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I don't understand, why can't it just go next to Hanlon Pkwy, or next to Guelph Jct, or next to the Costco or something? Why did they have to choose the park in the first place? And why do they put everything on hold? Seems a bit ridiculous...

No. This is the plan: From TTC 5-year service plan: http://ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commission_reports_and_information/Commission_meetings/2019/December_12/Reports/Attachment%201%20TTC_5_year_SP_web_accessible_R3.pdf

First of all I'd just like to clarify that I was talking about hypothetical light metro stop spacing, not surface LRT stop spacing. For surface LRT, Ionview and Pharmacy are sort of justifiable, but Hakimi-Lebovic, definitely not (but either way, surface LRT is the wrong technology choice for...

Just to note, I was talking about the airport branch specifically. That is, the section past Renforth. I said in a post earlier that the transitway was the main reason grade separation is important, and I fully agree that many people will be transferring onto the transitway. And yes, I do know...

How much more expensive though? There are places where elevated metro on Eglinton would save money: - Smaller tunnel bore because no catenary. - Deleting useless stops like Aga Khan, Pharmacy, Hakimi Lebovic, Ionview. - No need for complete road reconstruction on Eg East. - Moving Science Centre...

It won't, AODA requires TTC to have every station accessible by 2025. Rosedale is scheduled to be completed by 2024. Warden and Islington are scheduled to be the last stations to be completed in 2025 (due to their crappy bus terminal designs that would require a rebuild)...

Fully agree on the first point, I wasn't trying to argue that Eglinton should be at grade, just that at grade airport links do exist. Really the only case where at grade median LRT is a good idea is when we basically are just trying to get a bus route but higher capacity, like Finch. Otherwise...

Maybe you should realize that Amsterdam's contiguous urban area is like 15km across, maybe 25km if you use the most extreme measurement possible. Toronto's continuous urban area is at least 30 km across no matter how you measure, and the only reason some measurements are only 30km is because of...

I would go into the fact that you continue to ignore jelbana's other examples, and how Chinese company =/= inexpensive project. But honestly, that's besides the point. Europe (excluding UK) does full blown 100% underground metro for $100-250M/km. Spain does it for under $100M/km. The fact that...

How is that not fair? Who cares what company is building it, what matters is what got built. Besides, you didn't even bother saying anything about any of the other examples. Even if you exclude Tel Aviv, 75% of the examples are still cheaper than ECLRT. Canada, US, and UK pretty much have the...

Think Northern Light just forgot to post a screenshot:

The slowest and most cumbersome part of train’s journey is the part where it turns around at the end. This is the main limiting factor on frequency for many point-to-point lines. If the line is a circle, trains never need to turn around. Why do you think some metro systems used to build loops at...

This is from Viva's 2005 launch video: In the video they also showed a picture of one of the old Viva bus shelters and called it "a transit stop that feels like a spaceport" and called a Viva bus "the transit vehicle of the future" with "seats so comfy they mess with your head" Yeah...

I mean, the lanes are also too wide. Dunbloor and Dundas both have 3.5m lanes, and almost all other lanes are 3.3m lanes. 3.5m lanes should not exist, period, curb lanes should be 3.3m max, and other travel lanes should be 3.0-3.2m. Narrowing all the lanes by 10-20cm each could have easily...

Completely agree. What was the Newmarket section even for? Politicians’ egos? Trying to persuade Newmarket politicians into supporting the plan? I’m actually serious, does anyone know why it got built, and why it was built so early (and why Yonge St south, the most important and useful section...

MSF construction earlier this week

Tolls will reduce congestion though. Trucking companies will save some money vs the status quo because of faster trips on a tolled 401. We could even make tolls lower for trucks to incentivize them to stay on the highway. If tolls for trucks are low, the economics might work out such that it is...

IIRC Both the Malton branches and the TTC routes into Thornhill and Markham are contracted to TTC by YRT and Miway, respectively. If the sections outside Toronto were operated as separate routes there would be unnecessary linear transfers and overall worse connectivity, especially because the...

When you consider that all core EV tech is decreasing in cost rapidly, very soon you will be talking about $30K vehicles, not $50K. And one must also consider the significantly lower operating costs. I don't think the point about how apartment dwellers drive less and in urban areas is really...

Thanks! I was lucky and didn’t have to wait too long haha. Plus the headways on Yonge south of Bernard are decent. That said the headways north of Bernard are quite atrocious, and none of the other Viva routes are good either (especially Viva orange which is something like twice an hour off...