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I kid you not and what would you like a break from? Haha! No offence intended. Maybe one day there will be an electric GO service in the east end of Toronto that departs every fifteen minutes. Maybe the east end will become phase 2 (of Smart Track?) since we're already building an extension...

That's a lot of maybes and what-ifs. Maybe your friend was just confused. You could have also told him that if he transfers from the Bloor-Danforth extension to the Eglinton Crosstown at Kennedy, he can get to Yonge and Eglinton without ever having go to Yonge and Bloor. If your friend is...

You could see how this might work out if branch 1 turned north off Sheppard (where the SELRT was going to bisect with the Scarborough LRT) and continue to the Malvern Town Centre; and, branch 2 continues east just passed Morningside and turns south to the UT Scarborough campus. Where the two...

"...if York University can get a subway, he suggested, then surely Scarborough (UT Campus) can get an LRT..." G&M reporter paraphrasing Bruce Kidd, interim vice president and principal of UT Scarborough...

These are some interesting fantasy scenarios but given that the Minister of Transportation, Premier and newly elected mayor have all said they're not interested in changing course from a subway extension of Bloor/Danforth to Sheppard and McCowan, I think it is likely we will see an acceleration...

SWEET Map! Could the Harperites pick up more votes in Toronto if they let us get rid of all the expensive secretive bureaucrats and construction crews at the TTC and Metrolinx and use our migrant worker program to import Chinese people to build some real trains in our life time? CPR 2.0?

Here's the the back of a ward 42 candidate's propaganda flyer. Kabirul Mollah is offering a "SUBWAY EXTENDED TO TORONTO ZOO," "MORE ROUTE & RELIABLE BUS SERVICES" and "FAIR FARE." I don't think Kabirul is a regular Urban Toronto user, but whatever sells. FAIR FARE, I love it.

What an asinine comment. It's kind of hard to use transit when it doesn't exist. Chicken. Egg.

I really like this idea of a RoW circulating on King and Queen. Back in 2012, in some other thread, I suggested something similar. 3 lanes of traffic (or 2+parking) and 1 curbside streetcar lane. The rotation at either end only goes so far, so that if the streetcars further out run in...

If Ford wins maybe we can at least count on free crack for everybody.

I think there are a couple more reasons for this continued debate: 1. Politicians trying to make a name for themselves, whether they are the "LRTs are good enough for Scarborough" crowd like Josh Matlow or the "Subways Subways Subways" chant of the Edenbridge mafia. The bribery set sniff a...

What a great idea. If the subway is going to go up to Sheppard, and likely Finch one day, why not build an LRT line from STC that crosses 1- Centennial, 2- UTS 3- Malvern and then 4- Zoo. Those also might be good names for the stations. It's always puzzles me why the TTC thinks about LRT only...

More on this transit economy. I would go so far as to say Ontario could plan, in the long term, a reverse of the Great American Streetcar Scandal, as portrayed in Martha Olson and Jim Klein's documentary film Taken for a Ride (available on Youtube as of 2013). There has been criticism of this...

No, no offense. But like any other railfan in Toronto, or one issue campaigner, I felt my options were very limited. The Liberal are crooks, in practice. The PCs were crooks in waiting. The NDP didn't so much as peep a word about transit. So obviously my best option was just to make fun of...

Given your peculiar fascination with the good people of Scarborough, I don't think it would be a good idea for you to presume what east Toronto cares most about. Jobs are good, but getting to those jobs would be helpful too.

I have to ask, representing the former borough myself, why the big hate on for the eastern 40% of Toronto? And what's all this about what Scarborough deserves? Are you looking for retribution? Did you stick your finger in a bird cage at the Zoo as a child? The GTA, and all of Ontario for that...

The Bloor/Danforth subway extension is far better for Scarborough, especially if it can be extended up to Finch. Even if the SELRT is not built, you will have Sheppard and Finch buses (on both sides of McCowan) flowing into the line, relieving congestion. The Tory plan for what essentially...

True there is nothing up there (NW Toronto: Rexdale, Yorkwoods, etc.) just like there is nothing in NE Toronto (Malvern, Agincort). Both need to be built out with modern rapid transit. Each of the Sheppard East LRT and Finch West LRT were supposed to address these voids. So much of Toronto...

Tim Hudak on the physics of subway travel. "The subway is a great way to travel but the more packed it gets the less people take it...†I'm not a physicist, so I would like to ask the forum community if this statement is technically possible. I am aware of the trend of highway use...

My guess is that the Sheppard LRT will go forward as long as Ford is not re-elected as mayor and Hudak is not elected as premier. The other municipal and provincial candidates will get out of the way and allow Toronto to finally build instead of talk. There is more likelihood of a disruption...