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Any chance at a direct link to Bessarion subway station?

I mean, I want to agree, but having lived for many years in the 905 and commuted by TTC and GO for much of it -- we've since been able to afford the city core -- it's hard for me to believe that that's very do-able. The density just isn't there, and in a way that goes beyond the older inner...

Totally agree. I think that this is at the centre of the transit ethos for a lot of us. But, on that note, let me just register that GO-subway-LRT integration -- iow, dedicated-ROW transit -- is still nutty in a lot of ways: Physically: the years-old promise to physically integrate...

I live south of Christie Pits, at Harbord, and am forever running errands between Ossington and Spadina. Hopping on the Bloor line or the Harbord or Ossington buses or College car would speed a ton of my errands -- but the fee barrier gets me. Nor can I really justify a Metropass for those...

Apologies if already raised (or if crazy), but any discussion of southening the Jane LRT down to the Waterfront Transit Reset RER area (South Kingsway)?

Definitely needs the GO RH line. In my view, dedicated-ROW lines belong there, too -- St. Clair streetcar, Viva rapidway buses, and so on.

I mean, I live south of Christie Pits. I'm totally excited to be able to head west to Lansdowne (via Bloor-Danforth), then transfer northbound to the Eglinton Crosstown (via GO Barrie), or keep ongoing to York University. Call those short trips or long trips, but I don't at all understand how...

Well, hang on a sec. I don't think you can say that the RH line doesn't go where people want to. It's a north-south line connecting Leslie-Finch, Leslie-Sheppard, Wynford-Eglinton (future), and Union station. The Finch East, Sheppard East, and Eglinton routes are all extremely busy routes...

Hey, I was thinking the names of the Lakeshore GO lines are somewhat unique in that they refer to the route, not the terminus. And I was thinking that more of that would help foster understanding that GO can play a useful role in intra-Toronto and intra-416 transport, not just exurbs<-->core...

+1. We talk about building a DRL from whole cloth, yet the powers that be won't scrape together the will to 100-percent-discount TTC-to-GO transfers, or to build the connective tissue to make these transfers work? Either they want to begin offloading traffic from the Yonge line or they don't...

Agreed, but I'm kind of thinking to start upstream from there. Making GO transit part of the 416 TTC zone (no additional fare) would surely drive demand and raise questions as to why the heck noone bit down on the physical relocation. The more people making that trek (because it's now at no...

It's been talked about a million times before, I'm sure, but if we're going to improve GO RER service to North York (and the rest of the 416) -- which is surely a good idea, insofar as the tracks are already there -- I truly don't understand why we can't find a solution so that there is no extra...

We moved downtown from York Region about a year ago. First, you are right that lots of folks in YR are there, not because they are looking for a cheaper house in the GTA and are willing to live further, but because they are exactly where they want to be. The location is not a compromise, it is...

By the way, do we know anything about when decisions on (or the opening of) Eglinton Crosstown (Caledonia right?), St. Clair streetcar, and Bloor subway (Lansdowne?) connecting stations is expected? The latest round of stuffed-Yonge-line articles has me wondering about a Bloor connection in...

If they remove the copper and leave only the fibre, then they don't have to wholesale that network access to TekSavvy et al. unless your condo board requires it contractually. That will change in the future, but not anytime soon.

+1.

This. I'm all for the long-fabled North Yonge extension, but in the real world, isn't it more achievable to spend the money on north-south routes that would offload the Yonge line? Significantly increase the frequency, and significantly increase the physical and fare connectivity to the TTC...

How about cafés and gyms?

Is the Sheppard LRT so badly needed that it has to come first? I don't understand why so many political wars are being fought. Why not do the things that are widely agreed on -- Eglinton-Scarborough Crosstown LRT and maybe, I'd lke to think, LRT-izing GO, if it was seriously put on the table...

For. On 400-series highways. I would extend it as broadly as possible, provided it was (a) phased in -- that is, announced well before it was implemented, to allow people to make informed real estate choices; (b) a congestion-based charge, so that areas of 400-series highways where there...