Recent content by lead82

He’s the best of the worst bunch of politicians. The other two major parties are much worse and would make this province even more bankrupt than it is was.

I find it crazy that we seem to be the only city dealing with such things. How do other cities handle this as they have teenagers too. Why can’t we just manually override ATC and move the train slowly into the station.

Not really as there isn’t much there between the stops on the western stretch.

Bingo. Toronto and the GTA should be maximizing its infrastructure- a few simple changes can make buses and streetcars and LRT so much faster - all operating issues. Our subway line like Line 1 and two need to fix the rail slow zone permanently and fix operational issues to deal with people...

You’re right. I accidentally counted Cedarvale to Yonge, which is more like 3.3km. 6.8mins from Bathurst to Yonge still seems long. Comparing to L2 doesn’t make sense as there are three stops on L2 for same distance and 2/3 are major interchange stops with typically longer dwell times then I...

These durations make no sense to me: Take for example the underground portion, a trip from say Forest Hill (Bathurst) to Eglinton (Yonge) is 2.2km bit according to this chart it will take 540 seconds, that’s 9 mins to travel that distance. That is insanely slow. That distance with the two in...

As compared to what other medium sized city? Decent to me means it has offices and shops and hotels and amenities walking distance from the train station. There are holes with massive parking lots but it has the possibility to grow denser and improve.

London has a decent downtown and Western university. They also have the Factory as a new attraction for kids and adults. Not much else to do there. Windsor would be another possibility as it’s across from Detroit and has a casino and a kids water park. Via is a bit far from the core so you’d...

I think the regulations are too in favour for realtors. Their pricing model needs to change to be more like lawyers - they should charge by the service provided and not a percentage of the sale price. It is not much more to sell a $1.5M house as a $2M. Why should the realtors get more? This is...

Both would be useful measures. On St Clair I can easily see 5-8 stops that can be easily removed, especially around Bathurst/Vaughan/St. Clair West/Tweedsmuir. Just in that area having 4 stops in 500m is insane. Only one stop is needed at best - St Clair West, but I can see a second right at...

Spadina and St Clair are also not fine and insanely slow. Their only saving grace is that few ride it end to end. However the stop spacing in general in Toronto is way too close and that’s especially true on the streetcars. The easy fix is to remove all the non major stops to speed up the line...

It’s an embarrassment of a city of this size that we can’t as a TTC maintain 2 subway lines to normal operating speed. I can’t understand why the same piece of track keeps continuously getting slow orders. Is there something fundamentally wrong with the track that they can’t fix right the first...

Why does the media still think Tory will run next year? He’s past his best before date and unlikely to run given the previous embarrassing scandal with his EA. It would be interesting to see Chow v Bradford.

So how many train sets with ONR buy? If they only need one train to operate, I would imagine we bought like 2-3 sets from Siemens for spares and backups?

The fix is quite easy - no idling at stops for 2-3 mins for no reason and true signal priority meaning that. The train should never stop at a red light - that should be the goal but this is Toronto, so not holding my breath.