody is debating that.

Scarborough was quite well off pre-amalgamation and debt-free: http://www.insidetoronto.com/print/43289

I think we can all agree that the real debate is not subways vs. LRT. It is about grade-separated transit vs. mixed traffic to save on cost. We all want a better transit system, but we have to live within our means. The problem I have with surface transit is they get stuck at traffic lights...

Would an LRT on Sheppard east of Don Mills/Victoria Park be more palatable if Sheppard trains continued onto the Yonge line? The perception would change that Sheppard is less of a stub, and more of a branch off a trunk route (Yonge), similar to how New York's metro has multiple routes running...

There is an interesting comment on the official Scarborough Town Centre Facebook page. Looks like the associated comment was removed from their Twitter account. Scarborough Town Centre What are you thoughts... Does STC need an Apple Store? http://on.fb.me/ejA2v2 #Scarborough #AppleStore Tuesday...

Most likely the rumoured expansion plan. Not sure why they didn't make the announcement before starting the construction. The entire lot around Scotiabank is closed off (as are parts of the decks, but that always seems to be the case). Parking is pretty bad. Not Boxing Day bad, but for a...

Actually, states like NY, NJ, PA all seem to have pretty low limits on the interstates. Max 65mph and it goes down to 55mph in urban areas. On the other hand, the country road limits are pretty high outside cities, usually 55mph, but can go down drastically in cities. But other states, I...

I think the problem with the 401 in this section is the lack of horizontal space and reconfiguring the interchange. Could the express lanes be stacked vertically on the collector lanes?

There is a rumour that the SportChek at STC is being replaced by a Forever 21 (not sure which concept store).

Wonder if there will be any expansion to Scarborough Town Centre now that the renovation is complete. The lack of a complement of new retailers is disappointing. Perhaps the Walmart could move to the vacant lot east of Best Buy and turn into a Supercentre, since the exterior of the store never...

Just wanted to get some opinion about running Toronto more like New York City. I have driven on New York area roads and taken the NYC subway and I made some observations. The roads seem to flow fairly well in NYC. Drivers are, let me say, "assertive". They use their horn appropriately and...

My hope is that the real people doing work behind the scenes take notice of the viewpoints being expressed so that we come up with well thought out solutions. Don't be surprised, forums are monitored more than you think. Smart growth seems to be the way to go, the way we are headed, and...