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Why pick on Lawrence and York Mills? Both are actually pretty well used. Above subway averages, at least. I guess theoretically, the reason you tend to have lines following the street grid is because feeder routes work on the street grid, and those feeder routes are where most of the...

Well, first, I'd just note that the lack of alternatives isn't a justification for any given policy. For instance, it's not like we could build a surface LRT or BRT on College or Dundas, yet that doesn't justify building subways willy-nilly. The best solution would be to increase turnover on...

Gahh... I had wrote a longer reply but my browser crashed, so this will be more condensed. Re. Train capacity, I think your numbers are off. A TR can hold 183 ppl, and the TTC acknowledges that's a conservative estimate. At that level, peak demand on the ECLRT would take about 29 trains...

Legally it could, I guess, but that would never happen. Queens Park would have nothing to gain from pissing off the City like that, and given how Toronto-centric Wynne's government is why would she risk all of our petty councillors peeing in her cornflakes? Moreover, while lots of people here...

You can't completely disentangle the surface and subway portions, though. The subway component has to be designed around accommodating the LRT vehicles, so the stations are much larger than one would expect from such a low ridership subway. At 5,000 pph/pd, the underground segment could...

I'm pleased with their shortlist of high performing options, specifically how frequently GO/TTC integration was mentioned. Some specific questions Was this ever proposed before? I've never heard of such a route. Also, I guess TTC fare policy is out of ML's hands, but why no mention of...

I think some kind of rapid transit to the Islands would be less ridiculous than is commonly assumed. Granted, it wouldn't be my #1 priority, or even in the top 10, but the islands could be a decent travel destination in their own right. During the summer months the ferries see 20-30k passengers...

It looks good. It seems like it would be nicer if the bike lanes were located on the sidewalk side of road landscaping, which would give the cyclists a greater feeling of separation from traffic. That and, not to be pessimistic, but lots of the apparent improvement here is coming from...

Well, yes, they kinda do. If new build condos are coming in at 600$ per square feet, demand for condo units will overwhelmingly skew towards smaller households. It's always popular to bash developers, but how many families will really be lining up to lay down 800k on a condo (which is half...

Historically, I've been in favour of tolls as a way to raise revenue and manage demand. I wonder though if technology shifts will change that. The biggest issue with tolls is usually their cost to implement. "Smart" tolling systems are actually pretty expensive. I believe London's congestion...

Downtown circulator system Not that this would ever happen, but this would be my idea for replacing the 501 (and/or) the 504 (and the 510) cars through downtown Toronto. Unlike most DRL ideas, it wouldn't be focused on poaching BD passengers, since I assume a well designed GO surface-subway...

Looking at historical results for Trinity Spadina, Rosario didn't seem to loose many votes. He was pretty consistently elected with 17-19k votes, which is in line with the last election. I wonder how important the riding's demographic shift (condo dwellers) is to the big increase in Liberal...

I don't understand how this is really the fault of developers, or how mid-rise buildings would hugely alter the balance to favour families. The cost of construction for a mid or high rise structure will almost always be higher, per sf, than for wood-frame houses, and in so far as families tend...

Why are you guessing? The study is pretty clear that the ridership is coming from GO and BD, not local demand or even transfers from busy routes like Spadina or Dufferin. Spadina does well because there are lots of businesses around there, so it (and Sherbourne) attract a fair number of...

How the DRL interacts with the 501/504 is beyond my ability to answer. I do feel confident in saying that upgrading these routes to transit malls would achieve ~80% of the transit time savings as building a fully underground system for ~80% of riders, though the politics of actually implementing...

The 'relief' impact of an Eglinton-St.Andrew DRL is almost the same as a Pape-Dundas West DRL. The difference is negligible. There's no need to fetishize 'relief' this much. The TTC is begining to sound like it's selling arthritis medication.

Queen and Dufferin's use, in the DRTES model, is largely a function of GO transfers. Ditto for Roncesvalles, Gerrard and Bayview/River and even Dundas West. Cumulatively, those stations are supposed to see 10k peak hour transfers from GO. The total peak hour boardings of those stations is...

Yes, there's most definitely lost revenue. The question of how that loss of revenue compares to the cost of adding more capacity. Ideally, we'd see a combination of elevated peak-hour fares and free fares immediately before and after it, to maximize the delta between peak and near-peak travel...

The SRT is fine for its environment. No amount of super expensive design and "place making" would change the fact it runs behind recycling plants. The Spadina subway is hardly a case study of "focusing only on moving people." Particularly its intention to jump-start development in the...

It's a bit unfair to claim it's relying on 'magic,' congestion pricing is a fairly well established field of research and evidence suggests it works. (EDIT: Actually, the claim that consumers respond to shifts in prices is one of the most universally accepted concepts of economics, which...