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Kawhi must have been turned off by the lack of civility downtown. I can't say that I blame him.

BART is probably more comparable to SEPTA Regional Rail and Metra, and the service level is way higher than both. Even if you'd rather compare BART to L and SEPTA subway, it is a larger system than both, covering a much larger proportion of the metropolitan area. Grand River Transit provided...

"Millions every year" is not a lot by transit standards. And as you say, not all of those millions are from Toronto. GO should focus on routine trips. One person riding GO every day is the same as hundreds of people riding once a year. Difference with Barrie service is for the everyday riders...

The San Francisco urban area has the second highest transit ridership per capita in the US, behind only New York. Chicago and Philadelphia are about the same as Guelph. They aren't that great. I don't see what is the major difference between Kitchener-Waterloo, Mississauga, Brampton and...

Viva Orange travels around 8km to get from Keele to Yonge while the 77 travels around 6km. So Viva Orange buses would have to travel 33% faster to match the 77. Right now they travel 12% faster. To compare, Viva Purple buses travel 16% faster than than 1 Highway 7 buses, and 101 Dundas Express...

Highway 7 will have the rapidway, but not much else along it. Centre St, even without a rapidway, is still the faster, more direct route, half the distance from Bathurst to Yonge. At Keele, the 77 takes 21 minutes to travel to Yonge a time saving of 4 minutes compared to Viva Orange. Only...

What the VIVA system should be and should have been from the very beginning: Addressing the Steeles void to complete the grid, focusing on major corridors with longer and straighter routes without diversions onto side streets, and wider stop spacing, serving major stops only, no minor stops...

Mississauga has a few routes with 15 minute or better frequency from 6am all the way to 10pm or 11pm, but not midnight. The new 24 hour service is weekdays only, for the night shift workers, because Mississauga is mostly industrial, and of course it also has the airport. Mississauga is also...

I was cynical too, sorry about that. I couldn't help but be reminded how divided transit in that region is. It really is a cool map. When I made my fantasy map for GTA, it was one system for the whole region too. Political division is one of the flaws of GTA transit too. People should keep in...

I think he is referring to the development and size of the downtown(s). Downtown Kitchener isn't quite on the same level as downtown London.

York Region spends $137 million annually to subsidize YRT operations. Nassau County spends 1.9 million annually to subsidize NICE operations. $137 million vs. 1.9 million. York Region and Mississauga recently spent hundreds of millions on a busway and a subway to Toronto. GO also gives a major...

NYC's suburbs do everything they can to keep certain people out, including underfunding their bus services and overpricing their train services, trying to maintain a two-tier bus and train system, each with separate fares and schedules, so they definitely will not want any of NYC's subways...

Thanks, Goldie. I first heard the term "snout house" in a course about city planning years ago. I've seen it in news articles and there is even a Wikipedia page about it so apparently it is a common term. I got the idea for these photos from the work of Tom Wik. I figured that even if I...

Waterloo probably did not build light rail just for the opening day anyways. 13,000 to 18,000 for first day would be fine. Even though the York U subway extension opened in 2017, the TTC subway ridership increased by 21% in Q1 2019 compared to Q1 2018, while the bus ridership decreased 14%...

And of course York and UofT have subways too. If Western would rather have a campus full of cars, just give it to them. They will beg for LRT soon enough.

BRT is just a waste of time for London. London is in the Snow Belt, and articulated buses can't operate in snow. They should have focused on LRT, and forget about Western. Take the buses out of there too if that's what they want. 8 buses per hour (4 buses per direction?). That's just funny.

The ridership of Phoenix isn't "a bit worse" than Las Vegas, it's a lot worse. Las Vegas has 66 million transit boardings annually and a population of 2.4 million while Phoenix has 71 million boardings and a population of 4.8 million. Las Vegas is one of the leaders in per capita transit...

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The ridership east of Hurontario is too high for BRT and too low for subway. LRT would be perfect, but I don't think there is much point building such a short LRT line either. Kipling to Hurontario is only 7km, and I don't think LRT is justified west of Hurontario. 7km line will have the same...

Subway should be built to Hurontario/Dundas to connect with the LRT and fulfill the redevelopment potential along the Dundas East corridor (so no subway along Milton corridor to interfere with GO Trains). Alternatively, LRT could be built and possibly interline with Hurontario to MCC. The idea...