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I was okay with eliminating Jane on the basis that it is very close to Mount Dennis, and it's not that much of a jaunt for the Jane bus to go on Weston then back to Jane. Also on the basis that this is what Jane/Eglinton looks like, surrounded by nothing but park space: Some of my favourite...

At $280 million/km, we already are getting a light rail line at the cost of a subway on Eglinton. LRT was an odd technology choice for this corridor; it made sense in the Transit City concept of LRT everywhere, where you could share carehouses, equipment, interline, etc. But by itself, with an...

The stop spacing for the more grade-separated lines are a little silly... 3 stops at the airport and then just Kipling and Scarlett. Why would you need a stop between Pearson and Renforth, let alone 3? And the Islington bus is one of the busiest in the system with a weekday ridership of ~18 000...

I think cycling would actually be the perfect solution to the "last mile problem" for most GO stations, you only have to bike a couple kilometers to the station then for 90% of your trip you are on a train. Those kind of medium-distance trips are perfect for cycling. Taking away some road space...

What you're saying about not terminating at the airport makes sense: there's a great blog article "Keys to Great Airport Transit" in Human Transit about transit and airports that makes the same case. Combine air travelers and airport employees on the same train/bus, and appeal to an...

I'm kind of curious what the demographics are of this forum: employed/students, profession, age, location, etc. I think we probably have a wide spectrum.

According to the Toronto Star: Average cost of car ownership in Canada in 2014: $437.48 / month or $5 250 / year. Insurance/parking is probably more expensive in the GTA than elsewhere in Canada, though.

You can't complain about personal attacks in exact same sentence that you make a personal attack...

+1000 I am pretty sure that 40 years from now we are going to look at city planning's obsession with height and density in the same way that we look at 1960s city-planning's obsession with separation of uses: as an inane, baseless assumption that causes more harm than good to city building...

But are cyclists getting killed because they are rolling through all-way stops or because they get hooked and dragged when going on greens by drivers doing right turns without checking their blind spots? Generally (I can only say generally because I am dismayed by some people's lack of...

I'm a cyclist who follows the "Idaho stop"... legal status is kind of murky since I know the city recommended to the province to allow them but I don't think the highway traffic act has been updated. Normally whenever I come to a complete stop at a 4-way stop with a vehicle the end result is...

I mean sure, you can do a fine-grained analysis and second-guess their results. But generally pedestrian/cyclist injuries are almost never reported and I don't see the character of the streets fundamentally changing such that streets with sharrows turn from traffic sewers into market plazas...

Just saying that it would be nice to see bike infrastructure not included as an afterthought. That's what ended up happening when Montreal replaced the Bonaventure expressway with a linear park, without any consideration of linking their two major east-west cycle trails. And I can see the...

I know these are preliminary renderings of a megaproject that has little hope of being realized in its entirety, but it's still disheartening that the renders show that out of 16 football fields of space, they're not able to allocate a 1 meter strip for separated bike lanes. Sharrows are less...

It's funny, early versions of the DRL looked at going to HBS! Personally, I think that with the WWLRT and Lakeshore GO, it doesn't make sense to have all three modes going east-west in the same corridor. Having a Sunnyside hub for transfers from GO/LRT to the DRL would be a good solution but...

So I know this isn't directly related to how fare integration would work within the GTA, but I just wanted to give an example of how convenient (and cheap) paying for transit fares within the GTA *should* be: I have an Opus card (for the Montreal area.) I've signed up for a service (Opus à...

Maybe we could line Eglinton with 1000 giant ducks?

Why not both? That way you would improve pedestrian access to the lake, and improve the path system, while still not inconveniencing riders heading to points further west/east along Queen's Quay. Steve Munro wrote about such an option, where expansion of the Union loop would leave room for a...

It doesn't have to be a dark tunnel. Riding the funicular could be just like the Bund Sightseeing Tunnel in Shanghai! Its length is 646.7 meters, about the same as the Bay street tunnel if it's extended to the ferry docks. Or maybe there could be animatronic animals singing "It's a small...

Those are all very real obstacles to fully autonomous cars. Some of them might not be even resolved until after self-driving cars are wide-spread. I think the strongest case, though, for self-driving cars comes from this: Self-driving cars have the potential to drastically reduce fatalities...