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Good eye! Have a look at Humberline just south of Finch West, and you can see the remains of pavement that's directly aligned with the bulk of Humberline's alignment, suggesting that the road used to go straight. I believe that Humberline is a concession road, one kilometre or so to the west...

Speaking of our old road history, take a look at Google maps and trace out the remains of Passmore Avenue. That used to be the concession road north of Finch, with the border falling on Steeles at some odd distance north of there due to some strange anomaly. Whereas Finch and Sheppard and all...

I think the situation might be analogous to Chicago rather than, say, Detroit. Toronto had several lucky strikes throughout the seventies, of which the decision to maintain its streetcars and abandon expressway construction were only two. The fact that Montreal's commercial wealth emptied out of...

Anybody catch the Transit City report which speculates that an option for the Jane LRT could be to hop onto the Weston Sub, avoiding the narrow street at the southern end of the route, and running directly downtown to Union, acting as a "western downtown relief line". Through routing that...

Thanks, guys. And I think I will amend the map to include a terminal at Seneca College. The Sheppard-Finch line extension to the Airport will have to be a "future extension". :-) ...James

A Fictional Transit Map Since we're all sharing fantasy maps, here, I thought I'd share one of my own. I'll post this remotely for a limited time. http://clarksbury.com/subway-fantasy.jpg It goes with a story I'm working on called "The Night Girl". And before anybody gets excited, they...

It's good to be back. I've been lurking for a while thanks to your site's RSS feed. ...James

I agree that the idea of having MT buses replace service on 50 Burnhamthorpe and 49 Bloor West is a good idea and long overdue. And I don't think the TTC even has to lose its cash fare, all that much. All the buses would have to do is disembark at a conveniently placed entrance to the subway...