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In Montreal there is an "Opus à l'année" loyalty program for the STM where your card automatically gets a monthly pass at the start of each month. If you sign up, you get a month free each year, and discounts on Bixi/Communauto. Same thing exists for the RTM, Opus+ automatically charges you a...

I'm sure this question has been raised and addressed somewhere else in this thread, so I'm sorry for the repeat, but this 10 km/h speed limit (either for turns or for intersections) is mind boggling to me since it's such a significant handicap for the efficiency of the streetcar network and...

How about: This is a line 1, Yonge-University-Spadina Line, northbound train terminating at Vaughan Metropolitan City Centre subway station sponsored by SmartCentres SmartREIT

A line along Queen has been planned since before the Yonge line even existed, let alone needed Relief. The DRL serves many more functions than just being a rush-hour relief valve for the Yonge line, including relieving/improving the King/Queen streetcars, providing service to the "shoulder...

I think that it's just you who notices these things, most other people haven't spent as many untold hours hunched over maps of Toronto, trying to make fantasy maps with varying degrees of schematisation/geographic accuracy. It's surprising to me too that they don't reach Bathurst, the official...

I picture a roller-coaster solution, where passengers are held to their seats by harnesses that only release when Dupont station is reached.

I have an iPhone 6 so maybe that's why. I basically don't have any internet access for my entire TTC trip unless we're held at a station for a crew changeover.

The point is that since there's no wifi in the tunnels, you need to constantly reconnect and disconnect during the 30 seconds that you're in the stop. The reason that there isn't cell service in the tunnel is really more the fault of the Big 3 than the TTC, the TTC wanted to make money off the...

A long section of Cote Vertu actually has fencing, between Bertrand and Decarie, but I think the city is installing more. I would have posted a streetview of R-L but the fencing is recent (within the last 3 years), so you can see the construction on streetview but not the full fence. St...

You hit the nail on the head... I thought this was a real award until you pointed this out and I looked at the previous winners. It's kind of like a seat on the Human Rights council at the UN. Presto implementation - This half-finished, behind schedule implementation of a Metrolinx boondoggle...

I'm not sure why this is off the table. They use fencing in Montreal, even downtown (e.g. Rene-Levesque) to minimize conflicts between pedestrians and vehicles. It should definitely be considered for sections of King street. See here, next to Metro Cote Vertu, for instance. Obviously not...

Is it just me or does "50 years going strong" on top of the construction hoarding sound more like a statement about the interminable Union Station construction than about the history of GO transit?

I see in Arizona that there are railway crossing arms though, and the HuLRT won't have any (correct me if I'm wrong).

That's really a shame... that tunnel would have given the BRT an actual time savings over driving, which would be an incentive to take it. The best way to achieve a mode shift is to give transit an edge in travel time, so it's not just a slower and indirect way of transport for people who can't...