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I admit that some components of the tramsit city plan are okay. Finch LRT, Jane LRT, yeah why not. Quite frankly, there is not enough money to build LRTs either. Own right of way LRT is quite expensive. I don't see it happening in Toronto, unless if you have other corridors in mind, or...

lulz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4o-TeMHys0

lolz why do this when you can buy a vacant lot in chicago for less than 1000 dollars...

Wrong. We are dealing with a dictatorship. We do not have participatory planning. The public does not participate. It's just token participation - aka just informing us "yo mon we're doing this, ktnxbai you've participated by hearing what we're doing". Such stuff is miserable. It defines what...

Ya, if we are talking about the cornfields/open prarie land, then yeah. That's how trams worked. The transit companies would build these lines out to nowhere and all of a sudden development would spring up. Many lines failed because they were built for the land speculation more so than other...

Didn't you hear, subways are witchcraft, better just avoid them and make trams in their place ya know. Perhaps even convert existing routes to trams, as trams are so cool!

Don't forget to include Kenwood when talking about Hyde Park, as it is like beside it and has a similar rich status. In fact, the CTA had an entire branch going to kenwood. The mofos demolished all of it, imagine that!

Sounds messed up - the LRT tunnel will go upwards... if it were to be a subway then there is that "going up" problem to deal with. Hence building such a tunnel discourages any sort of subway plan there in the future.

Bullocks. There is only one station there that gets quite low rideship, bessarion. Others are decent. Bayview gets about 10,000 a day. That's success. Apparently you do not want to realize how much sheppard has done. That's a shame. Nooo dude, the truth pains their eyes. Have mercy upon...

The problem comes when different companies run buses along the same route. If there were fewer bus companies things could be much more efficient. At least I would think so. But, since the war over there the bus routes have been given to certain "ruling class" interests, as rewards or something...

Lucky... But Seoul's problem remains that there are like 80 er so independent bus route companies. They need to put them all together. The subway expansion hurt the bus usage, overall in the last 30 years. But more oughta be done to reduce the number of these operators. Hm, okay I guess...

lolz yeah, in chicago they built lines into the cornfields 100 years ago. It was used to promote development. The pink line is overwhelmingly elevated, not at grade. A small part on the very end of it is at grade. The point stands, that the sheppard line is a spactacular success that we...

Bullocks. Metro implies heavy rail and high capacity. Why do you want to cut your capacity? If you are building so much it's best to have some in reserve. Don't forget, the models used to promote the low long term ridership figures are just wrong. It underestimates growth, and extremely...

Aww man here we go again. If you are already digging, then there is no reason why not make that a metro instead of a tram. The difference in cost is minimal. The metro is superior, and the better long term investment. You could. They were underground lines for cable cars... that is a...

Make that fiveish kms - to jane. Add that with even more than that up along sheppard, to finally finish that corridor so that this already successful corridor becomes useful. My start can be done in a shorter time frame than what you have in mind for a start. In the long run I have a...

No, the plan simply has some okay things with much insanity tossed in. My personal opinino - extend sheppard, and build eglinton west as planned in the 1990s.

Well I kinda disagree with this way of looking at things. The ghettos in chicago are far more widespread. So, the result is that one would not even want to go to half the area that the system covers. What good is that then? Meanwhile the affluent places lack good mass transit, many suburbs in...

There has been no change in Toronto, but in much of the world there has been big change in those few years.

Bullocks, transit city is convoluted. It has some elements that are okay. And then it has some insanity. Overall it is something designed for naive narrow thinking masses.

Looking at Chicago... almost all those black neighborhoods on the east and south side are for the most part 98% black, if not more. That is not diverse. It's segregation.