Recent content by EYorker

The old Urban Affairs Library collection that was housed in the old Metro Hall have been migrated to the Toronto Reference Library branch. There is a huge collection of studies and such there to peruse as well. Of course that collection cannot be removed from the library, so plan to spend a day...

I would've never guessed a truck inspection station given how small the area is combined with very short acceleration/deceleration lanes. Were most or all of the inspection stations of that era really that small?

I noticed this odd bit on the QEW recently and got me wondering what the story might be here. There's a bit of a bump out on the Toronto bound QEW just east of Indian Rd. in Mississauga. S Sheridan Way also diverts around this bump out on the QEW. I was trying to figure out if there were ever...

I know this proposed road, and a number of others nearby are still part of the City of Toronto Official Plan. It doesn't seem like the city has any appetite to build many of these proposed streets. There was quite a lot of backlash from the residents of Rosedale fearing traffic infiltration from...

Was a lot of the time not spent doing asbestos abatement here? Doesn't excuse the amount of time that it has taken to get the paneling back up though. Need I remind about that abhorrent proposal from the Toronto Community Foundation back in the late 2000's that would have seen the station...

Took a drive along Eglinton between Pharmacy and Leslie this morning around 7:30 am. Not one train spotted on the line in this stretch.

They have only advanced work on five bridges within section 3. These bridges require urgent attention before the rest of the section commences construction in 2027...

TTC 3026 has not been re-gauged. It is currently sitting on a makeshift temporary panel track.

Fun fact, this is done intentionally. It keeps the streetcar from losing its ground. The overhead wire is the positive. One rail acts as the negative. And the other acts as a ground. Thus completing the circuit and allowing the streetcar to move under power. If the streetcar were to "lose its...

I always thought more of the complaints were about crowding out the riders further down the line, and is a concern I share. The ridership has clearly been there for a while now. The things that have always seem to have pushed a northern Yonge extension down the priority list were lack of...

This particular installation at Queen/Broadview was put in temporarily due to the King/Church closure. It did go through TEYCC first before being approved by City Council. Whether it remains temporary remains to be seen, but I'd like to see it become permanent.

The study is in progress as we speak. http://highway401milton.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/2030-23-00_H401Milton_PIC1_2025-05-28-1.pdf Unfortunately, I don't see this getting fixed any time soon. The soonest I could see shovels in the ground is 2027 if they can speed up the detailed design...

While I haven't seen any drawings for the area, the recent PIC #1 materials for that stretch seem to indicate it will ultimately be a 4+1 HOV configuration in each direction.

Just to add a bit more confusion here. The planning documents for "Sheppard West" actually had the station planned to be Sheppard West in the first place. Why it was changed to Downsview, I cannot recall. But it's funny how the station eventually took the name it was supposed to have in the...

Not to mention the hundreds of second hand American standard gauge PCC's that the TTC purchased and subsequently re-gauged.