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Re: 2nd Yonge Line This should never happen. Toronto would literally be the only place on earth that would build an entirely duplicative subway under a current one. To begin with, Yonge's spacing is already pretty 'express,' especially north of Eglinton. Maybe Rosedale, Summerhill...

Literally directly above my post nfitz remarked "There's a difference between it being using the TTC fare system (which is what Tory promised) and being the TTC fare. Which TTC fare? What about the TTC premium fare of $5.70 that you pay for using the 140-series express buses. Are those not part...

No, Tory's campaign explicitly promised the line "will have the same fares as regular TTC rides." Clearly that implies normal TTC token price. Clearly lots can change between now and when the line opens, if it ever opens at all, but I don't see why the need to pretend as though that hasn't...

Hmm? No it didn't... BD EBt-> Yonge SB volumes go from 9,150 to 6,480 vs. the reference network. With a full DRL that only goes down to 5,270. The DRTES was also considering a Lakeshore RT. That isn't necessarily apples-apples with smart track, which travels more in BD's catchment area and...

Lots of cities use systems "like" ICTS, is what I said. Including other proprietary systems like VAL or the AnsaldoBreda one, lots of cities do use proprietary driverless metros. Right, but my original point was that outside of the LIM component, there's not necessarily any huge difference...

Most systems have a good deal of proprietary technology anyways, especially with signalling systems which are almost all proprietary. Payment systems, also, tend to be proprietary. The only somewhat bizarre thing about ICTS are the LIMs. Nobody's ever explained, though, why ICTS lines couldn't...

That's just speculation. There's no teleological rule that the DRL is needed, unless you define DRL so broadly as to include virtually any new transit line downtown (RER as DRL) Especially if the Yonge extension line doesn't go ahead, it's completely possible that no one on this thread will...

There's no health difference between Canadian and American milk... Moreover, even if there were, the supply management system would have absolutely nothing to do with it. All governments can and do pass regulations on product safety, in 99% of cases without creating cartels. The current...

Reality isn't House of Cards. Harper could care less about Bill Davis or Brian Mulroney, both of whom have been set out to pasture for decades. Clearly there's a lot of overlap, which everyone acknowledges, but parts of the program seem like they'd benefit from municipal involvement. There...

Prob meant audio-book?

This has been studied endlessly. The basic takeaway is that a Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal route is projected to have a very small positive impact, the rest of the routes would be negative: Which, in the context of a project which could very easily see billions in cost over runs, is pretty much...

You're extrapolating from a trip you take on a (presumably) semi-regular basis. France isn't representative, it's overly centralized around Paris. I don't even think Nice or Marseille have year-round trans-Atlantic flights, which is ridiculous given the population of South Eastern France. I...

Why does everyone seem to think that connecting the airports would be some kind of boon to HSR? The global evidence is quite unambiguous that HSR's entire travel time advantage is in providing more convenient access large urban cores. The fastest and cheapest way to travel between Pearson...

The implied subsidy there isn't that big. The 407 charges 50 or 60c per km for heavy vehicles. From Toronto to Montreal that would be 275-300$. Unless Megabus is running their coaches empty that wouldn't be a huge add-on or come close to making up the difference with rail. The 401 between Oshawa...

A recent article in the Star on the skewed infill development going on throughout the area. The great Toronto rebuild The inability to increase density on these properties seems to be leading to mansion-ization and declining affordability.

That's not the case at all. You're simply attributing all the development in Stratford to the Olympics, which is insane. There has been massive redevelopment literally all over London (and the world...). You have to tease out what the marginal contribution of the Olympics were. There's...

Every area of London has seen massive 'urban renewal.' The property market there is absolutely insane. The last thing London was ever short of was property investment. Maybe the Olympics redirected some investment from Dalston to Stratford. The idea that Stratford would have been the one part of...

I think the bigger issue is that most entrepreneurs would have trouble swinging both the design and production aspects of their product. Taking on a big production space and all the necessary equipment is a huge business risk which would be very hard to finance (bordering on impossible). It...

Is there any evidence that Olympic host cities even have 'better' infrastructure than their peer cities? Montreal's infrastructure isn't better than Toronto's. LA or Atlanta hardly have the best in the US. Barcelona isn't better than Madrid. What on Earth did London get out of the Olympics, a...

It's not really candidates' job to make detailed technical proposals. They're making promises not EAs. And, from my perspective, much of the amateur "detail obsession" on these forums (+places like SM's blog) tend to be highly selective and unsystematic. People tend to just bury their own...