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Yeah, this transitway has always seemed pretty crazy to me. There are FAR better uses of money out there. I don't recall ever seeing the 407 slow down below 110 in the few lanes towards the right, except for during a very severe snowstorm or accident. I don't see the transitway providing a...

Thanks for drawing attention to that. I had read this blog post but somehow missed that detail! About time.

I don't believe the AODA requires more than one entrance of any station to be accessible--correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the majority of stations with more than one street level entrance only have (or are slated to have) one accessible entrance. I also don't believe that it contains any...

Difficult as it may supposedly be to make Spadina accessible (certainly I don't think it's any more difficult than many of the other stations), I don't believe the AODA would be satisfied by telling patrons to ride the 127 from Kendal/Lowther to the Bloor side of the station and transfer at St...

True, though my point on that subject was regarding major transfer stations. Islington was a LOT busier with TTC+MiWay buses combined. Islington being inaccessible was a problem for many more people back when MiWay ran what seems to be a stunning 16 routes there per...

Indeed! Just out of curiosity I looked at the Subway Map here http://ttc.ca/Subway/interactive_map/interactive_map.jsp which seems to be up-to-date (e.g. Runnymede) except for Wilson at the time of this post, and wow! Finally, the map of accessible stations is respectable. It used to be awful to...

The crossings are being grade-separated to support AD2W, and especially future every-15-minute, service. It is not practical for various reasons to have that much service running at grade. This was, as far as I know, always the plan for implementing RER and not borne from any particular public...

Yes, there will be the intercity buses (some or all out of: TOK formerly Can-Ar, Ontario Northland, Greyhound, and Megabus), but I think people are also forgetting that with GO RER, a lot of the GO buses that currently serve Union will no longer exist or will run only in very odd hours (early...

Yes, I've had the same opinion driving through it. Major Mack to Elgin Mills has been finished, including repaving all of the lanes and putting them back to full widths as opposed to narrow construction widths, since mid or late 2019 if memory serves (I used to commute that way). Elgin Mills to...

It's about time. While not perfect, this new wayfinding looks WAY better than the current garbage: https://blog.metrolinx.com/2020/08/13/spelling-out-change-at-an-iconic-hub-new-ways-of-finding-your-way-around-torontos-union-station-use-interesting-research-on-how-people-navigate-transit-systems/

Metrolinx has posted a timelapse video of the Highway 400 bridge replacements over Finch Ave. W from last month: https://blog.metrolinx.com/2020/07/20/new-timelapse-video-captures-entire-highway-400-bridge-lift-for-finch-west-lrt-project/

How exactly do you find them "unorganized", given that there's a piece of private property in the way of the tunnel that refused to allow them to build one? Do you know how long expropriation takes, or how disadvantageous it can be financially for the government as opposed to arriving at a...

There would probably be an insanely high level of demand requiring many huge stations, and you'd basically need a team onsite every day during the summer rebalancing bikes between them. Or you could just have one cluster of locations in one single area of the island to solve that problem, but...

Ah, that would make a LOT more sense! I was thinking of it as a "110 km/h pilot" not an "increase limit by 10 km/h pilot". I'd love to see Highway 7 between Peterborough and Ottawa increased to 90 too; it used to be a bit of a stressful drive with crazy passing, but there are a lot of new...

Per https://www.ontario.ca/page/consultation-speed-limits-ontario-highways The pilot on the above highways for the 110 limit started September 26th 2019 and will run for 2 years The Ministry of Transportation is also planning to announce the opening of a fourth pilot location in northern...

I hate to discourage a new member from posting or seem hostile, but I really can't think of an occasion I've seen where this could be more warranted:

Similar cards (where balance and transaction info is stored primarily on the card as the authoritative copy, then synced to/from readers for changes with the central system) e.g. Suica in Japan are Apple Pay-compatible through migrating the card to the iPhone and invalidating the physical card...

Hourly two-way service will go to Barrie, it's the 15-minute service that will terminate at Aurora.

I still find the time it takes at Billy Bishop to get from the check-in area to the gate is FAR shorter than at Pearson, at most times. Customs lineups when returning from the US too, though I have a Nexus card so I rarely have to wait even at Pearson. As for travel time from home to gate, I...

How would that solve the problem? It would only make the problem much worse when drivers see a bunch of westbound lanes, then say oh look, there are some lanes immediately south of those, they must be the eastbound lanes. This is exactly what happens from drivers turning onto eastbound QQ from...