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Nothing that's sent in a Twitter reply means anything. The Twitter feed is run by random staff in the customer support office whose job is only to help customers. They're not sending suggestions from the tweeting public anywhere.

Sort of. Metrolinx is involved in the agreement to buy the fare gates, since Metrolinx (for the Eglinton LRT), the TTC and OC Transpo (for their new LRT) made agreements to buy them together. It's pretty much just off-the-shelf fare gates though, the same ones are used in some other transit...

They've gotten twice as many staff members for, in Joe Cressy's case, a ward barely any larger than his old one.

It's not the lack of sound that's stopping them. It's just not their job. This is no different than the LCBO theft news stories... unless it's explicitly your job to enforce these rules, you're not going to do anything other than say "please don't do this". They're not taking the risk of the...

On the TTC they already have unique sounds for each type of fare, other than low-income fares. But at the end of the day there's not much stopping people if their card makes the child sound. It isn't an operator or collector's job to do stop people who refuse to pay the right fare, so they're...

Where are these buses being tested out?

Build with fewer stops and people will nitpick that the stops are too far apart and there's no local service, or the local service is wasteful and inefficient (e.g. Yonge Street north of Sheppard, Sheppard between Yonge and Don Mills). That Eglinton East map is 22 stops over 14.5 kilometers...

I think the problem is having a map that's too crowded (and streetcars do overcrowd the map when all of them are included). At some point there needs to be a "is this rapid transit?" filter, and I think just the grade-separated streetcars and all-day express buses pass that test, especially...

I think it's less about fitting the new lines above the doors, and more about deciding what gets included and what doesn't. That was an easy decision when the system was fully grade-separated, but it's a lot harder when surface LRT and part-underground/part-surface LRT gets added to the system...

I'm not sure about Toronto, but ambulances and fire trucks have their own signal priority system in parts of York Region that keeps lights green or turns all lights red until they've gotten through.

The problem with these ultra-long nonstop flights is that they have an extremely high cost per passenger -- mainly the cost of flying with more fuel on board, and paying multiple flight crews because of how long the flight is. There needs to be demand from people who are willing to pay a steep...

There's no such thing as snow tires for buses in North America. Buses don't use the same kind of tires as the everyday car. Their regular tires have tread patterns that are designed to work with snow (which is only possible on the much larger and stronger bus tires), and when there's ice the...

That's great if you're going to the financial district, but tens of thousands of cars aren't. They're commuting from downtown to somewhere else, or they're commuting across downtown, using a freeway that keeps them off of city streets. That's the biggest negative impact of removing the Gardiner...

Has there ever been any serious consideration of splitting the Yonge-University Line in half, or splitting service in half during rush hour? It seems like it happens way too often that a problem happens on one side of the line, but it screws up the entire line (and as a result also screws up...

Most people are taking the fourteen-lane freeway that's half a mile away from the one that was torn down. We don't have one of those.

I'd really like to see where that figure is coming from. Back when the city studied the Gardiner East (since it was mentioned in the article), it said that there's ~45,000 cars driving into downtown in the morning peak hour (here's a link), which is 10,000 more than the number of people who bike...

I was replying to two separate things with one comment which was probably a mistake, so to clarify: Re: Premium Express buses, on YRT a bus's Presto reader is programmed to deduct the express bus fare on those routes, and you can choose between the regular monthly pass or the one that includes...

I'm not sure how multi-zone fares worked with regular buses. With Viva you'd press a button before tapping your card at the station to be charged for the extra fare zone. With express buses, the machine knows which route the bus is running and charges the extra fare. It doesn't matter. As long...

It is trivial. York Region has been doing it since they adopted Presto seven years ago.

The tunnels would have to be rebuilt. Right now the top two tracks turn south and the bottom two keep going straight.