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I doubt Bixi is really displacing a lot of car trips anyways... its target is short, local, errand type trips in the core, which are rarely done by cars downtown anyways. The target demographic of Bixi is not driving for errands already. It will displace primarily walking and transit trips, and...

The Craigslist ad was probably fake. yet, since it appeared and raised awareness of astroturf, I can't help but notice the pro-Ford propoganda on various media sites has dropped to about 10% of what it was...

Toronto most likes to compare itself to Manhattan, but in reality the built form is uniquely Canadian. If you had to pick a city most like Toronto in built form, it would probably be Vancouver. Dense core that never really hollowed out before being recolonized, surrounded by a mixture of...

The H6's are much newer, and are only a few years out of their big midlife build. More importantly, the electronics packs are newer and less prone to failure. How often are you on an H5 and the car is broken, just being dragged along for the ride? How often for H6's? Exactly. Even the T1's seem...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/a-victory-for-left-leaning-bloc-of-toronto-council/article1982945/ A victory for left-leaning bloc of Toronto council It begins... edit: and, in a surprising twist, Giorgio Mammoliti says something dumb.

http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Surrey+push+TransLink+light+rail+mayor+says+state+city+address/4603478/story.html Surrey, BC, prefers at-grade LRT network over SkyTrain extension

If you're going to privatize services, then do it right and allow true competition. City endorsed private monopolies are no better or worse than if the city itself partook in those monopolies. My hometown has NO garbage collection. NONE. Not public, not contracted. You're on your own. There...

It's not just cultural. Toronto's urban area is very, very dense. Brampton's overall density is 16/ha - and close to half the city is still farms. Mississauga is 25, the outer 416 is in the low 30s, and the inner boroughs approach 70, with the core and fringes well into the 80s. If you set say...

It's not that code prevents them. Elevators are very expensive pieces of machinery, both the equipment itself plus the architectural considerations for fitting them in. In cityplace type buildings where cost is a major consideration, developers will put in the bare minimum they can get away with...

The one at Eglinton and Chaplin, which was "under renovation" for a while, is now dead. That was another one of those really surprising ones in the middle of a pretty well-to-do neighbourhood. It was almost always completely empty except for the token sketchy character in the back. No idea...

The spadina side is way less crowded. They short turn half the trains at St Clair West in the morning, I get on at St Clair W and there are about 20 people on each car when the train leaves southbound, usually still seats available down to St George - and that's with people waiting for the...

Interest rates are no longer being dictated by the federal policy. The bond market is running the show now. With many nations continuing to dump bonds on the market, it is harder to find investors to buy them, and the yields creep up. That's what's been happening in recent weeks. We don't need...

Ford would look at a map and claim that downtown already has a subway - you have to experience the crowding firsthand to realize how bad it is.

Remember John Tory and the religious schools? Yeah. Even in Alberta which has severe labour shortages and thus even day labourers are making six figures up at Fort Mac, the foreign workers program is not well liked. In a region with a persistent unemployment problem? Never, ever fly. Besides...

THe problem is not nodal development. The problem is we have too many nodes. If we had 3 primary nodes, say Mississauga, North York, and Scarborough, and focussed our development on them accordingly, it would be much more efficient to serve them all with higher order transit between downtown and...

Jane, were it built, would likely never make it south of Eglinton. In the longer term plan it probably made more sense to interline it into the Eglinton tunnel and feed into the Spadina subway rather than continue south. Waterfront West - given that it moves pretty well even in mixed traffic...

But neither De Baeremaeker nor Mihevc are gaining anything that wasn't already planned under the original Transit City... De Baeremaeker is possibly losing something depending on whether the SRT extension would have had another stop in his ward.

Yes, I suspect the planning will be used in the future. With two LRTs and the SRT extension basically ready to go, it's a matter of months to restart construction. I don't expect any Transit City line is dead. Finch is almost certain to proceed as soon as the money becomes available, the SRT...

Wow, even the Sun is calling him out on it ... kind of. I still dont' think Finch should be sacrificed, but the more I think about it the more it makes sense to have it fully buried. The simple reason is that this will almost entirely divert SRT traffic off the BD. With the new trains and new...

The theory is that criminals are using the Skytrain to make the getaway after committing a crime, and a largely unmanned system has nobody watching to catch the bad guys. Putting in fare gates would force them to man the stations. The whole notion is ridiculous - would you expect someone to...