Search results

Your second sentence answered your first. Having strong transit access to King West is important in the long term. It is unfortunate that some buildings will have to be demolished, but the long-term benefits are worth it.

I think if you wanted streetcars on the surface, you would keep them underground until you get north of Lakeshore. You can have your portal just north of Lakeshore and have Bay north of Lakeshore be a northbound 1-way 1-lane street to maintain access to the CIBC complex. This also simplifies the...

They also will want to buy the ROW before upgrading the tracks so they can pay their own price and not CN's for track work. I wonder if this service is a preliminary deal while they negotiate a deal to buy the full ROW.

The bailey bridge should definitely be replaced with a wider, step-free bridge instead. Lakeshore should also be reduced to 2-lanes per direction to allow for a 2-way bike lane on the south side that will essentially widen the Martin Goodman trail and reduce bike-pedestrian conflicts. Keeping...

From what I can see, here are the step-free crossings of lakeshore between Strachan and Lakeshore: Newfoundland Rd/Ontario Place Blvd (Traffic lights w/ Pedestrian crosswalk) Pedestrian bridge to Budweiser Stage New Brunswick Way (Traffic lights w/ Pedestrian crosswalk) Pedestrian Bridge to...

The question is whether that money could be better spent. Hamilton GO is always going to be the end of that line, compared to West Harbour, which is an intermediate stop on a longer line. A complete shoot from the hip, for the cost of that tunnel upgrade, you could: Build the dedicated trackage...

As they build it out west, they need to add North-South lanes to allow for good network connectivity. The first phase to confederation parkway makes sense as it can easily connect to Cooksville GO. The second phase should get to Erin Mills Pkwy and UTM, ideally with bus lanes added to Erin Mills...

What does the public know about the power source behind trains? I'd rather leave that up to the engineers whose job it is to understand the pros and cons of different options and select the best one.

We can dream that these will be anything near the final product, but King-Liberty and East Harbour have the potential to be some truly Modern and beautiful train stations. They also have the potential to offer a much nicer experience than the mess that is union. I wonder if the Exhibition...

The preliminary design is an elevated guideway over the 401 and then running at grade to the airport. You can probably find it in the EGWLRT thread.

Because Metrolinx wants GTAA to pony up cash and provide land for the tracks and the station. If it wasn't for COVID cutting into GTAA's profits, it probably would have happened in phase 1. Now it's got to wait until GTAA makes their transit plans before it's worth trying to make the connection.

The bus service has no reason to provide good service to the train station and visitors coming in. If frequent train service was in the cards, I'd imagine the city, downtown BIA, and festival would all want to make sure they can bring in tourists through transit. But until that point, the bus...

Once GO is running 15 minute or better service on the corridor, it would make sense for UPX to change its stopping pattern so that it has a non-stop to union service and an "all stops" service that stops at woodbine, mount Dennis, Bloor, and Union.

GO creating hubs in London and Kitchener, with train service between them, would allow for much better transit throughout SWO. The London hub could allow connections between: GO Train service to Kitchener (and Toronto, but it wouldn't be the best way to get to Toronto) VIA trains to: Windsor...

If the new Ontario Place justified transit access, a streetcars extension from Exhibition to Ontario place would make sense. You could build it at the same time as the extension to Dufferin.

The issue is carrying around the extra weight of batteries requires more power on acceleration and extra wear on brakes at every stop. Batteries probably make sense in areas that you can't put up catenary, but only if you can justify the extra expense of maintenance and energy use for carrying...

I'd love to see evidence of this. Are there commuter train systems running today with this kind of system? 100% catenary on main lines is definitely much more energy-efficient, especially if they are going to be running 15-minute or faster frequencies.

They absolutely could, but it's not electrification that is bringing better service. They need to finish double tracking and quad tracking corridors, upgrading level crossings, creating grade separations, expanding stations, and many other small infrastructure improvements before they can...

Finding cheap available land for an MSF if they plan to eventually get the OL to Hwy 7. If using the 404 ROW, that extra 500-800m of track to go further North and build a bigger MSF won't be too cost prohibitive.

I think 3 phases are more likely. Phase 1 to Sheppard. Phase 2 to Steeles, shifting from Don Mills to the 404 at Seneca. Phase 3 is along the 404 to Hwy 7, with a new MSF around Buttonville.