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Which is deceptive. There was in fact a slow order between Vic Park and Warden recently.

I want to be clear, I am by no means advocating for a subway in the past, now, or in the near future for Finch. The underlying data...

Just to reiterate 10.3/(46/60)= 13.43 km/h, not 13.53 km/h as seen in the widely spread Twitter typo. And according to the Star, the...

I knew it was a figure of speech so I re-added the emphasis I deleted earlier. I'm not bootlicking any foreign regime. I am pointing...

Because comparing trip times along distances where both Lines are straight (e.g. Yonge vs. Bloor), Line 1 always has longer than...

You are right, TTC ops do not adhere to the published schedule or service summary headways. Operations are nearly always slower, with...

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but $2.5 billion/10.3 km=$240 million/km was the estimated cost in 2023. As of March 31 2025, the...

Let's give the benefit of the doubt to borderline jingoistic rhetoric on China. We are comparing Ontario, a jurisdiction of 13 to 16...

Based on the current progress, 2029 is a reasonable estimate. Construction started in 2020 and was to be complete by end of 2024. That...

The marketing said 34 minutes end to end, for an average of 18 km/h. Now we're being told it could go as high as 46 minutes. JFC the...

And yet the similar length ION LRT started in summer 2014 and opened less than 5 years later in 2019. Trial running started in late 2017...

The numbers are not wrong, at the very least not as badly as you make it sound....As you said, Richmond Hill line had 5,800 riders per...

I don't know about 10 billion of existing infrastructure, that would mean a transit-only Champlain Bridge, MR tunnel, and Deux Montagnes...

You are definitely correct that we would not make back 5 stops worth of time by switching to EMU, and that it is theoretically possible...