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You know as well as anyone else that you're not alone in that sentiment.

There is also a huge diff between moving people around and moving people around efficiently. Which I have been trying to say from when you said, oh Toronto is fine its system carries a lot of people and yet everyone in this forum says that we need to do this we need to build that. The DRL is not...

So what if you went to those places. I went there too, and rode those forms of transit .I don't think you can compare the "giants" (namely Hong Kong,Tokyo,Paris,Shanghai,Seoul) in transit to Toronto because after going to those places, I end up finding Toronto lacking in both fronts of...

well these developers tend to build commuter metro, commuter rail, or s-bahn-like lines which has a significantly lower cost per/km to construct. Coupled with the increase in land value and guaranteed ridership it would not be surprising if they managed to fund the construction of the whole line...

It would be better to route them to martin grove because they can use the Eglington semi-highway though the interchange. Plus Martin Grove has lots of terminal space via the Richview ROW. If we used dixion/ 27 station as the terminal buses will have to navigate the interchange instead of plowing...

yah, wouldn't the elevated option provide both a pleasant riding experience and higher speeds. oh, wait if forgot.... NIMBYs...

yes I know and that is why New York has better transit because they managed replace most of the tram network with heavy rail and most of the heavy rail lines still managed exist as we see now.

well the problem is that the politicians make it appear that there isn't.

I never said there is a need for highways downtown. The fact that the TTC carries a lot of people doesn't mean anything. The Beijing Subway is the fifth busiest in the world yet if you went there good transit is the last thing you would think of. That is the reason why they are simultaneously...

nothing good going for it? Its like the largest concentration of Asian malls in North America. if that is not anything good going for it i don't know what is. hong kong's MTR kwun tong line an example in china they tend to pick building Els in medians of expressways don't know if that counts.

yes i have been there quite a lot in fact, and yes some of it looks like farmland to me. Oh sorry, my bad, HYDRO R-O-W and FARMLAND, either way tunneling under it is a waste of money...

what do you mean own it or not? The TTC is not buying anything, its just selling the rights over what it already has. Air and a blue sky will not give you money.

No i am saying, that Toronto transit system FAILS to serve the needs of the city. So what if the carries so and so amount of people it still FAILS to serve the needs of our city. Also its expressway network FAILS to serve the city's traffic and it FAILS to be effective, should I go on? I used...

say what you want about air rights but I personally think selling them is a great idea. Sure it is not a lot of money to be made but it is certainly better than getting nothing. Plus, they are paying you to put a trip generator on the roof of your subway station. i think it is a win-win.

well, also look at the Vaughan extension the whole thing is underground. Even though passed Steeles is farmland. the SLRT extension really should be elevated but NIMBY's always manages to rear its ugly head in. Even if transit expansion is not driven by politics. it would still be by NIMBYism...

many things regressed in north america because of the car. LA used to have one of the largest electric interurban streetcar network in the world, look what it is now? the only city that survived the tram shut down is Toronto and a handful of other systems. On the other hand some cities upgraded...

no, not really I remember one time in Hong Kong someone got run over by a an SP 1900 series train and even though the train had a skirt all around the car body it didn't stop him from getting spliced in half by the wheel. Really it's just for looks. Anyways if we drop the skirt any lower the...

Um... there are so many things wrong with that statement i don't know where to start. OK, Your comparing to the US which is a joke when it comes to transit especially, heavy rail metro transit. apart from the 2 cities you have mentioned, all the other cities that have subways are a joke eg...

not really built around the world as you claim to be as you can see: in Japan, the land of monorails that work, the most recent one was built in naha in 2003, not really rapid in propagation. Delhi and Mumbai are building 10 times more kilometers in standard metro technology lines so which is...

well LA has lots of highways to move lots of people quickly and New York has lots of subways to move lots of people quickly but Toronto has neither. Plus, LACMATA has some new LRT/pre-metro lines that totally creams transit city, even if the provincial government did not cut funding to transit...