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After seeing firsthand the effort K-W put into their (Alberta-style) LRT, it really breaks my heart to see the future streetcar operation on Eglinton east of Don Mills (not to mention the crucial Leslie intersection any further). Might as well just renumber Line 5 east of Laird the ”534”...

Much better than what was there before, but I’m still wondering since this is permanent now, why waste money on these platforms, instead of properly extending the sidewalk. Also, why replicate the poor Roncesvalles design where the bike lane conflicts so much with passengers, instead of having...

I've been following this forum for over a decade now, and it's exactly this kind of rhetoric that does nothing but divide this city further between downtown (Metro), and the suburbs. Your "automobile gods" crap is getting so tiresome, and provides nothing constructive to this forum. Btw, I do...

I’m wondering, what will the TTC do when issuing transfers for cash fares on buses, once legacy fare media is eliminated? The only options I see are eliminating onboard cash fares altogether, installing TVMs, or having the driver risk getting robbed over a stack of paper Presto tickets...

Seriously, implement free tap-out at readers at the gates at York U for transferring GO passengers from Downsview Park and Hwy 407 Stns. (and YRT and Zum, but I won’t go there now). I find it hard to believe that we’re still bickering over such small stuff in a region of close to 6 million. It...

Clearly this person has never used the C-Train in Calgary, where pushing a button is the norm. Would that make them "un-Canadian"... It's getting rather ridiculous having the driver open every door at a stop. If this is truly about a learning curve with passengers, put an instruction sticker...

An update on the cladding work progressing on the south tower. Photo taken today around noon.

Here’s a picture from this afternoon of the monstrosity at Yonge-Dundas. Notice the concrete on the right-most column. This whole addition looks like shit.

I've been thinking about this for quite some time... each terminal station has two tail tracks. Would there be much benefit from changing the current practice at terminals to unloading on the outbound platform, pulling into a tail track, and then pulling into the inbound platform to load the...

Same situation in Sudbury. The ON terminal there is rather pathetic. Unlike NB though, there is a city bus stop right beside the station for a pretty frequent route (the 002 Second Avenue bus), or you can walk ten minutes on the gravel shoulder of the road for another bus (401 Barry Downe), but...

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This is so true... that long walk between the 84/196 (soon to be 84E) is really a discouragement for using that station for travel other than along the Yonge subway. For example, I frequently take the York Mills bus and transfer to the Wilson bus/Rocket because of the much shorter walk. With...

Luckily I use NextBus, as unreliable as it can be at times. I live along a twice hourly route in TO. However, after living on the outskirts of Sudbury, where a bus comes every 2-3 hours, I have nothing to complain about. (Toronto feels like heaven after that.) I always ensure I'm at the stop...

Agreed. Why would they not just do this the next day, when the line actually opens. I'd have rather had an Open House for the emergency exits, that we will hopefully never have to see otherwise. Also, I forget who mentioned it before on this forum, but why not re-number the Wilson Rocket as...

Unfortunately this is the case, I do understand that. I should've been clearer. My beef isn't with the drivers doing this, but rather with TTC management, and their ineptitude to schedule services properly. Nonetheless, after a long day at work, I just want to get home. Passengers (and drivers)...

TransitBart really said it best. It is absurd that the TTC hasn't dedicated certain gates for entry or exit only, specifically at busier stations/entrances. I also feel it was a big mistake not to retain the collectors booth at certain busy downtown stations. Tourist-heavy stations like Dundas...

Anyone happen to know what the hell was going on around noon today on the Sheppard Line. This had to be my most annoying experience ever over my twelve years of using the line regularly. It was an over ten minute wait for a westbound train at Leslie. In that time three trains went eastbound...

Fare gate installation has commenced at the Sheppard-Yonge Hullmark entrance. Photos taken on Friday.

As much as I appreciate green space in the city, I feel the space facing the "V" at the entrance to York U station is seriously a missed opportunity. This green space should instead have been built as a set of concrete steps - a place for students to congregate, or just have lunch during the...

I would expect so... considering that old street name signs are auctioned. With some of those turnstiles being 60+ years old, they could fetch quite a bit of cash. Would love to hear some information about the city's official intentions with these... I'm also interested in hearing about other...