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Ah yes, the cost of fixing one tunnel (which goes under tracks and basically nothing else) and a small set of bespoke railcars is more than heavy construction on 6 stations, total signaling and electrification change out, a new or rebuilt maintenance facility, AND a new fleet of trains. . ...

As someone who lives in Scarborough, I struggle to believe that it had support anywhere close to what the subway has, whether it is warranted is another question (I don't think it is). Yes, and the LRT would be worse than the RT in nearly every way - while costing a lot. Before people...

As someone who has lived in cities other than Toronto (outside the GTHA), it still boggles my mind that anyone thinks sticking the the TTC standard for design is a good idea - these poles are indeed quite standard and they really don't hold up against best practices in other cities - they look...

This is misleading, its more like "they don't want to take the risk of doing something which will possibly be quite controversial", back to designing 2 tone condo towers and SAQ frontages it is. I don't really trust North American transit agencies to get renders right tbh . . .

From Twitter a bunch of the people with supposed environmental concerns were also suggesting Metrolinx should reconsider expanding / RER due to Covid so it seems to me they are probably just NIMBYs. Its also interesting that they are complaining about a public amenity like transit removing a...

Just because something bad (like management not using the system) is common doesn't make it less bad?

Oh my folks . . . This is false, a significant part of it (everything North of Olympic Village) was bored with TBMs 1) Construction inflation is an issue, but we aren't building the same thing so the playing field as the OP says is not even. 2) You talk about how disruptive construction for...

I do not know that that has "Been the plan from day 1" This is incorrect, GO was put under Metrolinx' control (more like a merger) after Metrolinx was created. The transit agencies surely should not be in charge, Metrolinx didn't exist for decades and the transit agencies didn't bring riders...

Sheppard to at least McCowan isn't all that far Northeast

You do realize that they do not need to shut the whole system down to install stuff right? Then again maybe H2 was really the ultimate option . . . .

But parts of the 905 are . . . look at Brampton, MiWay is slowly improving too - nobody is saying its a panacea but clearly its part of a broader sol'n "Owning lines" is not why Metrolinx has authority Why would the gov "buy out" agencies, transit is not making cities money . . . most would...

Using battery for the whole system makes *no* sense People have been talking about what the best answer is on this thread for *years* I guess you have not been listening VIA does not have a "massive" network, they mostly use networks owned by the freight railways for which there is a pretty...

It does not need to delay it by years, you just need to be smart and design in the necessary stuff for an OSD in the future as seen in London and Vancouver as well . . .

1) Could just fix the SRT 2) Its funny that this gets said, there is clearly tons of support for the subway and via various politicians (most elected in Scarborough) people DO get their voices heard, those voices just do not say the things which the author would like them too (most likely that...

I mean I think people forget what Phil Verster said a few years back which is that Metrolinx advises the gov but the choice is ultimately up to them. Look at the numbers for reports released by Metrolinx for some projects (that are being built) where Metrolinx suggests there is a poor business...

So is the city involved in this decision or not?

Because we are mad the UP curve is built to the minimal FRA turn radius (iirc) so pretty much any rolling stock should be fine given an appropriate speed (weight also isn't an issue because of FRA stuff). The dual height doors are kind of suboptimal for the majority of the fleet tho . . .

Building an "RER" tunnel before we have RER seems odd . . . Only in North America would it be suggested that you need more than four tracks to handle the traffic on this corridor for decades, we don't need more tracks folks, we need better operations and planning. There's also no way you are...

The local density is mostly irrelevant, which is why stations like Warden and York Mills get more pax than stations like Osgoode or Wellesley

Because this was put u/c before the standards were out - I also think MiWay was responsible for the fit-out. Running GO transit wasn't Metrolinx' choice nor does it really make sense. Metrolinx pushing for wayfinding integration and combined bus procurements along with a pretty long list of...