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Is the storage expansion at Hillcrest a given? Or will these be stored at improvised locations like Exhibition Loop? Tons of tall here about this years back but I don’t recall a clear resolution.

What does a billion dollars buy? 1. Tiger #1 2. Tiger #2 3. Etc…

Some of these PCCs are really hauling ass.

Holy crap. Reading the dates. I think of 407 as new. This is 30 years old.

*I hear an axe grinding* Far more salt is used on sidewalks - personally that is my pet peeve - to create an Elmer the Safety Elephant environment where no one will ever slip. Salt is used to prevent far more than car slippage in the winter.

I was on Castlefield this week. Barrie GO has an at-grade crossing here which is very disruptive to traffic and btw the train was flying through the intersection - didnt feel very ‘safe’ by today‘s standards. Is there a plan to grade separate this crossing?

I checked my facts there first, but am I right to read that the grand unions weren’t there in the 1963 diagram?

The three current grand unions are at Spadina and King, Spadina and Queen, and Bathurst and King. Those intersections are much simpler here. I had (mistakenly) thought they would have always been so. Based on this, the most complex intersections are some pretty minor ones. Church and King...

And 4471 and 4478?

So on the topic of winding things up, what are the key incomplete, critical path issues which prevent revenue service from being started, say…today? On one hand, we have cheerful Metrolinx tweets about max speed testing underground and taking a look at the surface section east of Brentcliffe a...

And while we're at it, is there any plan to remove the plates welded onto the tracks on Victoria St, and return the Dundas Square to Shuter and Shuter to Queen blocks to service(able short turn usage)? Great fanfare on converting the overhead at Dundas Square and re-doing the special work there...

but not quite sure why one would want that. Network robustness. Short turn flexibility.

Are there any curves and special work that have been destroyed and pissed away on Richmond that need to be restored?

@robmausser TMI. That is the most disconcerting thing I have read today.

As a kid - I took Line 2 to school. Got on west of Old Mill. I loved when the subway travelled over the Humber at Old Mill. I was thinking that the view would be great at Eglinton Flats on Line 5. Gotta love these councillors. Solving all these *real* problems. It's not for no reason that the...