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A thought... Might the eventual route of the GO Niagara line go from Niagara Falls to... Kitchener? That would make it the first GO-train line that does not go through Union. GO could start seeding the Hamilton-Kitchener route with buses. They could come in to West Harbour to meet the Niagara...

Minor note from Union: while waiting for my train to Oshawa, I noticed that the lower level under the new concourse has an additional passageway visible!

Finally! Departure info from different carriers in the same place! This is one of the problems I have with interchange places like the Newmarket bus terminal, where the YRT info is on one screen, and GO is on another. Technical writer nitpick: centre is inconsistently spelled.

And if you're going to be digging down and excavating a large station box, isn't it cheaper to have the box walls go all the way up to grade, leaving a large volume open, rather than putting in a strong, expensive roof and backfilling? I seem to remember reading that in relation to some of...

Minor note... Just now, I saw one of the new cab cars leading a westbound train out of Oshawa. I just glimpsed it as I was standing by the door of the easternmost car of my arriving train (to minimize the walk to my bus), and because it was pulling out, we passed it at some speed.

Oftentimes I take GO route 88 from Peterborough before the Peterborough terminal ticket booth opens. At this time, people must pay the driver. I have discovered that it's faster to simply hand the driver a $20 and ask that it be put on my Presto card, than ask for a ticket to wherever and the...

I assume it means you tap every time you change vehicle, which means that people are going to have to tap in fare-paid zones when entering the subway. If not, and you tap only upon paying your fare, they'd almost have to use timed transfers.

So that means they have a Presto device in the passage between the Union streetcar loop and the subway?

I think this is going to be in the place of the EMCO plumbing-supplies (?) company just south of the college-owned residences on the west side of Simcoe.

Cool! I think that's the first time I've seen a train all in the new livery. Makes me wonder why they don't do that more often, instead of awkwardly mixing the new cars in among the old.

Do concrete ties last longer than wooden ones?

Hmm. So they took it as far as Silver Dart Dr. I was wondering how it would connect to Terminal One.

Was any work ever done on how the Eglinton/Crosstown line would reach the airport?

Or they're branching off east of the existing Oshawa station. Might be a good time to watch for property acquisition or demolition around there.

The Blue Route is that south exit from the Bay concourse that leads (or led) directly to the ACC. The south part was painted blue as part of the ACC sports theme.

I passed through there around noon--transferring from Lakeshore East to Barrie line (yay for weekend Barrie-line trains!)--and was dismayed to find no stores open in the York concourse. I thought they were going to transfer the stores over, or at least install equivalents, and there was nothing...

It looks good so far! It needs to plug into the PATH both northwards and southwards. Maybe we can get moving on that northern exit to Dundas station.

Say, in that last pic, are they preparing to paint the diagonal crosswalks all the way across the intersection at Yonge and Bloor?

Isn't there one of those curving dashed lines to guide drivers from Spadina onto QQ East?

And another thing about Pearson... Is it even *possible* to walk or ride a bike to the terminals? I know there was a walkway off Airport Road that led to steps and a stop for the inter-terminal buses, but it was closed for construction when I went by there a few days ago, and there seemed to be...