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People take transit because it takes them to where they want to go and they value their time. That means that, as long as there is room for them, they tend to take the route with the shortest travel time. Downtown circulators generally perform very poorly, because once you account for the...

We could get rid of the Wilcocks street stop too, I would use it regularly but feel embarrassed pressing the button given how close the stop was to Harbord.

You're describing the Laffer curve, which relates the degree of taxation to the overall amount of revenue collected. The problem with that is that gas is a relatively small proportion of vehicle ownership costs, so vehicle miles aren't sensitive enough to gas price to see a drop in overall gas...

I had always disliked the greens because I'm pro-nuclear and very much against the idea of provincial funding for alternative medicine. But hearing the green candidate talk about a Land Value Tax, and about requiring municipalities to plan for density around transit, really made me reconsider my...

If the Sam the Record Man sign can be put up at an unrelated location, 30 stories above the ground, then why can't we shift parts of the old trainshed roof?

Astroturf grows well in shade ;) But I seriously hope they go with a glass roof instead of a green roof, it's nice having natural light and a view of downtown Toronto from the trainshed.

I took UPX on Sunday to go from Dundas West to Union. There were about a half dozen people with their luggage on the platform with me before I warned them that they were on the wrong platform if they were going to Pearson. They managed to cross just in time to make their train. I wonder how...

Ah oops, yep, that's what I meant. Caledonia is for the Barrie line.

When the Eglinton LRT is open, the stop at Caledonia will have a convenient connection to UPX as well, increasing the catchment area. I think that ridership will continue to grow as awareness of the service grows: many people are still unaware that UPX exists. My brother lives by Dundas west...

But was the building wearing a helmet? It must have darted into the driver's field of vision.

In a way, the UPX also has "direct" connections with three metro lines: Eglinton at Mt Dennis, Line 2 at Bloor, and Line 1 at Union. The connections are just a bit awkward at Bloor and Union. But for the REM, the connection to the Orange line at Gare Centrale is also very awkward, I hope it is...

I'm kind of hoping for a bridge; think of the amazing views of the Don Valley. Much nicer to get sunlight and see the city when travelling than to be trapped in a tunnel like some kind of troglodyte.

Why would you need a loop track? St. George doesn't have one. The net cost difference between having it south of Danforth and north of Danforth is nil, not some kind of astronomical add-on. The idea is that once the whole thing is running on ATC, you could put the wye into play just like St...

I'm a little disappointed with YUL's transportation plan compared to YYZ's. Pearson is looking to really increase their transportation mode share, they're talking about re-aligning the Kitchener corridor, connecting to 2 LRT lines, BRT, in addition to the existing airport train. Transit is an...

That last sentence is really frustrating because it's selling the idea that the city needs to restrict development downtown. How much transit does King street have compared to Brampton or outer Scarborough? Most people who move to King street do it to be close to work and to destinations, so how...

That's why the wye should be south... Line 2 trains could divert directly downtown via DRL if there's anything wrong at Bloor-Yonge/Castle Frank/Sherbourne/Broadview/Pape stations. Including the boxes and the wye? I know they decided on the general alignment and stations (e.g. "Sherbourne"...

So, based on this, it looks like the station locations have already been finalized?? Considering that the previous phase was the conceptual design.

We can go back and forth and anecdotally name sites of interest north of Queen and south of Queen but the idea that there are more ridership generators for a northern alignment is belied by the fact that existing transit ridership (as represented by the King and Queen streetcar lines) and...

If they are coming from Kennedy, it would make more sense for them to transfer to line 1 and get off at Dundas to get to Ryerson/Eaton centre anyway... There may be many destinations in the north of downtown, but you have to trade-off against the significant number of destinations in the south...

But the relief line is north-south, so it could be used to bridge that gap and have station exits/entrances onto Danforth. Right now the station box is even further north!!! According to the station fit study, this is why they built it so far north (and presumably the wye too) So they wanted...