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Like how you can't get between Queens and the Bronx without going through Manhattan?

In some cases, "transit priority" doesn't mean much. I've seen the "transit priority" at say College and Beverly in action. Basically, it holds the light green until hypothetically the streetcar is done loading and can pass through. (you can tell this is activated because the ped signal...

It's not necessarily gentrification. The old City of York has been losing population as well, and there are few areas within it that could be claimed "gentrified". It's shifting demographics as much as anything eslse. Household sizes are slowly dropping as kids move out into condos downtown...

Something that seems to escape subway fans. The high average speed is great if both origin and destination lie close to a stop. Otherwise, not so much. I'm sure there is an optimal solution to this, probably easy to calculate (off the top of my mind I can dash off a simple solution in a...

Those numbers have to be taken with a grain of salt though, where you draw the boundaries matters a great deal. The urban areas of suburban Vancouver easily approach the overall density for Toronto (Richmond is 180,000 on 130km^2, or 1700/km^2. Yet 40% of that land is off limits for development...

Much as Toronto wants to be like New York and distance itself from its Canadian roots, there are comparisons to be had between cities. Calgary and Toronto are more alike than one would believe. They're both way more urban than their size indicates. For example, despite the lack of suburban...

Because it's going to proceed, no matter what the mayor thinks... particularly the tunnelled bit of Eglinton, which is not a direct casualty of Ford's streetcar phobia. I commented earlier that Metrolinx might be delaying to get enough contracts such that the "sunk costs" are too high to...

Why is this relevant? Calgary is a great model for LRT, and we should pay attention. Is it capacity? The C-train once expanded to 4 car trains has higher functional capacity than the Sheppard line does, and in fact if operated correctly has a functional capacity approaching anything in Toronto...

The lack of transit investment is a bit deceptive though. GO has been sneaking a lot of improvements in (31m pax in 1995, 44M pax in 2003, 55m in '09), and there was "spare" capacity on the subways that has since been mostly absorbed. When you look at the data, way more people are commuting into...

They apparently want to install crossovers in the future at King station and south of St Clair station as well. These will be separate shutdowns in the future. There used to be crossovers in these locations, but they were removed to save on maintenance. For example, the College and King...

There's nothing to report other than the re-jigged Transit city plan has been delayed. Take from that what you will, though the some of the implications are pretty obvious - esp. WRT Sheppard vs Eglinton.

510 feel slow because it spends so much time stopped at red lights and farside stops. It makes up for it because it runs between stops so quickly without traffic in the way. Signal priority would gain so much for this route. Signal priority and alldoor loading would probably cut 5 minutes off...

Canada line = being promised solid wood floors for cheap and getting printed chipboard laminate. Dug up Cambie when they promised tunneling, platforms too short with extensions not roughed in, single-track termini and almost a km of the approach in Richmond single-tracked limit headways. P3 is...

I'm not sure Thomson should have been dismissed as bluntly as she was. She had ideas, even if some of them were unlikely having an idea person on your staff can be an incredible asset. I kind of wonder though, if a major contract signed before the election kicks in sometime in the next...

The election was not about transit. The election was about the "gravy train" and a wave of anti-incumbency. THe only reason transit came up at all was because somebody told Ford that maybe he should talk about it. Re: Metrolinx. Eglinton is still on the table. That much is almost guaranteed...

I'm wondering more and more if Rob has a public speaking phobia. It would explain an awful lot, why so much is delegated to Doug, why his media appearances have always been so awkward, and why he's known mostly for his outbursts - when his anger overrides his fear. Hell, it even explains why Don...

Does this really surprise anyone though? I mean... "war on the car" and all that? This city has to be the most heavily urbanized autocentric city on the planet.

According to the budget, the TTC made $15M from all advertising last year. Including vehicle wraps and "station domination". How much they'd "rake in" from the screens would not be a huge quantity. A few million dollars. Unfortunately our system is so cash strapped that that <1% makes a huge...

There's nothing wrong with the current Eg West station. Those slivers of land are not desireable for development and not worth much. If anything I would use a bit of the land to add a few more turn lanes to the Allen intersection, but the rest is not worth much. Parking, maybe. Re...

lol, never been to Regina before a Riders game, I see :P I think something else NFL supporters don't think about is that it is kind of a slap in the face of Canadians elsewhere in the country. Toronto already has a reputation for being "too good for Canada" and when they root for an American...