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How exactly is a forum where people exchange opinions supposed to be representative of the opinions of a population of ~2 million people, as though those opinions were a monolith?

945: Because the 45 alone has appalling frequencies. 960: because at rush hour the 60 doesn't run west of Pioneer Village. Who cares if it's branded as the 60 or the 960? You would get the same service levels anyway, it's just what they're labelled as that's different.

Yes, because requiring someone to monitor a full 12 car train from the front of it would pose a safety risk. As well, how would the train crew, in a separate compartment from the passengers, be on hand to assist in an emergency?

As was to be expected!

You realize not every single thing on Facebook is made up, right? Facebook doesn't have an exclusive license to bullshit. You'll see as much of it on Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, and any other website you can name.

There is a post on the "I'm from SCARBOROUGH!" FB page claiming it will be at the end of the month. Fair to dismiss that as being fake news?

I think that, as long as people insist on turning the subway into a quasi-GO train, it's only reasonable to expect the reverse to be done as well. Personally, I have no idea why local transit can't serve a local function and regional transit a regional function, but at this point the lines are...

Having only ridden on it end to end once, I couldn't point out any locations on a map, but there were a number of places along the northern end where the train banks without slowing down from line speed at all - and line speed up there is fairly respectably high.

How do you know that, when the project is not yet built!?

As well, it is difficult to understand the logic of running multiple extras inbound on the Lakeshore lines, but only one outbound. Inbound the demand should be staggered, as not everyone is going to be leaving at the exact same time to get there, but the demand will be pretty uniform outbound...

You don't have to hope - the same cars as used on the Crosstown are in service on ION and they ride very well around the high speed curves. I assume it's to do with the track geometry.

I wasn't even a thought in the 80s 🤣 Today's society seems, in comparison with the 2000s and 2010s, to be incredibly explicit!

There are many words I could use to describe our society at present - but sexless??

Yes, because they built large ramps, ramps that take up more physical square footage than the platforms on the Crosstown do. Whether rightly or wrongly, this was not the path we decided to take here. I think you might have me confused with the people who chose the specifications for this...

Another great example to add to your list is how, as COVID progressively dragged on and the lockdowns and restrictions became harder and harder for people to handle psychologically, every time someone said so, they were piled on by people who said that our ancestors survived the world wars, the...

None of this is true. The low floor LRT was chosen because the high floor ones require much larger and more intrusive loading platforms, if you want to provide accessibility. Being situated higher up, you'd need longer platforms with ramps at shallow angles. Going low floor is cheaper and more...

I know, I'm talking about the last rule requiring the driver to wait until the next time the bus has stopped to close the window. For what possible reason should it remain open until then?

What is the point of this? I get the idea of stopping for crossings, but this seems really over the top.

It is difficult to imagine there is any paint scheme out there that is more generic than red + white or black. HSR's colour scheme isn't generic cause of the colours chosen, but because of its inept application of excessive empty white surface. If they had something like NYC's Cuomo buses (or...

It absolutely will not. The SRT wouldn't have been, either, had the system not been built as a stump line along a fairly dubious alignment using proprietary technology.