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Same issue with Georgetown. Milton Transit, while it exists, is way too small scale given how big Milton is now. With 100,000 people you'd think Milton could easily have two or three express buses routes feeding into the GO station from different areas plus a network of local routes feeding...

Which is a shame because it would be very useful for the Eglinton line to intersect with Lakeshore.

So when spadina opens, westbound AM peak departures from Union will alternate between Wilson-bound and VMC-bound?

The O-Train in Ottawa has bidirectional service on single-track with passing sidings and it has a 98% on-time performance rate.

My best friend's parents live in a Woodbridge McMansion and they're quite loaded. Her mom works downtown and drives to Downsview then takes the subway. The rich do take transit too, just not all of them obviously.. same can be said of any income group I guess! In Ottawa, the federal government...

Tourists often trouble with the TTC. When I came to Toronto for the first time I was very confused as to how the fare system worked.

Kathleen was in Ottawa yesterday and she explicitly commited, for the upteenth time, that the province will fund Phase 2 of Ottawa's LRT plan.

One big difference. The streetcars get red lights. The ECLRT will have signal priority to guarantee that it will always or almost always have green lights at every traffic light it crosses. In order to make that feasible, you need to make sure there's enough time to traffic light cycles to give...

It should be noted that if the 1994 Eglinton West subway was built, it would have created a problem just like Sheppard. Recall that the original proposal was for a Sheppard subway from Downsview to Scarborough Centre, and a Eglinton subway from Eglinton-Allen to Renforth. But the NDP government...

20 years it too short. The pavement will have to be redone in 20 years but the bridge structures--which are by far the most expensive part of a freeway project--last for at least 50. Closer to 100 with the newer construction standards. Plus fixing up a bridge or pavement when its lifespan is...

Yes, it will be a big improvement. The ticket machines, in addition to spitting out one-time tickets, will also be able to reload PRESTO cards, and issue new PRESTO cards as well. The Confederation Line's fare system will work as follows: -If you have a Presto card, tap it at the fare gate and...

I dunno... the Confederation Line in Ottawa won't have ticket agents, ticket sales will be machine-only. There will be webcam stations at entrances that people can use to talk to customer help agents, if necessary, but there won't be any ticket agents physically present in the stations.

Yes, there's problems with the math justifying a subway. Should we cancel it and change gears back to LRT? NO! What's done is done, this city needs to stop with the endless flip-flopping, cancelling, and restarting, and get to just building already. The province should pass a law prohibiting...

Yep. A lot of the relatively unorthodox strategies Ottawa is using for the Confederation Line--like excavating stations from within the tunnel & using roadheaders instead of TBMs--are all because of the unusual geology. It's all solid bedrock underneath downtown Ottawa, unlike the soil & clay in...

York still has high-floor buses? I thought the province imposed a deadline of December 31, 2013 for all transit buses in the province to be low-floor.

Is there really a point to having route 1 at all? VIVA stops frequently enough that there is no need for expensive paralleling service. Get rid of it.

If I were the Supreme God of Ontario, I would get rid of the Yonge extension to Steeles, and push that into the next round of funding post-2024. I don't see that extension being useful at all unless it's all the way to RHC which is not affordable at this point. Use the extra to pay for Durham...

Agreed. GO RER is a huge improvement. Let's say it does cost $12B. The GTHA budget is $15B. With a contribution from the City of Toronto, we could squeeze in DRL phase 1. DRL phase 1 + GO RER by 2024 is a very solid improvement. GO RER is effectively rapid transit, so by doing we can build...

The government is already hiking income tax on people who make $150k a year or more. One thing I could see the government doing if their budget projections don't happen in reality, is lowering that threshold down to maybe $90k or so. That would significantly increase revenue. While the vast...

Maybe not 10 years, but getting both within 12-15 is definitely going to happen. Look at the Liberal budget for freak's sake. It provides enough money for both projects through a dedicated revenue stream. With respect to pensions, an expanded government pension is absolutely necessary given the...