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I don't see why adding a different type of link would be an advantage over just adding a few more ferries. As the eastern waterfront develops, add a ferry dock to the keating channel, walking distance to the QQE streetcar and Villiers island. Run ferries from there to the Ward's dock, and add an...

and if the developers don't want to, the local or provincial government should probably adjust the zoning to force them to build less sprawling neighbourhoods.

Are you actually criticizing Metrolinx for posting a safety message about a new piece of infrastructure? Metrolinx deserves criticism for some things, but I think it would be irresponsible to not mention the danger of high voltage wires in a public posting.

The government needs to implement appropriate road pricing to avoid this happening. Rail is a much more efficient way of moving mass freight, and if trucking starts to become cheaper we likely are undercharging for the use of road infrastructure. Roads are expensive and definitely worse for the...

How dare metrolinx dare to run trains in a rail corridor that they already own. Absolutely shameful.

Assuming Finch West is completed roughly on-time and on budget, I think you would want to contract the same company(ies) to build the extension. The engineers and construction teams know the infrastructure and would have learned from the project. I'd expect there was also some thought to...

I'm not sure why they don't just close off the south side of Atlantic to make it pedestrian-only, and extended it elevated to create a nice pedestrian bridge/Station Concourse. That pedestrian connection needs to be built to handle high numbers of people, and ramping up off Atlantic seems like...

These would be useful for allowing easier cycling within the suburbs. There are side streets near Dundas that provide nicer cycling, but there are several barriers that really limit mobility unless you are quite comfortable cycling in traffic: The 427 Mimico Creek (to a lesser extent) Credit...

It's not ideal, but certainly not unheard of. The Northern Line in London has 3 stations where the tracks are on flipped sides:

BRT on Sheppard doesn't make sense if that is the only route you add BRT to, but if you also added BRT infrastructure on Victoria Park, Warden, and McCowan, BRT should provide a better transit coverage at a lower cost than LRT due to the shared infrastructure. Now, if line 4 is never extended...

Sitting on a bus making stops every 200m and constantly stuck in traffic sucks. An express bus with dedicated lanes and 400-500m stop spacing is similar to an LRT but on tires instead of rails

The flexibility of BRT would make sense given the number of corridors in Scarborough that you would eventually want some kind of BRT infrastructure on (some just queue jump lanes, some full median BRT): Sheppard (Victoria Park to Morningside) Steeles (Young to McCowan) Finch (Don Mills to...

Is LRT required, or would BRT lanes provide better flexibility? You can extend line 4 to Vic Park and then build BRT lanes on Sheppard from Vic Park to Morningside.

Especially with the planned streetcar connection through to the Portlands, it would actually allow the QQLRT to have an Ontario line connection at both ends. Hopefully they allow for a future infill station.

It would make sense to run it along the Queensway and then up the 427.

If they were ever going to do an elevated line along Sheppard, I'd expect it to follow the CP ROW east of Midland. It would still be close enough to the connection at Sheppard-McCowan, while providing a better route to a logical terminus of Malvern.

Progress on the Kerr St Grade Separation. I believe the work by Dana is related to the fact that they are losing their current loading dock and a portion of the lawn in front of their building.

Yes, you can compare the cost of other projects, but the other factors behind some of the decisions are vastly different. I'm not saying I agree with some of the decisions made on other projects, but I'd rather discuss the actual merits of the OL design choices rather than get into...

No idea, but I'm talking about the Ontario Line not the EWLRT. They are separate projects, in separate communities, with different stakeholders and design constraints. We can discuss who buried it in that thread. As far as community engagement goes, is this not what Metrolinx is doing? They...

Does Ford actually care whether it was tunnelled or in the rail corridor? This decision seems like it came from the engineers and not politicians. I'd expect the exchange between Ford and Metrolinx along the lines of: Ford: "I need a transit project to promote as my own so that I have a legacy"...