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I think we're calling the next notches down from BRT; Quality Express and Bus on Express Route. - Double bus passing lanes (to get above 2,000 ppl per hour, according to TTC) define Quality Express -- and the TTC Rockets/expresses branches are just BER ... unless these definitions were revised...

or ultimately, BANANAs: "Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anyone" http://www.wordspy.com/words/BANANA.asp BTW, if there are nimbys among the weston folks, and there always are, they are not out in front I think the folks leading the effort are fairly progressive (as well as media-savvy...

and i reckon the best time to present a long term solution for the YYZ and georgetown corridors is september 26, 2008 (RTP draft is tabled, scheduled approval by november 28, 2008) http://www.metrolinx.com/default.aspx any reason why it should be later than that?

--HD, the line was not sarcastic; and may have in fact been quite ingenuous -- it was a personal example of the "gut feelings" my post was addressing >> i.e. I'm not claiming to be immune of emotional bias -- it almost always influences, subtly or grossly, our arguments -for those who wish to...

GO riders haven't clamoured for "quiet cars" as US commuters have i wonder if americans would also demand a few cars be TV-free, just cuz they can't handle the visual distraction

pros, cons, gut feelings and trams i think nostalgic is used as a way to categorize any number of emotional attachments some feel toward streetcars the person using this approach, and I've heard it from many people, may just be attempting to alert street rail supporters to their emotional...

-call it DRL or Queen subway, but for what length would it actually run along Queen? Say I'm going from somewhere on the Queensway to Strachan to check out a *new* bike. Do I bail out at Ronces, go down into the tube and ride til Ossington, go up and walk over to Stron? -might not save me...

-someone can update us technologically, but my impression is that the Pearson peoplemover, pulled by cables, is very difficult to extend -that said, i do recall something about extending it south to a Renforth/Airport transit hub (earlier discussions looked into the GTAA's paster plan process...

-aye, a 'quīnta essentia' question.

-thanks be to Jupiter this discussion is capable of evolving past the absolutist (bus bad, tram good) phase -can i suggest that when debates focus on specific routes, and projected ridership estimates fall in that gray zone between two technology choices <<i.e. it could go either way>> that we...

-the reference to walking directions was not meant to imply anyone would need to walk to Mt.P from Yonge, just to indicate the distance -for the sake of those who won't be so limber in 2015, the only thing I'm asking is that no-one presume in advance the ridership will be trivial on an...

From Spadina extension EA: "Completing the calculations using these assumptions results in approximately 5,500 AM peak period transit trips travelling northbound on the Spadina subway extension and alighting at York University station." Not clear if that's opening day or a future year. Using...

-using Google maps walking directions (beta), Eglinton from Yonge to Redpath looks about 400m, to Mt. Pleasant is ~700m. (That's two blocks long on the north side, six on the south.) -now we get to the nit and the grit: guesstimating how many people take transit less cuz the intermediate bus...

-hold on there -- maybe some folks don't object to schlepping 0.85km to a stop, but there are a lot of people whose access to good transit would be significantly diminished with such wide spacing -stop spacing is a trade-off --somebody always loses -- but you ought not risk seriously hurting...

it would help to know if the speed estimate is for the surface or tunnelled pre-metro section -- or an average of the two. in his latest post Steve Munro asks of the underground portion: "The real question is what, if any, residual bus service will be operated over this portion of the...

and we know the problem is not just technical; such as how to physically allow for express and all-stop in the same corridor... the problem that is being discussed behind closed doors is whether Blue22/TARL can make a profit if there is also a local/all-stop option to the airport my bet is...

It was closer than you may think... From: http://transit.toronto.on.ca/streetcar/4002.shtml It was always the TTC’s intention, from the 1950s onward, to abandon its streetcar fleet. The opening of the Yonge Subway in 1954 resulted in the abandonment of a large portion of Toronto’s...

not to defend the TTC's five/six-month-long escalator rebuild program, nor its ability to restart an escalator within, say, five hours, but most of them are not in climate-controlled environments most every other esca is inside a building with regulated temperature, which is a key factor in...

Star AIR-RAIL LINK opinion piece "Rapid transit yes; old diesels no" http://www.thestar.com/article/473531 snip: "If we are going to spend nearly $300 million of public money to build this, let's build something that serves the many neighbourhoods along the way, including Weston. We really...

that's the big question -- it seems that the Ontario government somehow feels obliged to negotiate with the winning "bidder" of an opaque RFP put out by the feds years ago not sure why MOE seems to be portrayed as a lead on this, presumably cuz of the outstanding EA process -- but MOE...