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Well for one, that map shows "Proposed Island development" aka Harbour city, which would have had a huge impact on the city if it were built: It also shows the "Proposed CN/CR development" aka Metro Center In general, the worst GTA sprawl happened in the 1990s and 2000s, so having all that...

The problems with the hyperloop are financial/logistical, not physics-based. Just like with the Liberal's HSR proposal.

You've just described the origin of almost every transit line in Toronto.

Increasing speed would increase frequency... if the same number of operators/vehicles was used and schedules were modified to account for the faster speeds. The real-world impact of speed increases might not be as beneficial as this though, if it just results in more layover time or if the TTC...

I was talking about making Yonge/Bay one-way, not King/Queen. Sorry for the confusion. I don't think making Queen/King one-way is a good idea because: Transit service should be in both directions on the same street, instead of making people walk 400 meters if they want to go the opposite...

Except that induced demand isn't the same with proper road pricing, which is what we see with the 407.

That's the impression I get too, the city is making so many accommodations and concessions that they've managed to turn a simple and intuitive concept for transit priority into a confusing mess. We will see what the result is when the data comes, but I doubt it will be much of an improvement on...

$2 billion to refurbish an existing line? The last estimate was $360 million, which I'm sure has inflated in 10 years since then, but not by a factor of 6. Even if it costs the same price, you end up with more kilometers of rapid transit than the status quo, and with reduced operating costs...

That means it's almost 10% empty :mad:

Yes, at the time, which is why I agreed with you 100% at the time. But if the combined Eglinton LRT-SRT was built, then there would have been no SSE. Knowing now what happened with the SSE and its $4 billion price tag, in retrospect the MOU was a better solution. Once the MOU fell through, the...

Well, ideally instead of just punishing municipalities for not meeting the deadline, they would have provided some, any funds to help with the expensive job of retrofitting the entire subway network with elevators. I think the TTC is on track to meet the 2025 date though. The federal funding...

It would aggravate Yonge line capacity issues between Eglinton and Bloor but it would improve the Bloor-Yonge situation. I don't see how it would have worse capacity problems on Eglinton though: it's grade separated so train frequencies aren't limited by the at-grade sections. Vancouver's Canada...

One of the major benefits of the DRL is that it saves $1 billion+ in disruptive reconfiguration of Yonge-Bloor. Rather than spending all that money and not moving anyone a meter further by rapid transit than today, the DRL reduces transfer volumes to a fraction of what they are today. It...

A few things: why would the train speeds be faster on the dedicated passenger tracks? I know freight causes delays and reduces on-time performance, but for trips that are scheduled with no freight conflicts, wouldn't they achieve the same speeds since they are limited by track geometry? Would...

Kind of sad, that was the plan under Ford. I hated the guy when he was Mayor and thought the plan was dumb at the time. but looking at the current $6 billion Eglinton line that stops at every red light + $4 billion one-stop extension to STC now I realize how good it was. Make it ICTS to save on...

Ah, but the Moscow metro was designed to double as a fallout shelter in the event of a nuclear war. The deepest station is 84 meters deep, compared to 9 meters for the Bloor-Danforth, 15-18 meters for Sheppard and 18-20 meters for the future DRL.

Not sure what you're talking about: Line 2 ATC signal conversion is fully funded and is considered a pre-requisite for the SSE: when the SSE is built, it will be built with only ATC, not the legacy signalling system, so line 2 needs to be upgraded before the SSE is ready for testing. From the...

I look at this map and I'm struck by how much more direct CN's rail line is. I travel Montreal-Toronto regularly by Via, and I would never book a route that went via Ottawa because it adds about 3 hours of travel time, even if they have it coming every half hour instead of every hour. If that...

What I don't understand is that the TTC is already doing expensive and disruptive rebuilds of the streetcar system, so why aren't they updating the switches in the process? For example, this is the current state of Queensway: Bathurst/College rebuild from two years ago: Queen/Spadina...