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Yard connections at Downsview - would have been a lot easier 10 years ago before all the development along Sheppard - and getting across the Don River east of Bathurst. It's one of the largest ravines in the city and will necessitate a station at Bathurst to be either incredibly deep, or the...

Realistically, 7 Ave SW. In Toronto, Bay will always remain prominent, though it might be superceded. The prestige is in the core and will always be in the core; it's a matter of which way it spreads. King East, maybe?

They undergrounded the wires on St Clair while doing the streetcar project. Actually, I believe they did the undergrounding while the RoW was held up in the lawsuit. Don't be decieved; half a block either side of St Clair and there's Mr 6-tierl Hydro Pole waiting there for you. I presume...

I don't know if anybody noticed this, but to keep elevateds from costing too much, the columns take lanes away from traffic. Almost certainly the supports for a station structure will eliminate turn lanes. Just like LRT, except costs twice as much if not more. The primary reason...

Everden. It only runs under that street for two blocks just south of Eglinton, but it is sufficiently obscure that it will end up being one of those random curiousities in the future.

Actually, I think this sort of user fee is actually probably more appropriate than the flat rate car tax. Even that might have been better recieved had it been prorated in some way. The fordies are gonna be pissed though. No doubt about that. Honeymoon, consider yourself over.

Easy enough to say. But people are idiots. Eg, I work for the provincial gov't. Many of my co-workers have nothing as they've subscribed to the "job for life" and pension theories. Meanwhile, with a Hudak win in the cards, I can see those layoffs coming a mile away away and have begun preparing...

The "tailspin into complacency" had been ongoing for many years. Miller was the exception to the rule. It's not that places like Vancouver and Calgary are rushing ahead with city building; it's that Toronto used to be like that too and some decades ago, slowed down to a crawl. The reality is...

The Spadina extension will no more funnel off Jane's loads than the sheppard subway did on Finch. Even when they tried to force it by diverting Finch buses to Don Mills stn it still failed miserably to do so.

In reality it's starting to sound like there is going to be way more activism directed towards saving Eglinton so that's probably where the money will end up going. The SRT conversion is fairly likely to proceed as well as it's grade separated all the way to Malvern and thus acceptable to the...

The reason the LRT runs to Don Mills is so that people transferring from Sheppard to Don Mills LRT don't have to transfer twice and ride the subway one stop. If both lines are built then the westbound to north and southbound connections will become more important than straight-through...

stopping current activities like soil sampling will cost more than letting them proceed. That's part of the $130+million "sunk costs". stopping them now means we'll just be paying the contractors to do nothing, which seems to be acceptable for our gravy-fighting mayor but I don't think...

The LRT is the best option, no doubt. Providing silver-plated service to many rather than gold-plated service to a few. The accusations of "transfer city" are ironic as the subway does not reduce transfers except for a very selected, relatively unimportant travel pattern carrying no more than...

Yes, to offset the DRL costs, it is important to remember that those two or 3 km between Sherbourne and Spadina will be quite possibly the most complex, expensive pieces of infrastructure built in Canadian history. The connection to YUS and intervening tunnel will almost certainly cost more for...

Probably with a lawsuit.

Most employers provide coffee. An awake worker is a productive worker. Business tax increases? Good luck with that one. The Chambers of commerce and BIAs can afford a full frontal assault on such a proposal. Never thought you'd see the day when local business starts getting pushed to the...

Why, at this rate we should find the other $399,952,000 in budget gap our new mayor has managed to dig up in the 9 days in no time at all!

You can literally walk faster than the buses on Eglinton on the central stretches at some times of day. I dare anybody to take the 32 bus between the two subway stations during rush hour and tell me that something doesn't need to be done. If they're running in convoys, and they usually are...

They're really extrapolating there. The conditions of the market have changed, for example we've had an unusually high number of starts int he last little while. That would be the lagging effect of the spring boom; everything sold unusually quickly and they had to jump through the hurdles far...

Oh, we might have asked for funding, and even gotten it, but it is low priority and would have been dropped off the same as Don Mills. With limited money Sheppard would end up on the bottom of the funding list, again and again. Arguably in the longer term, the northern crosstown link...