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Why not Keele Midtown, Dufferin Midtown, Bathurst Midtown, Don Mills Midtown, Bayview Midtown, etc? Naming stations after small nearby streets is a bad idea. People use station names to know which major throughfares they're at and orient themselves. Where the heck is Silverthorne? Fairbank? etc...

Have they decided what the LRT cars will look like yet? I'm kind of hoping they go with a painted silver look to distinguish them from the downtown streetcar network and align them more with rapid transit by making them look the same as Toronto Rockets. Sort of like the scheme they have...

An animated billboard has gone up on the Cineplex @ Enterprise Blvd. It has a Dundas Square quality to it in that it is REALLY BRIGHT and lights up the street (especially the future Marriott Hotel across the street). I want moar of these :D Makes the area so urban. Signage like this is a first...

I'm going to point out the problems: 1) Why is the pedestrian cross button located in the middle of the road. So if a pedestrian wants to cross the street, they have to walk across an active bike lane to activate a traffic light? That makes absolutely no sense. By the time they've gotten to the...

Jaysus. Bayview to Warden in 12 minutes at the height of rush hour? Definitely would not have been able to do that pre-rapidway. But yes, normally the buses don't go this fast. They usually slog through the rapidway at 30km/hr the entire way. They really should look into getting rid of the...

To prepare for the eventual use of the Toronto Rockets on the Bloor-Danforth. The process has already been done for the YUS. The new TR air conditioning exhausts blow towards the ceiling as opposed to the track on the older trains. Wouldn't look too great on white paint. I think Broadview has...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoyvHarmZI Some more awesome STCUM promos lol

http://www2.markham.ca/markham/ccbs/indexfile/Agendas/2014/Development%20Services/pl140520/markham%20centre%20viva%20report.pdf According to this, there will be no pedestrian mall.

So does this mean Simcoe Promenade is no longer a Pedestrian/Transit-only street. Now just a wide 5 lane street? It was one of the more unique parts of Downtown Markham -_-

One thing that I'm disappointed about is the red asphalt. It doesn't look nearly red enough to distinguish itself from black asphalt, especially at the intersections. Or are they adding another layer of paint to make it brighter? At the entrance/exit point of the rapidway @ Chalmers...

The rapidway from Bayview to Hwy 404 is set to open in three weeks. :D

The T&T is finally open. The store definitely borrows elements from the Toronto Maple Leaf Gardens Loblaws store (Funny thing, we actually saw a uniquely-colored orange shopping cart somehow taken from the MLG store with Loblaws logos and all, being used by employees to move produce around)...

http://www.yorkregion.com/news/article/1374351--transit-ridership-increases-despite-strike More fare hikes in 2013. More service cuts in 2013. Ever since we imported this guy from Bostons MBTA, hes been tearing this system apart. We never saw cuts and fare increases at the same time under...

I see the merit of having 100% low-floor LRVs for the downtown streetcar network, given people board in the middle of the road. It would also be impossible to retrofit all of the 1000+ streetcar stops to support level-boarding to a high-floor LRV. But given the Transit City LRV cars are...

They have also razed that GOD AWFUL factory that was located next to the westbound Viva station @ Enterprise. So nice to see this area is transforming. :)

Not to mention, the i-Metro-e would draw feeder bus riders from major east-west routes such as Steeles, Finch, Sheppard, that would normally ride the long bus journey all the way to Yonge St. The buses on Steeles/Finch especially see busy loads near Kennedy Road.

Of course there's nothing there. Didn't the project just start 2-3 years ago? A project of this scope will take 20+ years. But I do agree with your comments that youth in Markham seem isolated and sheltered. When I moved to Markham, many of them had never been on the subway and/or rarely gone...

I suggested this idea to Adam Giambrone at the time he was chair. He said he liked it but without funds, there was nothing he could do. The problem with TTC signs: -It mashes ALL RELEVENT INFORMATION into one sentence on the sign without any form of organization at all! -It does not create a...

Funny that you mention this. Today while I was riding the purple, I noticed inside the Warden/Enterprise jug handle. They've dug out sections of the asphalt and have started testing different types of ground for the rapidway. There's a REALLY REALLY bright pink they've begun testing, as well as...

They probably mean York Region Transit. The media has a tendency to confuse the two.