Recent content by MisterF

I don't think the T was ever meant to be a rapid transit designation since they use it for bus stops too. It could have been an effective rapid transit designation but they've diluted it to the point where it's meaningless. This doesn't replicate the Underground branding strategy. The fact that...

If capacity is a problem, the solution is to build more lines. Not to spend billions on shutting a line down for years to convert it to something else. There's a lot of relief built into the design of the Line 5. Lines that go directly downtown from Eglinton act as relief lines of sorts at four...

Mount St. Louis Moonstone added around 60 m of vertical using fill. So I'm sure it's technically possible to do the same at Le Massif. The question is why would they bother? Mount St. Louis is a small hill and the extra vertical makes a big difference in the experience of skiing there. That...

I think Alto just hasn't finalized all the details yet and a lot of members of the forum are overthinking it.

The canopy was always misguided. Seemingly a symptom of this city's odd compulsion to isolate public squares from surrounding streets instead of opening up to them. The whole Dundas and Victoria frontages need a complete rethink. And how Dundas Square (the street) hasn't been at least partially...

The Line 5 stations seem to be mercifully free of the TTC's incessant safety announcements. A nice break from "if you see something say something" every 30 seconds. On the downside, the trains themselves have too many announcements. Do we really need to be told to hold on while the train is...

Quote from the Line 5 thread Nice to see a Toronto transit diagram done properly. Hint hint, TTC. Minor criticism - the limited service GO lines like Richmond Hill should probably be shown as a separate category. Metrolinx has made diagrams that do this before.

Focusing on ongoing operating expenses seems like it's missing the big picture. I'm guessing revenues aren't included in that number? Thunder Bay residents benefit from the additional tax revenues and economic gains that new infrastructure generates. Besides, Toronto residents pay for all...

That seems unnecessary. The cost of a handful of grade separations for multi use trails hardly seems prohibitive. They're pretty common where trails cross highways and even city streets. The pedestrian bridge over the 401 in Pickering for example, and quite a few crossing of the 417 in Ottawa...

It's unfortunate that the TTC just refers to GO services at Kennedy and Mount Dennis as "GO". The reader can't tell which line serves those stations so its usefulness is limited at best. The new subway announcements are the same - "transfer to GO Transit". Well okay, but what GO transit? Which...

Let's hope you're right about 2029. I'm not sure I share your optimism. Incidentally, it's now been 25 years since the end of the Auto Pact. Time flies.

Another relatively new LRT is the Valley Line in Edmonton. It's 13.1 km long and if Google Maps travel times are to be believed, an average speed of just under 25 km/h. I haven't ridden it myself but as far as I can tell it's almost completely at grade and a lot less intrusive on the landscape...

In the other hand, it was a fully covered, mostly indoors connection to the transitway station. So the new LRT station is a downgrade in that sense.

Not to mention the loss of all those Ottawa passengers, who would no doubt vastly outnumber any Montreal passengers gained by marginally decreasing travel time.

The sooner the alignment is finalized and publicly known the sooner we can stop with all this Ottawa bypass talk. There's almost as much travel demand to Ottawa as there is to Montreal. Express trains will almost certainly serve Ottawa just as they serve Toronto and Montreal.