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And he lives within walking distance of a subway station. Imagine how illiterate he must be about how to get around by surface transit. Not that that should be a reason to build subways... There are always people who will drive, no matter how punishing the city is for motorists or how good a...

Back to the loop: The loop wouldn't be such a bad idea if it was used to short turn every second northbound LRT. In essence, there would be LRVs that went from Port Credit to Brampton, via Hurontario, and LRVs that went from Port Credit to MCC, via the loop. You could also use the loop to run...

^Again, I think there really is a lot of merit in building intermediate level stations that cannot, and should not, be handled by regional rail. What sort of message are we sending if we have subway stations at places like Bessarion and Chaplin, but nothing at King and Bathurst? Or...

There would be an operator in the front and rear cab. When you get to Hamilton James street, the other operator would take over and the train would "back out" on the same set of tracks. It's not unlike what already happens with GO trains at the ends of lines already. It might add 15 minutes...

I'm still not sold on building the DRL as a GO-REX. There is still a lot of intermediate-level need in a dense, urban city that subways are very good at serving but S-bahn type services are not. For example, stations like Ossington, Christie, Broadview and Lansdowne always get a healthy amount...

Aldershot has 2 advantages: it's near Bayview Jct and there's great car access. I think Aldershot should always remain because of its car access (let's face it, this will always be important in the GTA), but I think Hamilton James Street should be the primary transfer point/hub for all these...

Very cool writeup, Craig. It really puts the process of planning in focus, and explains why developers basically stick to what is easy: building highrises in areas where previous developers already "fought the good fight" of changing local zoning by-laws and the official plan. That is, high...

Yes, totally agree. Of course, two things would really help: 1. Having cross-platform transfers at Kingston and London. This allows a GO-local to meet up with a VIA-express at coordinated times so that passengers can transfer from one to another to continue their journeys. I don't know...

GO trains are quite long, so a platform on the southeastern side of the Queen-Dufferin intersection would not be too far a walk to a King-aligned DRL.

I think an exclusive King street alignment is better than something that goes north to Queen. Liberty Village is probably a more important trip generator than anything in Parkdale along Queen. I also think it's more important to go up Roncessvalles to Dundas West than up Parkside Drive (half...

The article is pretty good as they go. The author probably succeeded because she went to Toronto's inner city neighbourhoods without focusing on the downtown core. When I put myself in a visitor's shoes, Toronto is really three cities: (1) The highrise downtown core, which, while...

Where did you get that? My impression is that the GO station will just as utilitarian as every other suburban GO station. The somewhat impressive looking pedestrian overpass is done out of necessity: the tracks are already submerged in a trench. My impression is that the original Beaux Arts...

This is all great news. Still, it's been years since the EA was approved and the funding was offered by higher governments. They've also done some preliminary utility work and expropritation/demolition - but that was over a year ago, too. What's taken them so long to finally settle on a...

I thought it would be redundant to run a subway line parallel to eventual, high frequency GO-REX service between the Junction and Mount Dennis on the Kitchener line. Actually, the only reason I thought of extending the western DRL to the Junction, instead of ending it at Dundas West is that I...

Okay, just for fun, here's my subway map for 2050. I've left out stations on the BD/YUS/Eglinton-Crosstown (which I mistakenly coloured purple), since we already know where they are. I also deliberately took out the GO-REX system otherwise it would have been too crowded. Nevertheless, you can...

Totally agree. After the Leslie barns are finished, I'd like to see the TTC retain the Roncessvalles carhouse properties for an eventual "Sunnyside" superstation. It would have the following connections: - DRL - GO-REX - 504 - 501 (western terminus) - pedestrian connection to St. Joseph's...

There is no market for small format, high rent streetfront stores. Nobody will boutique shop on Markham Road, south of Ellesmere. There's probably more of a market for large(r) format grocery stores that caters to the existing community.

The automobile-orientation is not my main beef. I don't expect it to do otherwise, either. I just think that, given the midblock, suburban, low income surroundings - one of the bleakest in Toronto - this development can't wind up being anything but a self contained fortress that residents...

I agree with Silence and Motion. This isn't "pedestrian friendly". This is a self-contained, automobile-oriented high density, masterplanned condo project that is built with complete disregard for the surrounding area and users others than its own residents. It's basically Dubai in the snow.

I once went to a lecture by an academic who analyzed hundreds of official plans and site plans across 4 decades, and she came to the conclusion that the level of technical knowledge and citation of actual evidence declined with every passing year. By the 2010s, many plans were based entirely on...