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I can testify here, since I'm on Freedom. As of the last time I used the TTC (early March), I get reception in all of the stations, plus in the tunnels on Line 1 between St. George and Bloor-Yonge and between Sheppard West and Vaughan. Weren't there plans to install the network I'm the rest of...

Maybe while you're at it consider a full reno, or even just retiling of the walls at College (and many of the Yonge Line stations, because a lot of them, especially south of Bloor don't exactly look great), but something like this would be hard to find funding for. I actually quite like the...

I don't know whether to be surprised by this or not! Hopefully the TTC follows up with some specifics on how these will be done in the next month or so.

10 to 15 years down the road, when hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric technologies in trains mature a bit, I could see either one of these technologies used for GO service on freight-owned corridors, since it would be somewhat of a win-win situation: GO gets low emissions service and the...

So, the Vancouver SkyTrain?

You would think that it would make the most sense to tunnel to just past the 401/427/Eglinton spaghetti junction and travel at-grade or elevated on the north side of Eglinton, but I'm unsure about whether there would be enough space for a launch/extraction shaft between Eglinton and the highway...

Before I found it, I was still pretty sure that the Exhibition extension was further along, but that's full-on proof. Funny how it came up as the second result of a Google Search for "exhibition place streetcar extension". The file is dated from April of last year, so I can only imagine the...

IIRC the design and planning for the connection between Exhibition Loop and Dufferin Gate Loop seems to be even farther along than the planning for the Union and Queen's Quay expansion and the extension along Queen's Quay East. Granted, the Exhibition Place extension is a far simpler and less...

The primary concern for absolute bus-only lanes (at least in the short-term) would be construction, since there's a couple of projects along Dufferin that are blocking lanes right now (the Crosstown LRT at Eglinton and a development going up just north of Queen, although I forget what it's...

I don't understand why, or how this is moving so darn slowly! Is there a reason behind this or is this just typical Toronto transit planning?

Quite possibly. I've also heard some people throw around the idea of converting the elevated guideway into a linear park, which I could definitely see happening, especially to provide all of the people working and living in the area some green space (correct me if I'm wrong, but there doesn't...

A real shame, especially since inevitable plans to install platform doors along the TTC system (it's only a matter of time until proposals pop up to retrofit many of the existing stations with them) will cost more because of the shortsightedness and money-saving intentions of the people planning...

Another example of some fairly nice stations (albeit not as grand as the ones in the pictures you posted), are the ones on Copenhagen's new M3 line, for example, the one below. Or, if you prefer, there's some better examples in the article in this link. The reason I bring this up is because...

Obviously, this is what a sensible plan (elevated, curving around developments) for this corridor would look like. But Metrolinx clearly has no intention of even considering something if it's not on-street or underground. I asked a question regarding this on the Metrolinx Engage page for the...

Finch West and Hurontario are both under construction now (Hurontario having begun removals of the medians along its route), and thus don't require many planning resources to go ahead. While we don't quite know the exact timelines Metrolinx currently has planned, since the RFQ for the Northern...

It would be amazing if something like this could happen along Eglinton (although not in this exact manner, since Paris and Toronto are very different cities), especially since most of Eglinton from the Allen to Black Creek feels a little drab. The inevitable wave of developments around the...

It's a shame something like this was never seriously considered since it would address the issues of fixing the SRT, as well as providing rapid transit along Sheppard East (or, at least close to Sheppard East for most of the route, since it would largely run along the 401) as well as rapid...

My thoughts exactly. You may not like the SSE's route, the fact that it's a subway and not an LRT, or the fact that it's planned to open about a decade later than the original LRT proposal. But at this point, the LRT plan is extremely far out the window, and the current government seems deadset...

I'd love to see the TTC or Metrolinx do something like this, but there's a fat chance of that ever happening in our lifetimes, if at all, at least with their current leadership. Especially since it seems like Translink has been doing things much better than the TTC or Metrolinx have in a while...

That's what I find so frustrating about all of this. Yes, I know that the kinds of challenges for the REM (geography, alignment, especially with the REM passing through much less challenging and easier to build in areas, etc.) are different from the Crosstown, but a project of arguably larger...