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Higher capacity, lower operating costs, and improved rider experience. All of those are pretty good reasons even if it wasn't going to be faster, and with a separate right of way it will be.

I will, I was sorry to have missed the last one.

I agree that Rob Ford personally wants to kill the Eglinton line, he did afterall campaign on doing so. But I also have a hard time believing that councillors like Stintz, Nunziata, and Parker would consent to killing a line running through their wards. I think the choice here is between acting...

The density map seems to disagree with that.

I agree that Eglinton will probably be built in some form, but I'm not certain. Ford and his executive haven't been clear either way. That is exactly why now is the time to be active. If Ford announces that Eglinton is its current form is dead, he will have invested his credibility in the...

I live at Neville Park, and do take this bus sometimes, and it is another good example of the importance of local transit. It's an express bus for only part of it's journey. In the Beaches it still stops every 200 to 300m and does the same thing downtown. No one needs to walk more than a couple...

Considering their horrible coverage of the campaign, and of municipal politics in general over the last few years, I'm not terribly sorry for them.

I couldn't make it to the canvass on Saturday, but I did do some door knocking with my local federal candidate. We ran into a couple people who admitted to voting for Rob Ford, but had no idea he planned to scrap the transit plans and were now regretting their decision.

The GO Train is actually clear evidence that people don't want distantly spaced express stops. Almost all the GO Transit stations in Toronto have limited passenger numbers. Give people a choice between TTC style local transit, and GO high speed express transit, and almost everyone seems to...

The good news is that Toronto-East York Community Council is wholly under the control of the rational part of council. A lot can be done on the community council level, and that is where these councillors will direct their energy, since they're excluded from everything else. They counldn't go so...

All this is making very clear who we need to knock off next election. Palacio and Parker fell well below 50% of the vote in both 2006 and 2010, and both seem to be backing Ford's full agenda despite representing middle of the road areas. If it looks like Ford has a chance at reelection in 2014...

The distance from Front to St Clair is 4.8km. On that strectch there are 10 subway stations on both the Yonge and Spadina lines. That's an average stop spacing of 480m. It think those in Scarborough would be more than happy with that spacing.

Sorry, yes confused which line was which. It's shrinking west of Dufferin.

If you look at the population growth map for Toronto, Sheppard west of Bathurst is one of the most quickly shrinking parts of the city.

At the moment we're averaging about one major transit project per decade: 1950s - Yonge Line 1960s - Bloor Line 1970s - Spadina Line 1980s - Scarborough RT 1990s - Harbourfront and Spadina streetcars 2000s - Sheppard Line Pretty much everyone agrees that the DRL East, Eglinton, Spadina...

The Sheppard West bus gets about 16,000 riders per day. Eglinton, Jane, Finch, and Don Mills buses each get over 40,000. There are many other routes that don't have a planned upgrades (Lawrence, Dufferin, Steeles) that also get far more riders than Sheppard West. While congestion on Sheppard...

Did you read the very page you linked to? That page opens by stating "This is the newest but the most troubled of Montreal's four metro lines. It has never performed up to its traffic expectations, which explains both the shortened trains and the shortened hours" If the Blue line with 80,000...

A couple other things, people have organized: E-mail city council to support Transit City. Calling Ford's office at: 416-397-CITY (2489). They are reportedly keeping a tally of how many people call in from each side.

Fro The Star:

Rather than swinging accusations, go out and talk to people. If you ask people in Scarborough, as the city did, if they want many stops or few the overwhelming desire was for a lot of stops. There is a tendency to fetishize speed when it comes to transit lines, in part because it is a very...