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Yes it is sad they are cheaping out and I suspect it won't even be substantially cheaper considering the engineering design of the full build out would have continued to use common structural elements and systems throughout. The existing design is de-risked from a deliverability and design...

Most people that read this idea at first thought it was a hoax, fiction, or a joke. That is all that really needs to be said about the idea. What is the use case where "massive tunnel with personal vehicles" comes out on top as the efficient and sustainable solution in a Toronto context where...

The published speed of the BHT Hovercraft is 45 knots (83km/h), so the 50km route would take about 36min, but then you aren't at Niagara Falls yet, nor downtown St Catharines, so there would be time on top of that to get anywhere. Early arrival time plus trip time plus transfer time plus...

There needs to be expropriation when large public projects are build that require properties in a particular place in order to serve their intended purpose. Not having expropriation would lead to the public purse being extorted. The one hold out would end up getting way more than makes sense...

Are you sure? The last I heard it become EglintonTOday, which is a scaled down non-permanent version and of course painting lines on an existing street, not creating or moving any infrastructure, and not fully separating bikes from potential conflicts is cheaper than 150M. What makes the...

Meanwhile in Josh Marlow's own ward the city shows how great it is at delivering projects that were promised to residents a decade ago... Eglinton Connects. Eglinton landscaping including bike lanes. I wonder what the price would be to deliver that as planned and when we would see it.

This GO electrification and investments to remove TTC slow zones can't come soon enough. I went from Yonge & Eglinton to Glen Abbey Community Center last Sunday using transit and it took 1 hour and 40 minutes and I had almost not transfer time (rushed to the train, rushed to the bus), whereas...

Yes, tolls + off hours deliveries (lowered tolls) + faster public transit alternatives.

It is a possibility in that they have the rights to built it. I think the Twin Otter line has started but I haven't heard any news that DH have the stars aligned to restart Dash 8 400s. There is no doubt restarting that line in a completely new location and the fact that except for support...

Toronto Island Airport really isn't sustainable over the longer term. For the amount of land it currently sits on, it is probably already at maximum capacity and even now the volume of traffic isn't enough to pay for any real connection to public transit. As Porter expands and Billy Bishop...

It seems obvious to me that the costs would be the bridges and retaining walls. Yes, the city should get a break down to ensure that costs like the retaining walls are only billed to the city because it is directly attributable to the bike path and doesn't include the costs that would have...

I would imagine it is to make it a bit more obvious that that is not where pedestrians should stand. Diagonal lines tends to mean hazard. With the platform being concrete and the track bed being concrete they may have felt a few more additional visual queues might be beneficial. Hopefully...

The plan is that there will be a metro like service in the more urban areas of the GO network which means a combination of more stops and more frequency. I'm sure on the Lakeshore line there will be services that bypass many of the stations between Oakville and Downtown once the service is...

Why do I feel like Roadrunner would be able to get to the subway station but the Coyote (and the rest of us) would get injured? (PS: Wayfinding standard says subway icon, not TTC logo :) )

How can it not be possible on the Yonge North extension at this point? The tunnel contract hasn't been signed yet has it? Until the TBM passes where a station might be, or is on a trajectory with too high a slope where a station might be, it seems to me putting in a wall for the TBM to pass...

How is Metrolinx pissing away money by telling a contractor to fix their stuff or they don't get paid what was agreed to?

So you also see these routes as no more important to a bus? Yes, they have replacement buses when the subway is shut down too. The point is that it we don't give priority to the streetcar or during construction don't seek ways to keep the streetcar running, we shouldn't get streetcars.

I never noticed that bump out on the Gardiner at exhibition before. Was there originally a bus stop and stairs here? I wonder why this exists here and only here.

The rule no longer exists and many interstates and tollways now connect, but Breezewood remains unavoidable because the economic interests of the community prevent changes that would improve the journey for many. Sault Ste Marie is the reason a better route does not exist.

The inspiration was actually Europe where in France and the UK blue signs denote the most important routes, green the next level down, and white the local routes and destinations. The freeway symbol used in the sign is the international symbol not seen in the US, and the red crown was...