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And the level of carbon tax required is too high to be politically palatable at first blush, which is why as the price increases over time, it will drive you to reduce your carbon footprint (given that you were on the low end already)

Re: Carbon Tax - that is in fact how it is supposed to work. You're incentivized to reduce your carbon footprint, so the less carbon you emit, the more you'll get back.

Current plans are to have the busway remain after the opening of SSE.

The drivers will in fact notice... worsening congestion. Because either the remaining cyclists will take up a lane, creating unsafe and regular merging conditions, or they will drive.

What makes you state that there is no plan?

This is definitely a bit of a different comparison than the Scarborough Subway debate. People are talking about physical safety here, and risk of injury and fatality. That's a completely different "deserve" than deciding on two modes of transit that would offer near equal physical safety benefits...

Cycle lane standards have been constantly evolving and the nature of projects taking place at different times is the reason why designs typically reflect different standards. I would say that traffic impact studies would be dubious in this case because the act as written comes purely from...

I think the common theme here is that this area is heavily trafficked by pedestrians and should be designed in a way that makes it conducive for the existing pedestrians as well as future pedestrians to come.

Well, leaving municipal decisions to municipalities seems a general confirmation that she wouldn't want to waste the minister's resources on every single bike lane project.

I think so far only the Greens have said something about it? Unfortunately, I think this is just one of those things that you might want to avoid talking about because it's exactly one of those populist policies that are actually popular but counterproductive. Maybe if it is framed as...

This is definitely more confusing than it needs to be, hopefully once highway speed limits are raised to the design speed, this can be revisited as 20/30 over on all highways.

Studies have consistently shown (backed by theory and empirical evidence) that general purpose lanes are the least efficient form of road capacity, it is important to note that you are in fact adding road capacity when you take away lanes. Land use and development patterns, as well as more of a...

That's the point that I don't think you're understanding, there is fundamentally no more space for supply side capacity issues. That's before you consider the social and environmental cost of driving. Unless you want all roads and no buildings. So the issues that we are currently focused on is...

Ford government has been internally considering a weird ideological legislation: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-government-bike-lanes-1.7328878 Ontario eyes barring new bike lanes where car lanes would be cut

What do you mean when you say that they won't work in the long-run, if anything I would argue that they work in the long-run but is politically unpopular in the short-run.

The arguments against Yonge North were that it would overload Bloor-Yonge and required the relief line/Ontario Line to open it. Relief line must open before Yonge North subway extension, Metrolinx says Once the subways program was taken over by the province, they used the same thought process...

WiFi onboard trains solves the issue of in-station and in tunnel WiFi, so it makes a lot more sense. But should definitely be paired with in-station WiFi that is more reliable. It is intentionally designed to be phased so as not to overload the system, same with Yonge North

Ontario Line will have washrooms at interchange stations where space permits: Exhibition, Osgoode, (likely East Harbour (at least for GO)), Pape, Science Centre.

The curves have been optimized, and no where on that line will curves be as sharp as on Line 1. Minimal impacts to speed are expected, as they will spend most of their time accelerating and decelerating between the stations. Lower speeds will minimize impacts to maintenance, the challenges on...

WiFi is a mandatory contractual component of the Ontario Line, and it will not be operated by TTC, so TTC's decision would not impact it.