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So, it looks like giving up 30 to 50 years of a revenue stream and a lot of generous assumptions leads to the private sector building the extension:http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/subway-adviser-raises-touchy-subject-of-road-tolls/article2323485/. And here's the Sun's...

perhaps sixrings is referring to something along the lines of battered spouse syndrome where the abuse leads to this place of codependency/rationalisation/acceptance/fear/mess. i'm sure a msw can put it more eloquently than me. but yea, it sounded like domestic abuse could be justified - might...

nothing is coming back from the dead without a majority of council being persuaded (read: phone calls from resident constituents) to bring it back, and opposition pressure on the mcguinty government. right now, locally, there are too many favours to be had and careers to be made by plugging into...

Not really, just wanted an excuse to post this: "10. Kijong-Dong is a city built in the 1950s by Kim's father, set on the border as an example to South Korea of their superiority. No one lives there, but every effort was made to make it function like an actual city. The buildings have no...

Are you seriously insinuating that TTC plans and studies are driven by a desire to increase the size of the TTC's work force? Could the disinclination towards investing in subways be driven in small part by the fact that subways require much higher population/job densities (250+ persons/hectare)...

looks like the bills just won't stop http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/12/13/transit-city-cancellation-cost_n_1147002.html?ref=canada So 65m, Dr. Chong's new 15m, the 70% (let's be optimistic) of the Sheppard expansion cost, the increased cost from tunneling under the Don which likely...

I wonder if Dr. Chong's report will call for densities to be pushed to the 200+ persons (or jobs) per hectare benchmark during operating hours to make the Molar extension financially viable . . .. Just because roads are full up during peak travel times doesn't mean there's enough demand to make...

Given commute times in Toronto, I'd rather people be allowed to eat/drink on the TTC. For me, $1000 littering fines on the TTC and enforcement by TTC constables would be preferable. It takes me forever to get places on TTC, so I'd like to be able to eat/drink on it, especially given that I do...

Why? Gravy is a base 10 value. I wish it were a base 2 value.

http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/12/06/crosstown-transit-line-delayed-until-2022-as-scarborough-rt-set-to-close-for-four-years-beginning-2015/ So, keeping with a rich tradition on this forum, given this article, should we wax nostalgic once more about Transit City?

Partisan rhetorical flourishes aside, I'd be interested to hear what everyone thinks past Mayors' policy and program missteps have been.

Palma, do you have a source for this? I'd be interested in reading it. I wonder if there was a subsidy from the Province/Feds back then as well helping underwrite that profit.

Do you have an image/link to this? Sounds interesting, but I can't quite visualise it.

maybe a different, productive tack in this thread - maybe people can list off pros and cons for the systems discussed: (1) flat fare - pros: easy to administer, does not force declining inner/suburbs to pay more for their lack of choice, pays for fixed infrastructure more effectively, diversity...

It might be constructive for some participants in this thread to take a read through of this report compiled for York Region: http://www.yorku.ca/yisp/publications/documents/Infrastructure_Analysis.pdf This report forms the foundation of the Human Services Planning/Making Ends Meet initiative...

Two questions: (1) Is it reasonable to hold the line on spending in a growing city below inflation/population growth? (2) How does operating cost not go up with increased infrastructure?

Looks like Dialysis is a form of gravy. Tasty, tasty renal failure gravy. Page 18.

could a mod change the title of this thread to Chief Planner Job Ad for Toronto - What would you like to see him/her propose to Council? I can't figure out how to change the thread title, lol.

"Map 1 illustrates the connectivity of the City of Toronto using a transit score developed by the Martin Prosperity Institute. The score uses data from the Toronto Transit Commission and combines the number of stops within 500m of the centroid of a Census block and how often a bus, subway, or...

where's inspector spacetime when you need him.