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Maybe this thread should be renamed "GO transit hydrification" :P

That's true. What's overlooked is that hydrogen is really just a method of energy *storage*, the energy still needs to be generated and then converted into a usable form. Hydrogen just adds a middle-man (with accompanying efficiency losses) in order to avoid the up-front capital costs of...

Your Thanksgiving dinners don't sound very appetizing.

I think there's also an inherent distrust in giving credit card information to a system that hasn't figured out how to properly charge a fare. I don't trust my cellular provider enough to let it auto-bill me, let alone the provincial government's latest NIH-syndrome boondoggle.

Nope, not by an employee. By a volunteer high school student. Imagine some snotty 14 year old shoving you into a packed train. Enjoy ;)

Maybe a DRL station instead of a streetcar tunnel to Bloor ;)

Maybe there are now, but in late December all I could see was construction hoarding. Peak shopping season at the Eaton centre really isn't the best time to switch to an honour system with a single tap-in location. To be clear, my card balance was fine. I learned to always keep a high balance...

I dunno, so far Presto seems like a complete clusterfuck to me. My last trip to Toronto: Walk in to College station. Don't see any fare gates. End up boarding without paying because I haven't spotted any functional machines by the time I'm at the platform. Walk in to Dundas station. This time...

I do see some issues with this alignment, even though it's great that there would be a station in the middle of campus. 1. You lose the "St. George-style" interchange because line 1 and 2 are no longer parallel to each other when they intersect. This might not be a big deal depending on how it...

I don't have any quibble with the naming of the University line stations (Museum station is next to the ROM, the Ontario Parliament buildings (called "Queen's Park" are a stones throw from the subway entrance, and actually would have an underground connection if it weren't for security reasons.)...

So, today was a huge announcement for the REM, bringing it into the realm of reality (construction starts in two months!), and I just want to compare and contrast the two projects. Both have similar costs (Eglinton is $5.3 billion in $2010, $9.1 billion including maintenance, whereas the REM is...

Huge news for Via's HFR: They've announced the contracts for REM, and it includes allowing VIA to use the Mont Royal tunnel: Edit: Seems SamStar beat me to the punch about Via, but before the news of the finalized contracts

There is basically a trade-off between having a radial system and a grid system. Toronto is laid out on a grid, and our rapid transit has been built under those major streets respecting that grid. A radial system is great for commuters getting downtown. But if you want to go anywhere other than...

Can you give an example? I find it strange that residents would be appealing to the OMB when the zoning bylaw amendment would be the easiest time for NIMBY's to intervene.

I'd say the exact opposite, the OMB should become the de-facto planning body for the province. We need more density, especially near transit stations, which municipalities fight tooth and nail. There's no consequence for municipalities not making their targets. Any municipality that fails to...

That would be a wonky transit line, going all the way from UTSC to Square One, and alternating between being: In a 100% grade separated highway ROW from Square One to Martin Grove with stops every 1100 m (~11 km/10 stops) Running on street on Eglinton, stopping at every light and mid-block...

Unfortunately, Ed Levy's book seems to have disappeared from the internet :/ should have downloaded it when it was still up. But here is what he proposed: This is a really cool idea, but may be infeasible because: 1) "decoupling the Yonge and University lines would be very challenging and...

Additional technologies that VIA should consider for allowing high speeds on tight turns:

Their average commute is 4 minutes shorter than the average commute in Toronto. In principle, denser development and less separation of uses would decrease the distance between destinations, decreasing commuting distance and commuting times. I wouldn't say there is anything ridiculous about...

This. I don't see how anyone in Metrolinx who signed off on the Big Move (Leslie Woo, Bob Pritchard, etc.) could have read the thing, noticed that after about hundreds of billion in investment, if everything is built and rosy projections are accurate, that mode share would not even move. It's...