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It looks more like Metrolinx hired a consultant to help come up with a protocol for standardizing names across the whole GTHA, including all the local services that have "stations" (e.g. YRT, MiTrans, ZUM). The Crosstown people were then forced to use that protocol for developing their names...

ummmmm . . . really?. http://www1.toronto.ca/parks/prd/facilities/complex/28/

Can't call it "Keele" because there is already a Keele subway station on the Bloor-Danforth line. I personally like "Thethewey". You can't avoid using a certain name just because some people currently associated it with bad things. In ten years the name may have a totally different connotation.

I think "Leaside" for the station at Bayview was alright seeing as the commercial core of Leaside is just south of there, and "Laird" is a unique name. The station at Leslie should be called "Sunnybrook Park".

It's not a question of "if" but "when". One day the technology will be there to safely bury even the biggest lines, and the value of the land those lines currently sit on will be high enough that developers will be willing to pay to bury the lines at no cost to the utility company. When that day...

Historically that is correct though. The original village core was on Spadina but the boundaries of the village included the lands on three of the four quadrants of Bathurst and Eglinton. Both entrance buildings at Bathusrt are technically within the boundaries of the former Village of Forest...

I'd say that is unlikely. It has to do with both demand and parallel services. If anyone is going any distance between Burlington, Oakville, Mississauga or Toronto along that corridor they will take the GO train. Dundas Street will more likely be used for shorter trips of a few kilometers. More...

It may finish earlier but probably won't start earlier. I'm not sure they've committed to a final phasing plan yet but at one time it was suggested that they would build the 407 (where the service yard is) to Cooksville section first, and once that was up and running they would extend the line...

Metrolinx should just name the station at Yonge after the neighbourhood it's located in . . . Yonge and Eglinton.

Wasn't the alternate route discussed at that meeting the original one from the 2010 EA - up George Street. If so, then the five or six years worth of work has already been done for that option. Any new option on anything other than Main or George would require a whole new EA.

One of the arguments some Bramptonians made was that the LRT did very little for Brampton - it was essentially a regional line to help connect people from Kitchener/Georgetown to Mississauga, which is true. But lots of highways that Brampton critically depends on run through other...

You'll just have to live with dozens of diesel buses on Main Street for another decade or two.

That wouldn't be very cost effective. If they broke down or needed to be replaced they might not be kept. Decisons like this are largely economic. If heaters are expected to get enough bums-on-seats to make it a net profit they will be included in the design. If heaters are not expected to...

Viva BRT runs on a 15 or 20 minute headway most of the day. If the Crosstown runs on the same headway then absolutely it needs heated stops.

That depends on the frequency. If LRT's only come every 30 minutes then heated areas are important. If the LRT's are coming every five minutes they aren't really necessary.

One of the cons of the Hamilton route is the HRS would have to dip down through the City of Brantford, but originally the line went almost straight from Dundas to Woodstock. The straight line that bypassed Brantford was taken out of use when a bridge collapsed in 1916, but the old track bed is...

In Canada we have Lay's Butter Chicken Potato Chips. In the USA Ketchup Chips are too exotic.

Allen will have two entrances, one on either side of the Allen. The diagram I saw had a public tunnel connecting the two (e.g. you could use the tunnel to avoid crossing the Allen intersection without having to pay the fare). The tunnel then connects to a fare-paid area that then connects to...

Personally I think the biggest problem is they refuse to use the well-accepted practice of using hyphenated names Like Yonge-Eglinton. Every station along the line could have it's location pinned down exactly with no duplication if they just used that naming convention. Also, Metrolinx has just...

Bill Davis will likely be in a senior's home by then so they should have no opposition.