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I think a Blue Night route along Markham Road could be worth a shot since its about a 4km gap between McCowan Road and Morningside Avenue. Plus there is a lot of industrial business and warehouses north of Sheppard that may be worth serving on Markham Road. It can be numbered 302 Markham Road...

Gives me similar vibes to the Tobu 70000 Series trains in Tokyo.

I'm surprised there still hasn't been any movement on extending the 115 to Leslie Station like what was originally intended when Line 4 opened.

If the Finch West Line opens first we should call it Line 5. It can be our very own "Purple Line/Elizabeth Line" meme; Finch is the real Line 5. Honestly though while Crosslinx is no saint in any of this I would hope that heads would roll at Metrolinx for this debacle as well but I am doubtful.

New video up, this one looking at the history of the Dundas Streetcar. One of the things I found interesting here was the DUNDAS Streetcar continued to operate beyond Dundas West Station to Runnymede Loop up to 1968 before being cut back to Dundas West. As well I would imagine the TTC would love...

It's possible we buy Hitatchi trains similar to the ones used on the Lima Metro since they are also automated, have a pantograph and doors at the front for emergency use. Just brace yourself for the Yellow detail in the picture to be grey here for reasons...

New video up, this one looking at the history of the King Streetcar.

This technically isn't true. Work on the extensions to Islington and Warden started on March 1, 1965 a little under a year before the first phase of Line 2 opened in 1966. Now the timelines between Line 2 and Line 5 will be very different since the extension of Line 2 to Islington and Warden...

Well that's probably because the bridge over the Don by Leslie is relatively short and enclosed. Depending on the depth of the Sheppard West Extension I imagine the bridge over Earl Bales will be much longer and more noticeable.

Boy I can't wait for the NIMBY's to begin demanding the line be tunnelled under Earl Bales Park because "they deserve an underground subway" and anything else would be second class. You know this is exactly what's going to happen.

I think another reason we have abandoned that design is they can be a liability in the winter when the stairs are covered in snow and slush. You could mitigate that by either putting a cover over top or enclosing them, however we haven't done that with the ones we currently have even though we...

Sure why not! While were at it we should extend the 503 Kingston Road up to Eglinton Avenue East to meet this line. Than we can have the old Scarboro Radial Railway back. Then we can have a one seat streetcar ride from West Hill to Downtown Toronto like in the 1900's.

Just re-posting this from the crosstown thread: Yea I kind of figured there would be a conflict the SSE tunnel. We don't know what the exact alignment to Kennedy will be but it would be nice if some kind of non-revenue connection was made to Line 5 likely along the overpass linking to Line 5...

Yea I kind of figured there would be a conflict the SSE tunnel. We don't know what the exact alignment to Kennedy will be but it would be nice if some kind of non-revenue connection was made to Line 5 likely along the overpass linking to Line 5 around at Ionview, but I can see the opposition to...

Does Queen even need to be underpinned? I would assume that was done when the station was built to accommodate the streetcar platform.

Well the names that stand out to me would be "Alexandra Park" for the stop at Spadina, and "Niagara" for the stop at Bathurst although you can make the case this one shouldn't be used. There is also Queen West as an option for the stop at Spadina since that is literally the more well known name...

Made this map of a possible line along the 407 railway corridor. I call it the North Toronto Line and would essentially be a cross region route connecting Durham, York, Peel, Halton, and Hamilton as well as every GO Line. Since the line crosses multiple boundaries and is so long it would be part...

New video up, this one looking at the history of the Kingston Road Streetcar. This includes the Toronto & Scarboro Electric Railway and the Downtowner as well.

Honestly considering the TTC is having its 100'th anniversary I was expecting more. I get the pandemic may have squashed some of their plans, but it sucks they aren't really opening anything at all except Lower Bay. Why not say McNicoll Garage since it just opened? I think it would also be neat...

I do, at the end of the video and in the description.