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TO BE FAIR . . . YRT doesn't really give York Region much transit in their "area" either . . .

They were 100% talked about and advertised as LRT, whether or not they are isn't the point. Torontonians got a taste of "LRT" and there were lots of issues. Mihevic for one 1) Spadina is super unreliable headway wise, despite the dedicated ROW I used if for years, its also painfully slow, I...

In an ideal world maybe, but when a bus gets gets into an accident the impact is pretty minimal, its gonna be brutal on Eglinton when a train gets into an accident. This would be terrible, having to press a button isn't great for so called rapid transit

Stouffville and Barrie are both hourly atm, not half hourly. Maybe this specific plan isn't a net benefit but I must say I find it hilarious how we act like the environmental benefit on the whole from RER is not clear on every one of these assessments. Obviously where it makes sense local...

Metrolinx' predictions here are simply bad, there's no better way to put it. Need evidence of their history of bad ridership predictions? Look at the UP Express on opening . . . Eglinton is a major corridor, its going to be super busy from day one.

Not because its LRT but because of careless. The "industry" journalists were probably reading the same badly translated press releases.

Tunneling is usually not the costly part, its the stations.

When is the fourth track actually going in?

If we are *honest* Sheppard doesn't get used as much as it could because its super short . . . if it was longer it would probably carry significantly more people . . . Ah yes - Toronto should build "slow", "inflexible", "low capacity" transit because thats what we need when we are already...

The problem is the Finch West LRT won't be substantially faster than the existing bus, which seems like a weird thing to spend a ton of money on.

Steve often talks about how various people have made LRT look bad, but truth be told when the St. Clair and Spadina "LRTs" were built we were promised fast and frequent service (some councilors said it would be comparable to a subway in speed), now if you have ever taken these lines you know how...

The Eglinton Line's final buildout capacity is 15,000 ppdph, the same as the Canada Line. This has been well known for years. Its also pretty clear that ridership is being underestimated. 5500 ppdph is not much. This is likely due to the limited frequency the line can achieve as the vehicles...

Everyone gives the Canada Line a hard time for its short cars while not looking at what actually matters (capacity) meanwhile we build a half underground half above ground tramway for nearly twice the price in Toronto - with platforms twice as long and the capacity is . . . the same.

Irrespective of my disagreement RE capacity, I want to question this "great" plan. The old plan lacked: - Phase one build West of Osgoode and North of Bloor serving super fast growing Downtown Communities, and lower income transit starved Northern Communities - Cross platform transfers to GO...

The Canada Line does not really have "engineering flaws". The line is safe and effectively moved around 150,000 people per day pre pandemic. With its ultimate capacity still being around twice what it was pre pandemic (more frequency and slightly longer trains can be used) we could easily see...

Not sure what you mean RE ECLRT I think Honolulu's trains are probably more comparable given they more closely match the size of the proposed trains. Basically any model can be made catenary powered. They say in the PDBC that the capability will be there they just won't use it out of the...

Oh for sure, a massively wide street like Hurontario is not going to be an attractive streetscape LRT or not - it's simply designed to be a major car corridor. Theres lots of width so a median elevated line like what they are doing in Montreal makes a ton of sense. As was mentioned, most of the...

I never said sparsely populated, I said the density is sparse. You have a few towers and then a lot of space, and repeat. As someone else mentioned, something like the Canada Line which has probably about 2x the capacity of the HLRT seems more appropriate. The Cambie Corridor in Vancouver 100%...

I think there will be some changes in various (GO) station names around the opening of the Crosstown, that's usually when most things get shifted around.

There is as was mentioned the transitway heading to Peel from Eglinton, there is also BRT in various stages along Highway 7 to Brampton and along Dundas to Miss. the real problem is that these require transfers. They definitely should have serviceable frequencies, but they can't serve longer...