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Largely comes down to execution and the environment, IMO... my gut says to agree with you- I think you can get a really interesting pattern going, especially if it's done well. But, I can't say I'd want to see a newly renovated building to evoke the less well-kept ones are nearby... it needs to...

I greatly appreciate these. Like the SRT, this was clearly something they were seriously considering building and wanted a specific community to be the showcase for. I do think we would have ended up with better service to Hamilton much sooner, but I do struggle to see the full ALRT network...

...And now would be roughly be when we'd want to model such things to have something planned for. Which must be made harder by the fact that every single rapid transit project is in any state but complete. It seems like there was a reality that a lot of tunnel would be needed under Toronto at...

Out of curiosity, what would be the options to increase capacity in the core? I know Metrolinx has studied various 'Union bypasses' and such, but those seem to have been rolled into the Ontario Line, functionally at least. Even if the Don Branch is reactivated/Bala Sub becomes more heavily used...

The primary purpose for the MTO is not to induce sprawl, its to alleviate the western GTA highway network, primarily the 401. The primary purpose for Doug Ford is likely to accelerate sprawl, but he has been accelerating infrastructure across the board, so this isn't as clear-cut as it appears...

I would wager it’d be closer to your lower end if HSR is the goal, maybe a 200km/h average? But I’m not trying to get caught up in that. I also checked the distance to Toronto, and it’s about 112km as the crow flies, less than half the distance to Ottawa at 240km to Parliament. So, unless...

The time savings here are insane and honestly might be overkill, but I’m not complaining. Id love to see the speed/usage relationship. Now, if you could get travel times down to say, 1-1.5 hours from Peterborough to Ottawa, then Peterborough to Toronto is also in play. And, if people can do...

While on the one hand, you could alleviate a large number of trains off the Galt sub for GO service, it couldn’t be all of them. On the other hand, the 407 Bypass is just a better option- it’s shorter and can follow existing rail alignments fairly well. Perhaps there’s a way to do it- I don’t...

The general sentiment I've been hearing is that it is much better on the whole, just tweaked a bit. My understanding is its a sort of reconfiguration/optimization of the plan as the actual project has taken shape. The IBC is just what GO was expecting- not what will be delivered. Some things are...

This is a conversation about the marginal value one gains versus the marginal cost when evaluating the two options. I'm not trying to say EMUs have this kind of disadvantage, but that it doesn't have unspoken advantages beyond what is already known- shorter/faster acceleration times being the...

It seems people think EMUs are a magic bullet, but they are highly contingent on a much tighter stopping environment, which we cannot afford in a vacuum, nevermind if we actually replaced the fleet. EMUs do not automatically mean subway-like service. We benefit from starting with a more...

Barrie yes, Stouffville no- only to downtown Markham (Unionville GO) at first. Though it was originally planned to be to Mount Joy, cost has presumably gotten in the way. Because MX owns the entire line, though, it is likely immaterial to extend electrified service at a later date. Many other...

This is greatly appreciated, I'll give it a shot. Will pull forward stuff (from this thread) if I can't find anything. I was having issues with some of the 'plexes posted on the first few pages, which are only from 2023, so I'll fiddle with the AIC a bit more. Thanks!

Oh, to bump a thread such as this... I'm attempting to actually use the new AIC portal for the first time ever, and can't even follow links posted on UT without just being redirected to the landing page/map. That would be fine, if every single project I've searched for actually showed up- am I...

I know for a fact, and that York Region does as well, that this is not true. The issue is service hours, plain and simple. York Region consistently has less service hours, and service density at large, relative to population and job density compared to its peers of similar or lower density. The...