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Here was the claim I disputed: (and still do)

^Ah, but think of the weekday morning trains from Niagara Falls folks! For the People. (The numbers per coach are even lower than these buses) The 38 bus was excellent for getting north enough to cycle up Mount Hope Rd to the Caledon Trailway, and the 90 bus in from Newcastle after cycling from...

Even that is optimistic! (But you fully realize the engineering practicalities) http://www.metrolinx.com/en/docs/pdf/relief-line-epr/appendix/Appendix%202-3_Subway%20Design%20Standards%20and%20Construction%20Methods.pdf pg 3 And that's for an 'all in tunnel' design, not exposed to rain, snow...

The "Ontario Place" spiel is a fantasy. Some kind of link, seasonal most likely, will have to be built, but apart from the Ontario Line itself. LRT or streetcar would be perfect, and connect in at Exhibition and Dufferin, but alas...that's a dialect far beyond Fordism. "LRT" is very difficult...

A lot of commenters appear to be woefully unaware of the physical limitations of a system that "can handle more passengers than Line 1" in terms of the size of the carriages, length of carriages, and the minimum radius possible on a flat curve, let alone a compound one going into a tunnel. Even...

Both this and the "This is where" campaigns had Reddit strings. For the "You said it" ones, I often chuckle looking at the Twitter addies who the comment is ostensibly from. I'm not on Twitter (thank God) so maybe those addies are real, but it all smacks of some shallow PR firm making it up as...

They did, one that most people couldn't use until the train pulled into a station. I read reports of $800,000 for the app, but this states less: https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/transportation/2017/09/06/ttc-launches-anti-harassment-campaign-app.html The app's creators got sued in San Francisco...

As to rating which city spends the most on transit, according to Arcadis, Toronto is down the list for North American cities according to their last compilation. And: MTA capital spending plan may double to $60B, sources say How's Toronto doing?

Remember this? https://www.ttc.ca/News/2017/September/09_06_17NR_ThisIsWhere.jsp It got really out of hand, almost offensive in itself. It's now quietly disappeared. "This is where the bad man wore unmatched socks and hadn't brushed his teeth". One was about a man "leering". They must have...

One of which, surely, is the conundrum to meeting both provincial and federal flood protection for a portal unless it's behind the flood protection of the berm, which pushes it even further west from the Don if the latest plan to use the LSE track alignment is to be used. Napkins just don't seem...

It would be nice if the southern section of that line (run as a separate spur, often referred to by various wishful thinkers as a potential transit line from Guelph to Cambridge) down to Cambridge was also due for refurbishment as it's in even worse shape than what remains of the northern stub...

Deja Vu! You're the "AM" who posted the above comment at Steve Munro's blog! It raises a host more questions even than those you've posed. It's an absurdity as proposed.

It's been discussed at length in this string and others, and Steve Munro also discussed it at length. A poster from today's Ontario’s Transit Plans: Details Emerge in City Report [...] AM | June 4, 2019 at 3:07 pm Steve, thanks for this. You mentioned briefly the question of routing of the...

Used to be. Not the extensions though: https://www.greencaltrain.com/2018/12/caltrain-to-sacramento-bart-considering-standard-gauge-rail-for-2nd-bay-crossing-but-downtown-extension-on-hold-for-governance-review/ http://www.bayrailalliance.org/bart_extensions/

Ontario’s Transit Plans: Details Emerge in City Report by Steve I'll have quotes to discuss later. Absolutely. Standard gauge, and using the same overhead line electrification *physically* as GO. Electrically it can differ, as modern switching techniques are easy to do and readily available...

How ironic for "Mr Subways" to have discovered elevated track. Just like the SRT. Hypocrisy knows no bounds...

GO not affected, this is the north-south ex Guelph and Galt Railway now the Fergus sub for CN that crosses and intersects at Guelph Junction. More details here: https://www.guelphmercury.com/news-story/9405764-guelph-residents-angered-with-devastating-train-horns-overnight/ It intersects with...

It's a very fair question, and I think events will unfold over the course to the next federal election...and as critical I've been on the Libs with the SNC-Lavalin affair, very badly handled, and polls concur, someone in the PM's office just might have laid a brilliant trap that the OntCons are...

I have a confession, I made myself watch it. Wow...just wow. It's one thing to see idiots at work, it's another to watch ones who keep showing you how idiotic they are, as if you didn't realize the first time they opened their mouth(s). I do see an up-side to this! This 'media event' gave the...

It's just bizarre, viewed from any and all angles. And somehow the napkin boys demand to be taken seriously. Province says it wants federal money for the Ontario Line. Ottawa says it needs more answers Btw: I tried watching the YouTube vid of that announcement. I could take only the first five...