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They look great, but trying to add neighbourhood divisions within Old Toronto is hopeless -- people will never agree, and there are certainly big problems with the ones you've chosen, e.g. Spadina and St. George are not in Yorkville, Jane is not in Etobicoke but it's not in High Park either...

Nothing uniquely Toronto about it, though. Lots of English placenames have the "-bourn(e)" element (which originally meant 'brook') and it's quite often pronounced like "burn". Melbourne in Australia and Holborn in London are two prominent examples. I associate the "Sher-Born" pronunciation...

No, they're tearing it up to replace the intersection, like they've been doing for all the intersections on Spadina over the past couple years. It needs to be done regardless of what type of streetcars are running over it.

But even after the switch, the Blue Line continues to run as grade-separated heavy rail. CDL.TO's point about Amsterdam is that it also switches to a median LRT line, which is what some have said is impossible.

I think that's highly unlikely. The Yonge and Bloor subways were essentially "upgrades" of the existing streetcar routes in that they replaced long stretches of the routes. The DRL East -- if it even runs under King -- would duplicate only a small stretch of the King route before diverging...

Nice map, but where is it "officially on the books" that the King streetcar will be removed from King East and Broadview?

I don't think you can conclude much from one ride, as different operators have different driving styles (not to mention getting used to the new cars). On the old cars, some operators fly around curves and others crawl. After 4 years of daily 510 riding I got to know who the slowpokes were.

Names for particular tunnels aside, though, the subway routes in NYC do have names as well, in addition to their number/letter. 3 - 7th Avenue Express A - 8th Avenue Express G - Brooklyn-Queens Crosstown Z - Nassau Street Express etc. The number/letter is what people usually use, but the names...

So occasionally we have to tolerate a slightly abstract name like the "Spadina subway" (really Spadina/Allen/whatever) or the "Queen streetcar" (really Queen/Lake Shore) or the "Spadina streetcar" (really Spadina/Queen's Quay), in which the name refers to the street that the core of the line...

I expect they're keeping the line names, at least for now, because that's how the vast majority of people know and refer to the lines. I fail to see how this is "holding them back". There's nothing inherently better about line numbers. Some cities use names, some use letters/numbers, some use...

? He died 13 years ago...

Am I missing something? Aren't all turns prohibited at Yonge & Dundas? What's the point of stopping all the pedestrians from crossing on a green if all the cars are going straight through anyway?

Do you have a proposal for where the subway should have gone, instead of Yonge & Lawrence and Yonge & York Mills? Everything around there is low-density residential, for kilometres.

Will a couple of these stuck on the tracks really cause any more traffic chaos than a couple of ALRVs stuck on the tracks?

Steve Munro summarized Ford's transit platform here. It consisted of Sheppard subway from Downsview to STC and B-D extension to STC. Ford didn't want to build anything on Eglinton at all. It was only after he got elected that he was convinced to embrace an all-underground Eglinton LRT.

There was recently a discussion in the comments on Steve Munro's site about how ridership of the downtown branch of the Pape bus has gone up significantly since it's been moved from Union to King, because now people can go to King and know that they have the option of two eastbound routes (the...

Do you have a source for that? Actually, his election platform was to funnel all the $$ to Sheppard and just have express buses on Eglinton. He only agreed to anything at all for Eglinton through the begging of the province/Metrolinx.

I agree, of course, that it will get more use once the games are finished, but it's quite the exaggeration to say that no one would use it before. The Distillery is a significant attraction.

Why not? It goes directly to the Distillery.

On Tramlink in London you have to request stops. If nobody pushes the button and nobody's on the platform, it doesn't stop. Same with the Sheffield Supertram, apparently. Of course, on a well-used system with well-spaced stops, this won't happen very often. Still, at way-off-peak times, it...