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It's pretty obvious the GTA needs another true international airport, whether it's building out YHM or building one from scratch at Pickering.

That heritage building on stilts looks like it could collapse at any minute.

You're right about that. Most people's impression of GO is thundering 12 car diesel trains running a few times a day at rush hour. It's going to take a lot of work to change that perception.

I'd keep Gerrard for the potential connection to the 506 streetcar and the sheer distance between Leslieville and Pape.

I'm wary of derailing this thread into a political grudge match, and they've given us plenty of other reasons to mistrust them, but have the Trudeau Liberals actually gone back on any promised transit funding since they took power? I can't think of any cancelled projects but maybe I'm missing...

Haha fair enough. I've come around on LRT @ YHM - a direct connection to Hamilton GO Centre and/or West Harbour in tandem with AD2W service on the Lakeshore West line would be a valid interim ground transit solution

I'm in the "let's use/expand what we have before building something from scratch" camp so I support the build out of Hamilton International before starting on Pickering if needed. But the fact remains that YHM has some legitimate location and ground transportation challenges that I feel people...

Not a pre-requisite in North America I agree, but if YHM is to complement/compete with Pearson as a true second international airport for the GTA it's going to have to offer a more effective ground transportation method than a bus. People aren't sitting in 1.5 hours of rush hour traffic to get...

Unless a verrry long spur is constructed off of the existing CN mainline through the Dundas Valley, I don't see any realistic way of building passenger rail access to the Hamilton Airport. Unless the idea is to have air passengers take a local LRT down a hypothetical Upper James St. line to...

I expect to see the Billy Bishop runway extension talk reopened if the Conservatives win in October.

At this rate they';ll be just about done building Phase 2 by the time Phase 1 is ready to open.

Toronto: where elevated trains are the devil's spawn, but don't you even think about touching our elevated highways.

Lakeshore at rush hour is already a traffic sewer with hundreds of backed up cars trying to squeeze onto the narrow, limited Gardiner on ramps.I actually think Lakeshore would flow better without the 3-4 lanes of commuters merging into one at Jarvis, York and Spadina.

That massive podium in the Distillery proposal should help hide a big chunk of the Gardiner, at least from the north.

I recently visited Chicago for the first time. After years of hearing about how that city is some sort of mecca of urban waterfront design that puts Toronto to shame, I was surprised to discover that they have their own downtown traffic choked barrier highway cutting off pedestrian access to the...

If the Pickering Airport goes ahead, either the tolls on the 407 will need to be eliminated east of the DVP, or another 412 style spur highway (but free) would need to be constructed off of the 401. Not sure which one is more likely.

It's been a few years since I visited, but I seem to remember Tube trains sharing track with commuter/regional trains at several points in London. Wonder if something similar is planned for the Ontario Line/GO rail corridor integration, or if the OL will have it's own elevated guideway next to...

I wish they'd considering extending the line westward from Ontario Place to Humber Bay. Would provide much faster downtown service than the Waterfront LRT which I've given up hope on ever seeing in my lifetime.

I know there are a lot of sound arguments for not allowing jets at Billy Bishop, but seems like Toronto sure could use that extra capacity right about now.

Wow, the surface rail section of the Crosstown actually exists! I was beginning to think it was a myth..