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No. Think about it; it doesn't take 4 years to get LRT vehicles because they do nothing for three years and then hurry to finish in the last year. In all likelihood they've already done much of the detailed design and perhaps even taken out some of the subcontracts. The TC cars are piggybacking...

The clearance issues are due to the fact that the only feasible way of conversion to low-floor is to raise the track beds in the station, which is why there are clearance issues. It is not feasible to lower the platforms. In-tunnel clearance is a lesser issue as the voltage is low enough that...

Don't worry, he wants to freeze property taxes so we'll easily afford this small added business cost. I also kind of wonder if this might piss off the contractors enough to stop doing business with Toronto. You can argue about which company doesn't like half-billion dollar contracts, but at...

Yes, because this election was totally fought on a transit platform...

Oh, it will result in wasted cash. You don't think McGuinty will subsidise Buffoon's wishy-washiness, do you? If he fails to cancel this then he is basically a lame duck failure of a mayor right from the start. I suspect this is what will ultimately happen, there seems to be a rising tide of...

Screw that, I want the maglev from my front door to my work. It should be set up so I don't have to take slow lame old-fashioned elevators on either end either. Rob Ford will provide maglevs for all! Toronto will be the most magnetically levitated city on earth!

Metrolinx will compromise by putting the Eglinton line underground between Weston and Don Mills, while still building the remaining plan in median to save money.

I gotta say, if even the star's comment section (that bastion of enlightenment) is calling Ford an idiot for this then I'm guessing people are pissed at his stupidity. Congrats, you just killed transit expansion in Toronto. Possibly forever.

In the full report they even show a graph of time married vs happiness. If "Single = 0" then just married = +30, married 5 years = 0, and married 10 years = -20. But being divorced makes you unhappier so tread carefully. It's not exactly a precise science. Full list: Sherbrooke QC...

It's all speculators. Meaningless.

If you read the actual report (you have to go to the website's main page and then get it from there) you can skim and see what they have to say. The difference is minor, and is entirely explained by a) stress levels (Torontonians are rather stressed) b) Low marriage rates (Torontonians...

It's a bit ironic though, the very same people that are militant about resisting zoning laws are the very first ones to go whining to the local government when their neighbour tries to do something that would lower their property values by say building a gas station in the middle of a...

Eglinton is also planned to be truly crosstown, instead of never making it west of Dufferin. You have to compare apples to apples, a "crosstown" line that has 80% of its length in the eastern half of the city, isn't.

St Clair West is my home station. It seems to work fairly well, though it can be a bit delayed if they make sure the train's empty before pulling it into the pocket track, and is a bit faster if the guard is in the last car instead of the fifth. They don't seem to reinsert them in strict...

It needs to be pointed out that that 76% is offset by the fact you need a perimeter road around such a subdivision, and it's probably 6+ lanes wide. In the grid pattern there is not usually a perimeter road and if there is it is not usually that wide. The economics have also changed based on...

There are an incredible number of people passing through the Imperial building's lobby though. It has had 20-30 people in it every time I've gone by in the last week. So, obviously, despite the price levels it's apparently ridiculously popular. The clientele might be different, it might be...

We do have a full LRT in Toronto. The 501 averages about 28km/h on the Queensway. Subway from Dundas West to Old Mill = 6 minutes 501, Humber loop to Ronces, = 7 minutes. These two are directly comparable in level of transit service they provide. Difference is, the 501 is a fraction of...

Why's the roof corrugated like that, particularly the long way? That just seems to be asking for corrosion problems.

^ indeed, the downtown wards will almost definitely oppose him, and his proposal for eglinton will not make him any friends along Eglinton west of Victoria Park. Most of that's solid Ford country except right around Yonge street.

^ Yonge street was, and still is, a very high traffic surface route beyond the end of the subway. If there weren't capacity issues in the south end then that's perhaps the only justifiable suburban expansion. That's the thing about Toronto's subway lines. The successful ones were all...