Recent content by MrGoose

No ring lines in Toronto please.

https://altotrain.ca/en/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/HFR.png This image on their site still says HFR in the url lol

What’s the third new line? Bolton Midtown ???

I could stop posting about the Crosstown, but when people start riding it, they too will start complaining about it. You can try to ignore this problem, but the consequences will be reduced ridership, cramped trains and constant operational snafus. nothing is hyperbole. Most of the riders who...

The glaring inefficiencies, baffling design choices, the juxtaposition of the elevated Ontario Line, and terrible experience that riders cannot help but notice, are the necromancers that will keep resurrecting this dead horse, so that we can flog it to death once more. The first time riders can...

No good things allowed. Only Starbucks, Tim Hortons and Shoppers.

How does 1.7B not get you 5 surface transit stations ....

Wrong reasons leading to the right outcome

Except that the 4 car Sheppard train carries 948 people at crush load and 3 crosstown cars carry 750 people at crush load. So trams that are longer to carry the same number of people as a subway car

Penny wise and pound foolish because as has been discussed to death already, low floor means less capacity per dollar spent. Yea we spent an extra 3B$ on the underground stations to make them longer to accomodate the longer trams, but at least we saved 10M$ on the concrete used for the outdoor...

How many properties are exempt from the City Wide Zoning bylaw ?

Are we really doing elimination of parking minimums on a case-by-case basis? That would be really disappointing.

It's 40,000km of high speed rail in China now

Is this a cracked foundation slab under the new station or the old yonge-line station?

Where did you hear this rumor from? I feel like this is not true, and might just be impossible to do and be cheaper than buying new cars.