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The real issue for speed, even today, across the border is the border controls. It might be time to start building US preclearance facilities at major stations (Toronto, maybe Hamilton and London). Not sure if the US would allow this, but it would speed things up to make the trains U.S...

The discoloured glass might represent a failure of the low-E coating. It isn't the most reliable technology.

I can only imagine what will happen when a problem shuts down the gondola network for a couple hours. "Hang in there everyone!"

I don't think this is a better route, unless the Yonge Subway does get extended up to cover the top of the existing GO RH corridor. Realistically speaking, all the curves on that route would have trains moving pretty slowly, and I doubt anyone will pay for a curved tunnel under Leslie for...

LRT has proven its ability to act as a reliable backbone for transit in mid-sized cities. Hamilton's (and KW's) proposed system will act very differently than Transit City. That said, BRT might be better for the mountain routes, which all operate over only a couple of streets in the lower...

Really good map. If I had a suggestion it would be to angle lakeshore east to the left so that Danforth is at least close to Main St., then take it straight up from there.

The city sets the zoning. Its the tool used to direct growth to certain areas, and prevent it in others. Mississauga chose to allow high-density growth in an area far away from the subway. There are a lot of advantages to its location, but one disadvantage is the difficulty of serving it by...

I agree that it seems to have paid off during the car-dependent phase of growth. But if Mississauga wanted their centre to be served by a subway then they should have put up at least along Dundas. Surely in 1978 somebody noticed the Bloor subway achingly close to Mississauga at Islington. Yet...

Mississauga lost its chance for a subway extension when it decided to locate square one in the middle of nowhere, instead of someplace easy to extend a subway to. York Region on the other hand has been building up Yonge St, and has made plans for VCC which is coincidentally the closest part...

"TTC has made it hard enough for 905'ers by removing free parking for metropass holders and now this?" The TTC has no responsibility to 905 riders. If removing free parking for 905ers allows for more service in 416, then thats what the TTC should have done. Back on topic: I think...

I think Georgetown and Woodbridge are more analogous to Etobicoke or Scarborough.

More crossovers downtown won't be all that useful. There are two parallel lines running north from downtown. Its the one part of the system that actually has some network redundancy. Bloor-Danforth could probably use more, and hopefully some of the east-west LRT lines will provide some relief...

Yes, of course people with impaired mobility deserve equal access to transit. As for returns on investment, you should be looking more closely at the able bodied. Reducing stairs on buses and streetcars speeds everybody up. Not only that, but it greatly reduces the chances of a step...

I don't particularly support the island airport, but if it needs a parking lot to be successful, so be it. But, there is plenty of underused space around the silos that can be developed. I really don't see where this proposal to knock down the silos is coming from, given opportunities to...

Comparing the cost (or potential cost) of Eglinton to the SRT is way off the mark. The SRT spends most of its route paralleling a railway corridor, and thus doesn't incur the land costs and construction difficulties that Eglinton would have (outside of Richview). More importantly, SRT runs...

I think the idea was for the eastern route to avoid Parkdale, which is often congested and a source of delays for the 501. Although I dont think the very long on-street loop is ideal.

Actually, Paris has plenty of extravagant stations. Pretty much everything built after WW2 (RER, Mo. 14) has been over-built. Probably because they learned their lesson after their small stations were overwhelmed after decades of ridership growth.

Greyhound may have to shift its focus in order to survive, but there is plenty left to serve in southern Ontario. GO has only threatened the Toronto bound services, and even then only to a certain distance out from the city. The two newest long distance GO bus routes (Pickering to Oshawa...

Speed is so important, but a faster service won't attract new riders?

I'm not saying we shouldn't hire architects for the spadina extensions, but its relatively straightforward to get the stations working well. The architects will mostly be responsible for aesthetic improvement. Architects are educated to make functional spaces (though they often choose not...