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What about the York University busway? That's in a hydro corridor.

To be fair, the original (Option 1) location for Langstaff station was even more surrounded by red (cemetery to the east, park n ride to the west, SFH to the south, highway ramps to the north. So at least this is more central on an east-west axis to the Langstaff lands. You can see that in the...

There are two option 3's: There is the IBC Option 3 where part of the curve was tunneled under the cemetery. This is from 2020 but was only released this month. There is the Refined Option 3 where the subway enters the CN ROW south of Holy Cross cemetery. This is the most recent alignment...

Whoops my bad, I took another look and the document from 2013 that I linked to compared options 1, 2, and 2a instead of 1, 2, and 3. So yes, it's new but I doubt it was any more involvement from him personally than a directive to "innovate" to stay within a project budget and avoid unnecessary...

I know you keep referring to this as "Ford's alignment", "Ford's request," etc. but I doubt he personally has interest in micromanaging subway alignments in the same way that us transit nerds do. This and the Ontario line both show the same kind of institutional thinking at Metrolinx that was...

An interesting idea that is similar is called CANZUK. The proposal is for freedom of movement between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Many politicians in these countries have expressed support, and it has polled as a popular idea. You seem to think Conservatives in Canada would be...

There's another TBOT report that does mention a fare model. But I wouldn't say this qualifies as a fare increase, and it's not pay-by-distance strictly speaking. Overall I think the TBOT report is a great step forward. Some comments, though. The Neptis review of GO RER seemed to think that...

Hey @Reecemartin, I like watching your videos and I think they make good points, but I wanted to just offer one constructive suggestion. Railfans love maps, trains, and renderings so I think your videos would benefit if you threw in more visuals to show what you're talking about instead of it...

Regulations against passenger facility charges doesn't seem to prevent the Astoria line extension, though, since the extension would be terminating at the airport. Through-running through the airport is a great idea, in theory, but in practice I can't think of any airports in Canada/US served...

Does anyone know if this platform supports UPX being moved from the northernmost to southernmost USRC tracks?

Right now there is no "Thornhill" station planned at Centre/John. That was proposed by @sunnyraytoronto to consolidate Clarke and Royal Orchard into a single, more centrally-located stop with more bus coverage. If we get all the original stops then I think adding in Centre would be excessive...

I'm not a fan of this: It makes the sharp turns even sharper and the speeds even slower If the inviolability of the Holy Cross cemetery from the center of the earth to Low Earth Orbit is the reason for our current alignment, then I don't see why using the southern end to run an above-ground...

I currently live in Willowdale and the official Canada Post address shows up "North York" (not Toronto) for me. The councilor raises a good point, though. I don't see how the cemetery could have more NIMBY's than the Kirk drive neighbourhood. I'm kind of surprised too, given that they are...

Originally there used to be a loop called "Vincent loop" at Dundas west station, named after Vincent street, which was eliminated when the Crossways complex was built. The official name of the subway yard to the west of Dundas West station is "Vincent Yard." Originally, the TTC wanted to call...

Actually, this alignment was changed in the refined business case to make sure that none of it goes under Holy Cross Cemetery, which is part of the reason why the final Option #3 alignment is even curvier. That's something that confuses me: why is it a requirement to not go underneath the...

I think Eglinton Connects is a great idea for all the reasons you've listed above. I'd love to see bike lanes extended from where the multi-use trail on Eglinton ends just west of Jane. But so much about the article you linked to is infuriating: In a city with an acute housing affordability...

I wish they would separate out transfer traffic from other boardings/alightings at stations so we could get a better sense of local demand (walk-in traffic/surface routes.) Yonge-Sheppard has a lot of local demand and bus routes but adding in all of the people transferring from line 4 makes it...

I'm not clear what point you're making. Yonge/Cummer is still in Toronto, south of Steeles and the "905." I was just arguing that a station at Yonge/Cummer has much more walk-in ridership potential than many (if not most) Eglinton LRT stations, so it would be a mistake to leave it out as an...

I'm sure a lot of people would be very happy if the city stopped subsidizing golf courses and turned that into parkland. Not our Mayor, though. Specifically I'd like to see Earl Bayes park extended to York Mills station through what is currently the Don Valley Golf Course. Jennifer Keesmat...

That's a good point. The Places To Grow act gave density targets as more of a gentle suggestion without any real enforcement. And the targets were laughably low to begin with. It was a "we pinkie swear not to sprawl at a rate any worse than the rate we've already been sprawling in the sprawliest...