Recent content by doady

Driveway paving guys came to my mom's house a couple years ago and she was excited and accepted the offer. Luckily, I was in the house and was able to tell her not to do it.

There was also the Umar Zameer thing - multiple officers colluding and lying to get innocent man convicted of murder.

No dedicated bus lanes needed anywhere in MCC. Just need to finish the Transitway, including a Hurontario Transitway station to connect with LRT and keep the LRT on Hurontario where it belongs. Too many buses on the road, they need to take them off the road, not build bus lanes. Grade-separated...

Dundas is a pale shadow of its former self. Now 15 minute Local service all day instead of 8-10 minutes. No more branch to bypass UTM. Riders of 45 Winston Churchill looking for an East-West Route to transfer to now forced into UTM, because 26 Burnhamthorpe does NOT GO WEST OF SOUTH COMMON...

Bail reform can't come soon enough.

I never said transit built for car owner can't appeal to current transit riders. Just saying the current transit riders should be priority. An agency should try to retain their current customers before trying to appeal to new customers. If people use transit for 4 years instead of 2 years...

ION in Waterloo Region seems to be doing quite well. *shrug*

It's funny how we are supposed to build transit to allow for a car-free lifestyle, but then we criticize transit systems that don't serve people who own cars, or we characterize high car ownership as the cause rather than as the symptom. The building of expensive transit projects to appeal to...

Yeah, artic actually have smaller turning radius than a regular bus. Front part around 32ft long, back part around 28 ft. So turning radius similar to a 32ft bus.

Well, if there is Regional Express, it would make sense to have Streetcar Express, right? :D I do think branding is something they will need to think more deeply about. "Light rail" is a technical term, like "heavy rail", and using it as the branding is just lazy. It's doesn't even make sense...

I always upload my maps as PDF because Illustrator CS2 is terrible at output to raster formats, and I've been trying figuring out how to generate PNG file that looks as sharp as it does as AI or PDF file in Illustrator or Reader. It took me a while I think I finally figured it out. Save as PDF...

You are questioning whether these corridors have the ridership to justify LRT, but also suggesting Toronto build subways everywhere like NYC and Tokyo? I think Wilson-Rexdale-Derry, Lawrence East, and Kingston-Highway 2 are good candidates for future light rail. In 905, there Queen in...

We are not talking about 36 Finch vs. BRT. We are talking about LRT vs. BRT. If LRT runs every 6 minutes, bus would need 2 minutes to match that. 36 Finch doesn't run 2 minutes, but you don't build BRT on Finch to match the ridership of the 36 Finch. You build BRT with the expectation that the...

Sounds like it is including routes like 7 and 39 at Renforth, and 110 at CCTT and Erin Mills as well. Even with those routes included, 4 million still very surprising considering 100/107/109 not fully returned to normal, and GO numbers not included either. If you look at stop ridership maps...

4 million is most likely the boardings for the entirety of 107 and 109, including on-street stops, rather than specific to boardings at the Transitway stations or CCTT.