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Even if they cut many programs, there will not be $750 million in savings, unless they gut capital spending. I expect 2012 will bring a 10%+ tax hike.

Eglinton might actually be a better transfer point than Bloor-yonge anyways, we're designing it from scratch and have quite a bit more space to play around with. In fact diverting people off BD would probably remove the need to remodel Bloor-Yonge, freeing up however many millions of dollars for...

mine are bold. With respect to the charge that my observation of "precipitous decline" is indicative of my lack of familiarity with reality, I would first observe that one man's reality is another's fantasy. Therefore, it may well be that the Toronto some people exprerienced during Miller's...

Immigration is hugely beneficial. Between subreplacement fertility, and Ontario's net loss of population to other provinces, Toronto would quickly get hollowed out were it not for significant immigration. Do we take on too many? Maybe. Maybe not. The total numbers are appropriate for Canada...

Re: why not west of Jane? The LRTs are not dead. They are merely deferred until a more LRT friendly administration comes back into power. Don't forget Finch and Eglinton west of Jane were not to be started for 5 years anyways. Sheppard is a question mark - I suspect we'll see the LRT...

There are stll trains that still say "summerhill" as two words and "glen caren". You can schedule this "spadeena" rectification for some time in 2016. By the way, Spa dee nah is apparently a correct pronunciation of Spadina Rd, north of Bloor where the station lies, it is not technically...

The big difference between the 400 extensions and the 401 extension is that the Windsor stretch is running through an urban area and involves a swath of mass expropriations (compare the Flash map to google maps of the area!) and other issues. It might be technically more difficult to blast it...

Yes, it's much more popular in the West, especially in the Prairies. The same 16-million argument can be twisted the other way. There were 7.3 million people that watched the Superbowl in Canada, a record. This means that somewhere north of 26 million Canadians don't care about NFL enough to...

If they ARE going to move towards fare integration, or smart cards, or increasing use of PoP as on the downtown streetcars and/or LRTs if built, then why are we building 2 bus terminals at Steeles West? Depending on timeline the redundant terminal will be obsolete very quickly after it's built...

It's true. What's really sad is that the electorate seems to fail to recognize we're an overwhelmingly urban nation. It comes down to the "Rob Ford" factor again; in aself- recognized urban nation penny-pinching at the expense of our cities would never stand. If the electorate would...

I don't know where Calgary came from. Its prices are on par with Toronto's and incomes are much higher. Toronto is far bigger. On the other hand, Calgary's prices are down 15% already and dropping fast. Same as Edmonton. They never had the 09-10 recovery Vancouver and Toronto did, it was...

On the garbage, how many companies are actually qualified to take on what is probably one of the largest garbage contracts in North America? Waste Management, and the cost of keeping it in-house? This contract is almost an order of magnitude larger than Doug Holyday's heroic past efforts. What...

Yes, we can spend precious dollars duplicating an existing rapid transit connection. Or we can spend them actually expanding the network. VCC should be an LRT extension, past YorkU the first phase of an eventual LRT network that replaces the current VIVA system, but we have what we have.

I wonder if the accomodation for the articulation has increased "swing" enough to make fitting through the tunnels a bit sketchy. The technical drawings do indicate the nose end overhangs quite a bit further on the Rockets than the older cars, 8 inches or so. Although that doesn't sound like...

Because the Bathurst hill, and the portals to underground loops, are far steeper than off-the-shelf LRT vehicles can handle particularly if one vehicle has to push a disabled one bnack to the yard. This is not a hypothetical problem; there is a reason why they don't run the articulated...

Unless, of course, BBD has already spent money on engineering and tooling to build LRT vehicles for Toronto.... it was a huge order and they would have moved almost immediately on engineering and preliminary tooling, perhaps some early prototyping has already occured. Certainly arranging space...

One of those useful things for stuff like this is the historical atlas collection at McGill: http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/Countyatlas/SearchMapframes.php Here's a historical map of York township. http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/Countyatlas/images/maps/townshipmaps/yor-m-york-n.jpg It is...

I kind of get the feeling that that's what they're trying to do... the RH/downtown capacity issue is a political carrot and inevitably reconfiguring bloor-yonge will be a long, messy project. Look at the PITA factor for putting in a couple track switches on the Yonge line!

Trip planner? I might have gotten lucky and done the query at a time when the connections meshed perfectly, because when they don't ... 38 mins Kennedy to St George + 20 mins to Downsview (from travel time chart) + 15 minutes on the bus = 73.

Today the trip from STC to York is scheduled to take 66 minutes if you take the BD across, and somewhere between 55-65 minutes if you go the northern route. Obviously each transfer adds significant variations, and I think most people would tend to take the southern route to avoid the variations...