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Does anyone remember a tender for 'legal services' or was KPMG sole-sourced/"hand-picked" like everything else to do with TTIL? If they wanted to keep cost under wraps for this pie-in-the-sky conception, they should try something truly innovative like an open-sourced, group-sourced design...

I've just had a quick look and it'd be tight, but doable depending on their design speed. As a rule of thumb, a 160m radius can provide 25 mph operating speeds. I couldn't get google to draw a circle, but a rough Google...

It's probably better than I remember for Brits. I had a tendency to look the wrong way whenever crossing the road, and there it's a bit tricking knowing from which way to expect a car. Was a bit of a hike up to the footy. It'll be interesting to see the final product of Picadilly next year at...

There is no one perfect solution, but each techology does have a proper place as well as limitations. What is important is finding the best solution for a particular area. From the choices available: yield signs, stop signs, signalization, roundabouts, and grade seperation; a roundabout is the...

Nice find. Is it just me or does it look like Jane and Weston are in some 'future phase' and they're looking at 24 stations now?

I think there is a different is scale between Oxford Circus and Square One. There are 38,000 pph (Oxford Circus), while Rathburn/Duke of York is predicted to have 3542 vph in 2031. Unless you think thousands of people will start walking to Square One, this isn't the place for a pedestrian scrable.

The original spacing was 850m average subway (~11km Keele to Laird, 12 stations, 13 tunnel segments) and 450m-500m average surface including Phase 2 (~8km, 15 stations including Kennedy, 13 segments).

I think it'll be the tail end of July, if not August before YRT goes live. There is no date on the http://www.yrt.ca/presto/index.asp page yet. In related news, Durham RT is starting Presto co-fares on Monday (June 27).

Aye, 850m average spacing would give 30 stations over 25km. However, from Jane to Kennedy is ~19km and the SRT upgrades from Kennedy to STC is ~6km, without additional stations. 26 stations over 19km from Jane to Kennedy is ~760m spacing (10% under original 850m), which would be slower than...

I've not been out there in awhile (July '09), but there were only 7 wayside power cabinets installed at Milton Layover Yard then, and I don't recall seeing a tender for the provision of a new one. So unless someone else can remember differently, there isn't the infrastructure in place, although...

Since you are no expert and you didn't want to accept my explaination, instead of just "leaving it", I actually just asked someone... While it's Metrolinx doing the work, the TTC still has input to set the parameters of what they are thinking of doing. The 'up to 26 stations' is more of an...

'Driver' is a modern addition to UK usage because train operators are no longer necessarily engineers. The term is meant to cover two of the three main unions for rail in the UK: Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers, National Union of Railwaymen, and excluding the Railway Clerks'...

I'm not the spelling police, but I am a Grammar Fascist. Just as half and haft are two different words, so are lose and loose. If you use a loose haft of an axe, you might lose half of a leg.

http://www.peopleandparticipation.net/display/CaseStudies/Morice+Town+Home+Zone,+Plymouth I had the opertunity while working in the UK to comment/contribute to the Morice Town Home Zone. The most amazing thing of the process was the building of a community spirit that didn't exist before the...

In 2015, the GO2020 Plan requires hourly off-peak service between Union Station and Milton while the 2020 horizon increases the off-peak service frequency to twice hourly departures. The GO2020 plan defines the service limit requirements as between Union Station and Meadowvale with service...

In an interesting side note, Lake Ontario is tilting from the glacial rebound. The Canadian side is rising faster than the American side, contributing to the receding coastline in Toronto. Also, the east end is rising faster than the west end, contribution about 300mm difference over the last...

The Milton EA got pushed back with the Electrication Study and the Cambridge extension impacting the design. Metrolinx tendered the survey and grading work (for specific property aquisition requirements) this spring. It's still in the top 15 projects, but they are keeping it quieter due to...

Tracks aren't 2D, there is both a vertical and horizontal alignment that will add length as compared to 'as the crow flies'. The $1.4B figure already includes only 2 stations. Going under the Don Valley isn't just a deeper tunnel, it's operating time and costs for going up and down long...

Point emissions is only one way of viewing our impact on the environment, one that makes Canada look much less environmentally friendly that it actually is (60% of our electricity generation comes from Hydro and another 15% from Nuclear). Both the environement and economy are global issues that...

I'm still most upset about the east-west portion of the LRT that runs along Northfield to Conestoga Mall. This is supposed to spur development in the central corridor, not provide trains from one mall to another. Uptown is already feeling pressure from the redeveloped Conestoga Mall, so unless...