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Wow, thanks for the detailed explanation! This is so crazy to me - so much unnecessary complexity and inflexibility that makes so little sense. From reading your post it took me like 15 seconds to more or less understand how a Dutch controller works whereas this whole ring and barrier thing just...

Honestly this seems like an incredibly cumbersome and archaic system. How is it possible that traffic light phases not fully programmable? Is what you're describing true for even the latest traffic light controllers? What is the actual technical implementation of an 'overlap', do you need a...

I do realize this post is quite old but as I haven't had logged into UT for a while I thought I'd respond now. On the Don Branch itself? Not really any - other than maybe Danforth. The issue is more for north and south of that. At S-Bahn stop spacing you would probably stop at Gerrard, East...

That’s crazy - I was under the impression that the the Stage 2 project was already supposed to achieve the max possible frequency without double tracking the tunnel. It’s frankly insane that this $80M of additional track wasn’t completed then…

Perhaps I should expand a bit on my original post. I'm assuming that what we really want is a full build out true S-Bahn-ification of GO, and that HSR should minimally conflict with that goal, so long as doing so does not drastically increase costs. If every GO line runs 10 minute frequency...

Demolish the Ellesmere overpass and replace with an underpass, then build the line over the railway? Or build a tall viaduct over the Ellesmere bridge, placing Ellesmere station above the overpass? There's definitely ways to solve the problem that are much, much cheaper than what we ended up...

I've always thought any HSR using the Don branch to get into Toronto made little sense. Those lines are much better suited to local service, and putting high speed trains on those lines severely limits their use for local trains as only two passenger tracks will fit. I would use LSE up to Ajax...

You realize a majority stake of it is owned by the Canada Pension Plan right?

Not sure if anyone has posted this before but one escalator at Hwy 407 station has been permanently removed, which looks pretty dumb. When did this happen?? Lol

Why do we think it's correct to "blame drivers for congestion"? Should we blame transit riders for overcrowding? Frankly, I find this attitude (which I also had in the past) quite disrespectful and counterproductive. At the end of the day, drivers, just like everyone else on the road, are just...

I'm generally in the camp of using intersection names, but I don't have that much of an issue with the neighbourhood names. Neighbourhood names are useful if they are used, and they are used if they are useful. Once Cedarvale and Fairbank (both names I had previously never heard of before...

Yes, I am aware of how the New York/Chicago naming scheme works, and of course a New Yorker who uses the subway will know as well. But will a suburbanite from New Jersey who uses the subway twice a year know how this works? Or an infrequent user who has a poor sense of direction and wants to...

Not sure if this has been posted before (did some quick searching but didn't find anythign), but I was browsing the City of Vaughan's website today and found out they have some pretty good plans for bike lanes, cycle tracks and even protected intersections (!) on a number of collector roads in...

Paris has no duplicates - they always have at least different prefixes or suffixes, or the "duplicate" stations are interchange stations. I agree that the naming conventions are pointless to obsess over, but I do think that duplicate station names, especially of stations which are far apart...

While this 401 tunnel idea is somewhat crazy (I for one would rather see more GO branches to improve coverage, HSR, adding truck lanes, and/or a 160km/h express orbital metro line along the 407) I would like to write a bit more on Sydney’s tunnel construction for context, as it is much more than...