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I know Wendell Cox is ideologically opposed to transit spending, but that is kind of irrelevant to my point. He was just quoting APTA statistics when he stated that transit ridership has only just now reached the same levels it had in the mid 1950s despite significant population growth...

Outside of the city of SF, I couldn't imagine living in California without a car. Even in LA, which has expanded its subway system tremendously over the past while, has not really made a dent in mode share because driving is just too attractive and destinations are too spread out. There may...

Apologies for not responding to this earlier, it slipped my notice. But it's worth mentioning that exurban and suburban development are the exact opposite of what you want if you are trying to build an intercity rail market. If you're in a car-dependent suburb which is a 30 minutes drive from...

I'm going to let that sit there so the irony can be appreciated. So in island city-states with world-record population densities, punitive automobile ownership costs, non-existant land use restrictions, and a government grant of monopoly + land, it is possible for a transit system to exist...

Eglinton is privately maintained, and was originally going to be privately operated but that changed after some outcry. The point is that nowhere in the world is there a transit line that pays for itself. And in North America it is almost impossible to recover operating costs, let alone capital...

From the article: So the situation is exactly like with the Eglinton crosstown: a private company is building/operating the line but it's still paid for and owned by a government agency.

That's the driest thing I've ever heard.

Are you sure that "Unlicensed Version" isn't just @Elite People's real name?

You're talking about the "Glen Murray" alignment? That's because, to switch from an east-west to north-south alignment, most of the route was tunneled anyway to meet the minimum curve radius, so only a short amount of it would be on the surface, which is why cost savings were minimal. Where...

You don't absolutely have to have a highway penetrate directly to downtown from multiple directions in order to have a successful city. Vancouver and San Francisco are fine examples of cities without urban freeways. Arguably, not having that highway would also mean that the rail line would have...

Why would the city tax Green P parking when they already own Green P and get all the revenue from it? They could just increase their rates. On top of that, they could introduce a general parking tax like Montreal did.

Absolutely! Developers aim for the high end of the market first, then if that is saturated they go for lower-end housing. But that's how it's supposed to work. And it reduces prices through a process called filtering. Let's say you build new high-end housing. People looking to up-size want all...

This ties in to the myth of zoned capacity, the idea that you can parcel out a set amount of permissible units, regardless of the economics of building those units, and expect that to meet future housing needs without price increases. Think of this: let's say the entire city was nothing but 2...

Zooming in: Personally, I frequently travel Toronto-Montreal and I've learned to automatically pad 30 minutes to the arrival time. 3 out of 3 of my last trips were delayed by that much. The worst delay I've had is 3 hours... the train went on the wrong track and had to wait before it could...

Why do we need to "bridle" home construction in a city with a housing affordability crisis? What liveability is sacrificed by having 12 storey buildings instead of 10 storey buildings? Why are midrises so distasteful that we need to outlaw their construction outside of the noisiest...

SKYTRAINNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I thought that preventing scenarios like this and other incompatible land uses was the entire reason that we accept restrictive zoning, multi-year planning approvals, and sky-high property prices.

Does the cycling connection involve doing an Evil Kenevil-style jump?

How about Scarlem?

Could be worse. How about "Transit-shitty"? :P