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Is the Chicago el not a metro? There are some lines that do not run underground at all. Is Queen's Quay a metro station? It's served by a railway-based vehicle that's running underground. The vehicle matters. Whether it's underground doesn't.

If the DRL is tunnel-bored - which given the costs of doing anything else is a near certainty - would it really run under King or Queen exclusively? Wouldn't the alignment move a few hundred meters north and south from station to station over its east-west length? For example, I would expect...

If we wait for Metrolinx, we'll be waiting forever and the outcome will probably be compromised in typical Metrolinx fashion. I don't normally advocate this, but I think that a private company with ties to commercial real estate acquisition around downtown Kitchener would be our best bet here...

+1. Best line in the thread. Cities are made of people and the biggest crime a city can do is stamp out the vibrancy and life spontaneously generated by its citizens. Interestingly, you can stamp out life both by being overzealously enamoured with the latest, newest starchitecture or by...

But my original point was that downtown seemed like a bad bet for transit expansion. Job growth was forecasted to take place in the 'burbs (which it did, just not in the burbs of the 416!), and Metro's strategic plan was to focus employment in a polycentric fashion, anyway. The city centre...

^But that's the thing with transit - one is never sure of the fundamentals, especially when employment is shifting or, worse, being eliminated. Besides, it's worth noting that the Ontario government of the time was spending a lot of deficit money on another infrastructure project: nuclear...

I think that the DRL tunnel along Eglinton from ET Seton Park to Don Mills will be very steep to make it up the ravine from below the riverbed of the Don into the station at Don Mills. Either that, or we have to completely reconfigure the planned Crosstown station box to be, itself, very deep...

Most days, I grumble about how shortsighted we were back in the late 1980s/early 1990s when we basically sat on our hands and didn't build rapid transit. How great would it have been to ride something like Network 2011? At the same time, I'm somewhat sympathetic to the planners of the day...

They could, at the very least, replace the existing pre-cast cladding with the cream-coloured pre-cast cladding that you've shown in your photos. They might even run a cornice line along the top to give it more of their PoMo look. Even this would be a marginal improvement over what they have...

In regards to the proposal to move the YUS platform up a couple dozen meters to shave off some marginal transfer time, who wants to take bets on: 1) How much more expensive this will be? 2) How many months (years?) this project will delay the opening of the Crosstown?

I love (sarcasm) the fact that they took the only building with redeeming qualities on that corner and tore it down to build this oversized-EIFS shanty.

How could you possibly build a cross-platform transfer at Eglinton-Yonge? The two lines meet each other perpendicularly. In order to build a X-platform transfer, you'd have to bend either the Yonge line or the Eglinton-Crosstown, or both, into an elongated S with huge curve radiuses...

Disagree. Heritage isn't a magic bullet. The TD centre tradeoff was getting the best Miesian ensemble (towers plus pavilion) in the world and sacrificing a very fine, but very commonplace Beaux Arts banking hall. What makes the TD centre so consummately beautiful is the fact that it includes...

The building has the potential to be very elegant, although the fact that it's a Bazis condo designed by Varacalli should give people some pause. I actually think that Bazis/Varacalli have come out with some interesting designs, but the only completed example of their work that I know of - and...

No, I mean keeping non-revenue generating trams in storage. I've never heard of a transit operator anywhere that kept more than 10 models of a tram that it knew would not ever be used for anything other than special purpose/special event runs.

Maybe the "solution" would be to only allow the third tower (the one that's east of Duncan) to be built. It is sort of the best of both worlds: the Princess Wales theatre and the most interesting warehouses are saved, and we get a unique Gehry tower. Of course, that solution ignores the...

I agree with most of the reasoned commentary here. The WBB was a landmark store, but the building itself is horrendous and I won't miss seeing it go. I'd really like to see all of Edward street spruced up, eventually. The parking lot across from the bus terminal has remarkable staying power...

I agree with insertnamehere. The Mississauga Transitway should remain a busway indefinitely and conversion to the LRT, let alone a westward expansion of the Eglinton-Crosstown, should not be contemplated. Busways aren't lower order than LRT, they just serve a different purpose. The purpose...

To be fair, I have never heard of a city that kept a large proportion of its obsolete transit vehicles after its replacements were up and running. There just isn't the space or the money to keep these in storage. My guess is that the Halton County Museum gets a CLRV or an ALRV, the TTC keeps...

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