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What the hell are you talking about? Anybody who has a permanent address pays taxes, whether it's directly or indirectly. Renters pay taxes bundled into their monthly rent payment.

I don't know why everyone seems to think we were "blinded" by a low-ball bid from Bombardier, and that we should have known they'd screw it up. They've been mostly painlessly producing our transit vehicles at that factory for decades, how could we have possibly had anything but similar...

How frequently does this happen abroad?

Is there a chance the track could bend?

It takes a lot of time to design complex underground stations. Construction has begun on the only one that has actually advanced well beyond 30% design (Keele).

Keele was the "prototype" station. It's much further along in its development than the rest of the stations, which have just completed or are working towards 30% submissions.

Many high quality institutions have advertised on the subway. York U had a campaign last year or the year before, including a poster featuring Jen Keesmaat, a York alumnus. I think Ryerson, my alma mater, has also had ads on the subway, and maybe I'm mis-remembering, but U of T had something...

I first saw Steve Munro say this, but after moving to a location where I use the University line daily, I couldn't agree more... The Western Relief Line is already built - the University subway. After 2 years commuting on the Yonge line, the University line feels essentially empty. Of course...

If you were short turned, and you're just getting on the next streetcar on the same route, wouldn't you just not tap? Would the fare shown on your Presto card not be valid any more? Or does the original tap indicate which vehicle it is on?

Yeah, I thought it was something like that. That should help make up for the cost of fare evasion officers, which I neglected in my post above. Though, those costs can be recouped too by not needing staff collecting fares at various other points in the system (which will come along when Presto...

So this makes for an easy expected value calculation. 3.2% = 1 in 31.25 chance at being inspected At $3.25 fares, the penalty for being caught without POP would need to be at least $101.56 for the transit agency to expect to "break even" on POP - That is, fare evasion losses = fine revenue. At...

Well, literally nobody is going to do that for a "local" trip. If the stations are spaced closely enough, then it'll be fine. It'll be interesting to see what happens west of University. I'm pretty sure Queen could support a subway all the way to at least Roncy, but almost all of the lines we...

I'm not sure you wouldn't still want or even need surface transit along whatever short(ish) stretch of Queen or King gets a handful of subway stations, likely not as closely spaced as Yonge or Bloor stations.

For whatever it's worth, Brad Ross told me on Twitter that the St. Clair "pilot" was ending with the POP/Presto launch. Whether this is actually true is another matter.

Nobody WANTS to commute. It's like the #1 thing people complain about on a regular basis. The reality is that it's not that easy to live close to work. Offices concentrated where housing is expensive, or perhaps unsuitable for bigger families. One partner works downtown while the other...

Regardless of whether a subway should have been built there or not, Vaughan does have a substantial and ambitious plan to capitalize off of it, and the Hwy 7 transitway, and build a dense commercial and residential core. It's foolish to think this will be built out in just a few years, it's a...

But those people writing it off as a business expense would be writing off a taxi or limo or whatever else they have to take anyways. Doubt there's a noticeable negative effect in that regard.

You guys understand boats have to go under that, right? It's not designed to be steep for vanity.