Recent content by lead82

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.

Putting aside the idiocy of erasing history with renaming stations, what I don’t understand is why TMU is just listed as the abbreviation but VMC is listed fully as Vaughan Metropolitan Centre on the map and station name. Surely if we are going to rename a central station with such high usage we...

Having riding Line 6 today, my ride averaged about 12.4km/hr - 50mins to ride each way on a 10.3km route. Not vastly different from Spadina.

Never. LA county is bigger population than all of Ontario. Toronto will Never get there as we don’t have the ECONOMY of LA to support such massive growth.

This will be a landmark building for the area. I just wish they used different colour for the exterior cladding. The blue/grey is so bland. It seems like the default colours for this city and no one dares to go bold with anything else, except maybe white or black. Where are the greens, the reds...

I took the family there yesterday. The air show was great, especially the Snowbirds. The rides were meh and the line ups were way too long and the price of rides and admission and food was extortionate. Everything was like $17-20! Only pizza was still ok at $7/slice. Water or pop was $5. The...

It still lower for now but because the city has not made this permanent with beautification and the investments needed there is a huge risk this can be easily undone with a stroke of a pen.

This can be fully declared a failure. Mark my words - Toronto council will return King to its former glory - to be fully jammed like all other streets. Might as well remove the jersey barriers and the confusing mandatory right turns as no one follows them anymore especially with all the downtown...

Toronto is run like a small town. It’s an overgrown small town with myopic council and powers that simply don’t care to invest in such things. The public doesn’t care and we have bigger economic and social issues to deal with than build fancy stadiums. The Skydome would have been a better...