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Joining two regional airports sounds like the ideal test bed for hyperloop technology. Short, point-to-point, stick it underground or along a utility corridor, or both.

Made it myself.

Does this about capture most of them? Hyperloop from Pickering to Pearson airport might be a bit of a stretch.

Hate to be a downer, but standard gauge for DRL south is a non-starter. DRL St. Andrew-Pape will be using TTC gauge, therefore anything north will have to use TTC gauge, so you can't share track in the Richmond Hill corrdior...you'd have to convert it all to TTC gauge.

Agree its not perfect, but its the simplest way to compare projects apples-to-apples...what you're interested in is a relative comparison of some kind. Yes, makes sense. So subway = 3.35B+, LRT= 1.48*(1.02^8) = 1.86. So the difference is $1.8B for the transfer, or $30,000 per daily rider for...

So that means we should pay $83,000 per daily rider to make a transfer easier, rather than redeploy that money on projects that will bring new transit? For example, Eglinton West LRT gives 26k people new transit for $90k per daily rider, with $1.2B left over.

LRT still connects you to it, I don't understand.

Multi-step point/question: - the main argument for the subway extension over LRT is that people shouldn't be forced to make a long, multi-level transfer from LRT to the subway at Kennedy - the reason people would want to make that transfer is that people are trying to get downtown - by far the...

And Hillcrest has multiple office buildings in addition to its maintenance shops.

As a management consultant: efficiencies either come from getting more done with existing time & resources (reducing backlog, only if you reallocate the time saved from one task to do on another); or with a finite amount to get done, do it with less. The first doesn't save money per se (so...

Sounds like Ford just promised to cut the gas tax by 10 cents. I think its generally a flow through to municipalities, so he's essentially playing to his base of cutting taxes, not hitting provincial jobs, but kneecapping the municipalities that use the funding for transit. I hope someone adds...

Absolutely, just means going 5 mins one way, to go back 5 mins the way you came, plus transfer time. Minor complaint to be sure.

As a Weston resident, I think its quite reasonable that they close the Weston UPX when both RER is running at 15 mins and they want to add an UPX stop at Mount Dennis. Will suck for getting to the airport, but I and most others predominantly head downtown...so we shouldn't care if its branded...

If the TTC is indeed looking at the old Obico yard for a new rail yard as is rumored on this forum, I imagine any extension would likely turn south and go through the yard before turning towards Sherway, much like Line 1 travels along the side of Wilson Yard as a part of the extension to...

Realistically, a viaduct it would have to be tunnelled under Dixon east of Islington where the ROW narrows and you have single-family homes on the street. If I were to map this out, I'd have a tunnel under Dixon east that then turns up under the hydro corridor in the vicinity of Martin Grove...

They already have approval in the capital budget for 3 of 4 replacement vessels. The boats date 1930s to 1962. They were all purchased by TTC, when TTC ran the ferries. Politically, there will never be a physical link.

It's in the works, but they're doing some extra due diligence on the designs of the new vessels.

There's now an office proposal for that site: http://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/57-wade

It's just the first time I've heard Metrolinx distinguish it as essentially its own service, not more trains on existing routes. For awhile they were careful to say their impression was just more trains on existing routes.

Another thing he appeared to note at the luncheon, and someone correct me if I misinterpreted his words, is that perhaps 1/2 to 2/3 of Kitchener line and Stoufville line trains would become express after Bramalea and Unionville respectively, and that Bramelea-Unionville would essentially run as...