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I believe that similar to Eglinton the equipment is already there, they simply need to convince Toronto City Council to turn it on.

I think there's a difference between lines that have a ton of slowzones due to decades of decay and poor maintenance versus a BRAND NEW "Rapid" Transit Line. What part of this video is meant to be impressive exactly? A tram that barely reaches 55km/h in a section of road with barely any...

It's because the standard is bad, and Metrolinx has absolutely heard feedback supporting that conclusion. I'd frankly be more annoyed if there wasn't any sort of refinement because stubbornly sticking to a flawed standard is the worst thing they could do right now.

Pretty flawed idea. Circle Lines in general are kind of a difficult proposition since they tend to be annoying to operate (delays cascade and its difficult to introduce/remove trains from service). When combined with how long the line is, it would compound the issues.

Honestly woodbine is the only westward extension that's truly necessary. The only case for a Line 6 extension to Pearson I could see is if in some distant future (Alto Maybe?) a proper regional rail facility is built at Pearson to allow for through running trains, allowing for the repurposing of...

Don't forget a massive Hospital.

Unfortunately that's no longer possible due to modern fire codes. Even in Montreal, the REM built a dividing wall in the Mont Royal Tunnel where it previously didn't have one due to said fire codes.

Except all but 2 MR-90s have already been scrapped. This is before mentioning that those trains were basically on their last legs and were suffering from massive reliability problems (particularly during the winter). They wouldn't last that long in Philly (although I think SEPTA is desperate for...

If its any sort of visual indicator/guide, assuming they're using a standard guardrail height of around 1.0m above the walkway, given that TRs are around 3.3m, you can imagine 3 or 3.5 of those guardrails placed horizontally being roughly the width of a TR. All of a sudden this tunnel begins to...

A piece of advice: only use Los Angeles as an example if you're showcasing what NOT to do. Or most US cities for that matter.

In my head I lumped that 2900 as being a per hour figure and for that I was wrong, I apologize. These numbers do effectively predict a 200% ridership bump. However, I do think that's still a massive underestimate. Richmond Hill as it stands gets a fairly raw deal since for much of its catchment...

I want to point out how seemingly absurd these numbers are. Richmond Hill in particular raises a massive eyebrow. At 2500 peak riders (so ~5000 round trip) that's less riders than what the Line had back in 2019, and this is a 2051 forecast under the assumption that the line is electrified, the...

I don't think Doug views this as an exclusive OR.

There's a lot of eyebrow raisers with that first map that I haven't seen people bring up in this thread. 1) It looks like electrification to Bramalea is dead, and the only thing that will be electrified is the UP Express. I know they had issues with getting electrification to Bramalea and were...

Is that 3rd render an image of High Tech or Bridge Centre? If its the former then that's not the station that will be under the 407.

And is Metro not short for Metropolitan (Railway)?

In other words in the event that it turns out they decide to make it fully underground, you agree its not because Ford came in and said that "transit users are rats that need to stay underground", right?

Which is why he brought parts of the YNSE and OL to the surface, and why Sheppard is being studied with options for elevated segments...

You are correct, I accidentally mixed up the two. Which if I recall correctly was the arrangement prior to the downloads and today with continuing link agreements.

I'd honestly take that over this, since at least that's a new alignment that would speed up new trips rather than just "add more lanes" to existing corridor (not to say this is a good idea, but I think it would be preferable). That being said, how many roadway projects are there that would both...