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The TTC and Waterfront Toronto have been meeting for months on this project so WT was well aware of TTC's timing issues. Either their PR person doesn't talk to the staff involved, or they are being disingenuous in letting the TTC take the blame. I think that WT has simply run out of money...

To syn: Yes, ridership is up on St. Clair and growing. Additional off-peak service was added earlier this year. Probably need to add more service, but the lack of availability of vehicles is a peak period constraint, and budget is a problem for all service additions. As a street for...

Not only that, it is virtually impossible to build a wider tunnel in the central Eglinton section, without going below all the building foundations. As it is, there is only about 1.5m difference between the the available ROW width and the tunnel width.

Let's remember that an Eglinton line, LRT or subway, was not in Mr. Ford's initial plan. His campaign plan was to use the Phase 1 Transit City money ($8 billion for ECLRT, SRT+extension, SELRT and Finch LRT) to build the Sheppard Subway and extend the Danforth Subway to connect to Sheppard at...

It's a public bike storage shed (unrelated to Bixi). City site plan requirement.

A couple of points. The capital cost of implementing Presto at the TTC is approx. $400 million, with the province providing a subsidy that would reduce the cost to the TTC's budget to approx. $200 million. The costs are huge compared to the other transit systems which are a fraction of the...

I tend to agree with you. If we run true-to-form on progress over the last 40 years, we will end up either with nothing or with an incomplete stub of a line that we will then spend the next 30 years fighting over whether to extend or not. And that's for a line (Eglinton) that has probably more...

This is a perfect example of why things never get done in this city. Earlier in this thread, there was some discussion about why revamping QQ should take 6 years or more. Well, this is the reason. Everyone wants their say and expects to have their demands met. We expect our government and civil...

There are entrances at the street/sidewalk level of the Commons, one on each side of the boomerang. You do not have to go down into the "well" to enter or exit, although I believe there will be access from down there as well. The barrier-free entrance is the north one, across the street from...

Given that construction has only just started, completing this subway line in less than 5 years is a very aggressive construction plan. There is little to no flexibility for delays, either controllable or uncontrollable. Based on Sheppard Subway construction, which was on-time and on-budget...

Uploading just means moving the song and dance to a different conference room. The idea that making the province responsible for the TTC would somehow prod their collective conscience to properly fund the system is, shall we say, "not guaranteed." I repeat, there is nothing stopping the...

The formulation of the new transit plan is being negotiated behind closed doors between Metrolinx and the mayor's office. That's it, no one else. The new plan will be released whenever they have managed to horse-trade an agreement on what is to be built. Apparently, that is now the preferred...

There is no point in uploading anything unless the funding issue is resolved, and that can be done without going through the upheaval of a complete governance change. The only reason that there isn't full fare and service integration now across all boundaries is not because agencies don't know...

Any automated fare collection system will allow the ticket collectors to be removed. Presto or Open Payment would both do that. Both would require that the collectors be replaced with Fare Inspectors, probably more of them. In the case of Presto, include also specialized maintenance staff for...

I don't believe that there is an actual development proposal yet for Islington. I think that Build Toronto is preparing to market the property, and that usually involves showing possible building footprints, just to showcase how it could be done. The reference to Kipling Station is about the...

I suspect that, if the provincial court building is going ahead, some $ will have to be spent earlier to allow for access to the new building. I'm thinking some of the redirected Dundas and perhaps a local service road will be pre-built with the development, without spending the bulk of the...

Just to be clear, there was no massive cost overrun on St. Clair. There was a cost increase due to increased scope of work, much of which was already planned to be done in future years. Rather than tear up the street for successive years, these projects were accelerated and their costs...

It is correct that side-of-the-road operation is not appropriate everywhere. It really doesn't improve traffic flow for cars, and existing unsignalized driveways and cross-streets would either have to be closed off completely or signalized. Signalizing everything could make for a very slow...

On counts, the TTC has about 50 permanent staff to do system-wide counts. Not nearly as many would like, but it's what they have. In the case of specific route extensions which are being reported on, the TTC would do a special count just on that new section of route to determine the actual...

Stop spacing is like drawing lines on a map. It can be debated endlessly and everyone will have a different idea based on their own perceived needs and wants. In the end, the only guarantee seems to be that whatever is decided won't please everyone. The TC stop spacing of about 400-500m on the...