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In a perfect world it should definitely run elevated on Parkside to meet BD at Keele. This would save a LOT of money not to mention make for a sleek transfer to the 2. It also avoid compromising capacity for future service on GO. Of course if it runs in the median, NIMBY's will lose their...

There is definitely enough room for tunnel bores and this has been provided for with the mentioned setbacks for underground infrastructure. The contention was whether it is feasible to build surface/trenched/cut-cover next to the rail corridor. The ROW is ~21m between Kipling transit hubs...

@Railrunner This application has been settled by the OLT since June and is simply awaiting the finalization of a Section 37 agreement between the owners and the city, upon which the settlement will be "released" E-decision here

Seems like the fancy sales centre is going to double as a second station facility for Oriole GO. From today's main page article.

Couldn't you dig a trench to run the subway through to reduce noise/disruption to the condo owners? Like the Blue line in Calgary, it runs very close to dwellings as shown below Obviously heavy rail is noisier than LRT but wouldn't you only need 50%+1 of unit owners to agree to sell the ROW...

GO expansion means a train every 15 minutes or less. Combined with UPX that's a train every ~7.5m on average, and the fare is actually only $5.65 to Union from Weston on UPX. During off-peak it's also under 20m to bus to Lawrence West station with no need to cross the street to access the...

Maybe this is why they've been stalling on implementation? Along with through-running complicating things Anyway I vote we make the Bolton Line the Δ Delta line, to reduce confusion 😃

I thought the lines were simply lettered in a geographical clockwise fashion. Though it would make sense to combine the lettering as service is combined.

First to Yonge, then to Pearson (in place of UPX) I agree. Which would be a pretty mediocre development IMO instead of having a connection to Don Mills and Kennedy. Maybe by 2030 we'd have a full Crosstown line... 11.25km of tunneling from Yonge to Kennedy is no joke! Wonder how many stations...

I just want to point out that the proposed net density on this lands is almost identical to Toronto's total density, so the PC's are at least giving some credence to the idea that sprawl is bad. From the sounds of the proposal there will be MZO's and multi-family is very profitable so I can see...

The increases are ~18k and ~34k for 23' and 24' respectively so not exactly earth shattering. Low weighting for economic immigrants in the increase, mostly going to family allotment.

40 TPH is an industry standard for a purpose built automated metro so no one should be skeptical in the first place about the Ontario Line. It may have been an exaggeration to say Line5 could be retrofitted for such operation but they should be able to run at least 34 TPH if not 36+ TPH with...

Clark confirmed in question period today that they are hoping to substitute lost development fees through Federal housing accelerator funds. CBC has the story I agree that without supplementing municipal revenues you'd just be essentially defunding municipalities or making them adverse to...

This is pretty vague so we'll see what happens

Clark said he's going to consult with the city before making any sudden moves... but knowing the PCs I'm afraid you'll be right.

I'm confused... doesn't Toronto require 100% rental replacement at the previous cost of rent? And we have rent control in Ontario... renovictions are a thing but really who else is being displaced?

Theres pros and cons to the way we did things. I for one think we got at least 3 more subway stations on Eglinton than if Harris hadn't canceled Eglinton West. The TTC never planned to build Oakwood and they would be scared Chaplin/Laird/Leaside would become the "next Bessarion" and cut some of...

T is a common transit symbol in Greater Vancouver, especially for rapid transit

Sounds like only the IZ units (not the whole development) are exempt from the above charges, so I guess limiting the affordable units to 5%/25 years is "fair". The city can always negotiate for more affordable units in any given development in a settlement, and such units being charge exempt...

Many announcements of consultations / future announcements in there lol. Consulting with municipalities to reduce property taxes on affordable housing / multi-family buildings in general, consulting with developers about land speculation, consultation on expanding vacant homes tax to more...