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That really doesn't have anything to do with the custom vehicles. From what we know Bombardier is having problems related to quality control, not anything related to the engineering of the vehicle to meet our specs. If you're just meaning that it'd be easier to have more companies bid on the...

It's worth pondering what it might cost both in $$ and disruption, but it's not a foregone conclusion that it's a better option to change the network. If it costs X dollars extra to get custom vehicles or 50X dollars to customize the network we darned well better be customizing the vehicles...

Interesting. Steve Munro had commented on his blog that he'd heard there was talk of opening the western and eastern extensions alongside the central portion of the line.

If I recall a 10 cent fare increase (or there about) would raise the $20 million for a 2 hour transfer based system. That indirectly charges quick shorter trips at a lower rate than longer trips for a marginal increase in fares and with a very simple system. There's no GO co-fare simply because...

It'd be nice if that was what was happening, but there's almost no chance that's going to be the result. If short trips are cheaper and long trips cost the same as they do today there'll be less money. That means a subsidy has to come from somewhere. I seriously doubt that'll happen. Some...

Really, I expect that it's people downtown that will end up with cheaper trips since it's much more likely that a given user's destination is close to home. Plus, it's not just downtown bound commuters that'll be paying more. Heck, it's further to go from Scarborough Town Centre to York U than...

I understand and don't dispute that the province can do that legally if they really wanted, but I don't think the province would override council directly (e.g. rewrite the city's budget after council's passed it). If you disagree with that, well, that'd be unprecedented as far as I know. If...

What business does Metrolinx have of telling Toronto how it's going to charge it's users when Queen's Park doesn't even contribute to operating costs directly? Sure, they can have a say with their lines (Crosstown, Finch, etc,) but Toronto decided it wanted a flat fare long ago and the city...

Yup, I've done it before with the Ministry of Natural Resources. In general I've found that the best way is to try to stay on the broad side, and then when you speak to the institution's Freedom of Information Co-ordinator, tell them more specifically what you're looking for. They'll often...

Re: Political interference, that's partly why I want to get documents dating back to 2013. I'm there must be communications regarding changing start dates and it'll be interested to see what names are on them and what the motivations were. The great thing with a Freedom of Info request is you...

I know at least the yard was about to be built and then council decided to scrap the Scarborough LRT. That meant the yard had to be redesigned to be smaller. Prior to that they'd intended to pre-build a portion of the Sheppard LRT so that they could test vehicles as they were received and so...

True. You make a good point.

Even then I'd argue that that doesn't represent the number of people who "hated Transit City". Think of it this way: imagine if someone offered you an LRT and you thought 'Great!'. Then they came along and asked you, okay, how about a subway? You like the existing ones right? Would you like a...

Support is support. It means that people liked the guy. Sure, you might argue that support might not translate into votes if David Miller theoretically ran again back in 2010, who knows, but I was responding to Burloak's post where he said "[Transit City] was so hated that it helped get Ford...

Who says people wouldn't have voted for Smitherman if he supported Transit City? The same for for Tory and Mitzi Hunter. By that way of thinking you could say that people who voted for John Tory didn't like Rob Ford's 'Subways Subways Subways' message and instead only want RER. You argue that...

Let's not rewrite history. Why were polls showing that David Miller would've easily won if he ran then? http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2010/08/26/rob_fords_not_leading_david_miller_is_outgoing_mayor_says.html

Chong hasn't been a councillor since the year 2000

It's only 6 minutes if you're taking the whole line. What % of people will be doing that? For others removing the midblock stops will add time. Let's look at a few examples...

"@CedarhurstBeach @Metrolinx @CrosstownTO For tracks, signals, maintenance, etc. Everything but the tunnels and the trains."

FYI: https://twitter.com/JohnLorinc/status/561301722199367680 #topoli #onpoli @Metrolinx confirms that today it received 2 bids for @CrosstownTO RFP, est. ~$4.5b. Largest infra project in TO history.