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It’s time to jack up suburban property values to fund the much needed services there.

If only politicians understood that the way to fix the housing crisis is to build more in smaller towns. We need the Guelphs and Peterboroughs to boom and grow. Then connect them with other centres by rail with frequent service. Yes they become somewhat bedroom communities but they also inject...

Exactly. That’s the only real area of controversy. Easily managed by fiat. Buy out the properties and expropriate the ROW. There should be no reason to have single family homes on a major arterial, especially once the subway comes to Steeles.

I agree. I think we need to be less focused on suburban to downtown travel and more regional travel. The aim should je to connect major trip generators together. So university/college campuses to regional centres like Vaughan. Heck it’s even worth considering adding tourism places like...

If it wasn’t for the Liberals delaying the Toronto LRTs and posturing to the Toronto city council idiotic debates we would have gotten most of Transit City already built by now. Finch was delayed by 5 years. Scarborough was a mess because there was no vision from the province. Doug got the...

That’s politician speak for it’s not a priority. Anything unfunded doesn’t move forward. Heck even some funded things are stuck - see Hamilton LRT.

Option 2 in a heartbeat. He will make 2x but feel like 3x due to low living costs and lower taxes. If he misses his parents he can fly in once a month for the weekend. Seriously, it’s a no brainer.

Elevated maybe fine in some spots but the issue is grade separation. It’s not needed in most of the suburbs with wide arterials that can support simply a dedicated lane. Look at highway 7 brt. It’s more than fine for the needs of York Region. It’s just under serviced due to YRT poor decisions .

Not in the Toronto suburbs no. Subways need to go where they belong - in dense urban areas. It’s a colossal cost to dig underground and there is no need to do this in the burbs. Ontario line makes sense as a subway. Anything beyond that and maybe some extensions of existing lines doesn’t make...

Anectodal evidence is all we got as the TTC doesn’t collect proper data. My comment about nobody uses it was for Bessarion station specifically not the entire line. I agree that the line as it is is short and doesn’t hit enough trip generators or destinations. Imagine we built it as a surface...

I don’t see why even with the coming density on Eglinton and Finch that we would need an elevated subway/metro there. One only needs to look at Sheppard to see that even with some density, Line 4 is heavily underused and is basically empty. I recently rode it last week during rush hour taking my...

You’re probably right but after 8 years we need to give Dougie the boot.

Blue liberal is exactly what Ontario needs actually. Someone fiscally responsible and not beholden to developer buddies.

With the TTC introducing debit/credit card payments via tap, I don't get why they set it to the same fare as Presto. Presto should be a discount over cash/debit/credit. If anything, credit transactions are expensive for the TTC as they lose 2-4% of the tap amount. So wouldn't it make sense to...

This is insanity really. The density is too much and too focused on Yonge Street. We can't have a metropolis where 1/4 people live on 1 street. Not everyone will take transit on every trip, and the subway is already highly used. How will people move around these super nodes? What public...

Right but what’s the cost to do the whole Line 1 or 2? Each is about 30 stations so at 30 each station that would be 800-900M a line. A huge investment to make.

Platform doors are expensive to retrofit in old lines. The newer lines they should je standard. The new Ontario line will have them and the new REM in Montreal will as well.

Exactly. The Bay should close secondary mall stores as those malls are dying and the Bay stores there are always empty. Another example is CentrePoint. That mall is dead except for NoFrills and Canadian Tire. It’s due for massive redevelopment and the Bay store there is always empty yet it...

That’s good. There are too many Bay stores in secondary malls. It’s overdue for the Bay to downsize and close unproductive stores as loss leaders. The company is failing slowly and painfully.

Depends how pissed off Ontarians will be in 2026. We don’t elect governments here we turf out existing ones when we get mad. If Ontario is doing well in 2026 with a good economy and Ford scandals to a minimum then he could win with a vote split of Libs/NDP.