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Buses can easily be rerouted. Rails are a more permanent thing, and denote a higher quality service. Thus, developers are more likely to build around them. This is what I always hear, at least, and it makes sense to me.

Man, I would have loved to have seen you guys back in 1949: "What? You're planning a seperate streetcar transferway for Bloor Station? Are you insane!? There will be a subway there only 12 years after the station opens! Just keep the status quo in the meantime." Or maybe back in the early...

The same type of people who would take a bus from York Region to Finch Station and then the subway downtown every day. The massive bus congestion on Yonge north of Finch shows that a lot of such people exist. Even though GO is faster, the higher fare and less flexibility than local transit keeps...

The TTC asked this same question during the planning for the Sheppard LRT. I believe the difference between 800 metre spacing and 400 metre spacing was something like seven minutes of travel time. I think that would probably stand true for 500 m vs. 1000 m as well. Providing a good local service...

Because tourists and visitors to the city don't exist, right?

Or better yet, just hold everyone to the same standard to start with, which has been my point all along.

So this means that, despite people of all ages causing problems on public transit, only the young ones should be singled out? And people wonder why so many law-abiding teenagers are bitter about how adults treat them?

I agree. I'm seventeen, and I never cause a problem for the bus driver or passengers. Why should I be singled out as a problem? I've seen thirty year old men pitch a fit over an invalid fare ("What do you mean I can't use a three day old transfer!"), soccer moms curse out other people in...

Now that is interesting, especially this Leslie Street Line on there. It looks like it'd have intercepted the Bloor-Danforth at Donlands, then headed straight up to just past Eglinton. Judging from the map, it'd have then headed north-east along the rail corridor to at least Victoria Park and...

Because you get the exact same costs as subway tunnel construction with a more expensive technology that can handle less riders?

On the topic of ticket elimination, has it been established yet if ticket vendors will be selling tokens? It would really suck if you had a bus-only commute and had to constantly go out of your way to a subway station in order to get fares.

Right. The TTC, famous for taking years to develop anything, will manage to completely implement a smart card system in six months. Unlikely in the extreme.

The subway isn't going to be operational for at least another seven or so years. The busway is an interim measure. As you can see from the diagram, it's not like it'll cease being useful the second the subway opens either.

Fess up: how many crack pipes have you gone through in the past few hours? Subway service in Toronto is excellent. I have never waited more than five or six minutes for a train, delays are infrequent, and transfers are nearly seamless. If Toronto fits your definition of shitty service, what...

That map follows the exact route of the proposal. Look at how tight some of the turns downtown are. The first generation ICTS cars wouldn't have been able to handle those. Yes, I think it's a good thing that we passed up true rapid transit in the 1980s. That line would have become our main...

Am I the only person here who thinks he was just making two cheap puns about rail-based transit? Nobody can conceivably think "Yep, one derailment will stop a multimillion dollar plan."

I thought this as well when I read his post, but upon thinking about it, why not? Changing the gauge to match Toronto's wouldn't add very much to the capital cost and, even though it seems unbelievably unlikely for Hamilton and Toronto to be LRT connected any time soon, who knows what the future...

http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/447366 All I can say is this: again!? Has someone suddenly placed a curse upon the streetcar system? It's been less than two weeks since that Bay and Dundas accident, I certainly didn't expect to see another in that short a time period. EDIT: There's a...

http://maps.google.ca/maps/ms?hl=en&gl=ca&ie=UTF8&oe=UTF8&msa=0&msid=100511171765378604817.000450380e699e0f7ebf5&ll=43.244015,-79.862537&spn=0.036013,0.088921&t=h&z=14 In the early 1980s, as the TTC was being persuaded to use ICTS for the SRT, the Ontario government offered the technology to...

Yeah, I noticed that too. That was one slow moving fire truck. Honestly, I think the speed the truck was going at probably negated any time savings created by the lack of traffic.