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Cyclists do kill pedestrians... in a "man bites dog" news sense. There are fundamental physics at play, a 170 lb cyclist + 10 lb bike going 25 km/hour just doesn't have the same momentum as a three-tonne car going 90 km/hour. There is a very strong relationship between the speed of a car during...

Pfff you mean you expect that our $15 million trains delivered just last year should have something more sophisticated than blinking red and green LEDs? I always thought the route maps were cute, they remind me of the labs in my first year undergraduate electrical engineering course. I'm not...

I'm in agreement about following Japan's example, but you keep referring to "Smart planning" and "planners" as the reason for Tokyo's success. If by "planners" you mean "urban planners", then you're mistaken. The reason Japan has so much liveable density and little mini downtowns at each train...

Interesting timing, since Montreal just announced the same thing. The supposed motivation for the study is because the blue line extension will exacerbate overcrowding in the most crowded section of the orange line... just like how the Scarborough subway extension will do the same to the Yonge...

It's fine to run an occasional bus for the small minority of elderly/infirm who have mobility issues for coverage. We do that already on Yonge or on Sheppard. It just doesn't make sense to have *all* of the vehicles stop for the sake of that small minority. WheelTrans, dial a ride, or a...

So even though 95% of this route has nothing directly fronting Eglinton, this option is discarded because of the hypothetical aesthetic objections of a couple dozen townhomes? I'd also like to point out that there is nothing but empty fields on the south side of Eglinton across from the...

That's ~250 meters from the end of one platform to the beginning of the next. Compare with the next adjacent stations: ~850 meters to Sherbourne and ~820 meters to Spadina. This is still an improvement over having a single station at the "psychological heart" of Toronto, but still seems like...

You mean unfortunately? :P

The second sentence right there says it all "She later produced a compromise plan that backed Mr. Tory's call for a subway [...]" i.e. the one-stop subway is her plan. She wasn't just complicit in legitimizing it or in not speaking out against it, it originated from her and her department. She...

I work in an industrial park with an infuriating road network. When strangers ask me for directions I can't help them, despite knowing the way, because there are so many loops and turns involved. To get from one of my work buildings to another on foot, despite being 300 meters away, requires...

The Province forced the TTC into it by threatening to withdraw funding if the TTC didn't adopt Presto. Originally, the TTC was going to go with a debit/credit payment system. Technically, the King street pilot has *cost* the city $1.5 million, which they've spent on planning, enforcement, art...

Kind of like how the province reduced TTC revenue by millions due to the botched Presto rollout?

I don't know if you're serious when you say that a flat fare across the city was the result of finding "the most efficient fare structure down to a complicated calculus." The low fare recovery ratio isn't a mark of an efficient fare structure. It's low because: Accounting: Most agencies...

Ah, isn't Parsons the same firm responsible for the CBOSS tire-fire of a signalling system? I've never heard of ETCCS. Some googling only resulted in posts by @steveintoronto and this forum, which basically confirms that Metrolinx is completely incapable of learning from its mistakes and will...

(Please forgive me for lecturing, since I know I'm preaching to the choir) As @steveintoronto and other posters have pointed out, Union station already has an abundance of tracks. Union was originally designed in the 1920s to handle freight traffic, intercity traffic (which was of a...

I had no idea UPX had a stop on Toronto Island until now. Thanks for pointing that out. Again, that's unrelated to any kind of operating subsidy since that's a potential capital cost to be borne by PortsToronto in the unlikely event of expansion to allow jets, paid for by landing fees of air...

So I found a reference or two that describes what you are saying, albeit less scandalously: Basically, Metrolinx only started studying capacity costraints at Union after the revitalization was underway. Some of the options they study (e.g. additional tracks under Union) are rendered...

Could you share some more background about this? I was under the impression that Metrolinx was going through the exercise of through-routing and track consolidation to widen platforms, and this is the first that I've heard about the new columns being a constraint.

How about "Dundasn't"?

It's for hotboxing.