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These silly screens will yield pennies on the dollar for the TTC's budget. Seriously, their entire advertising income is a few tens of millions of dollars out of a billion dllar budget. They'll end up broken and never replaced.

If you look at the documents, the Sheppard subway was really last mentioned in teh Rapid Transit expansion study. After that it quietly fell off the radar. Miller had a mandate, a larger one percentagewise than Ford did, to build LRTs. It's what the people wanted.

Closer, yes, but more complex. In particular although there is a rail corridor between Brampton and Orangeville, it's steep and winding and will be slow for passenger service. Like, very slow. Additionally, because of a lack of rail connections, you actually have to run the service through...

Cityplace has added many thousands of residents, but they seem to be mostly going south. The northbound stop at Bremner is not a lot busier than the one at Dundas. What I think has happened is that previously, people would go east to the subway, presumably on a streetcar, to avoid the...

As a born-and-raised Vancouverite, I would respectfully disagree with this. The new generation cars are not any better, they still get confused by snowflakes and have to be driven manually when it snows, and reaction and power rail fouling is an artefact of the track design itself. ICTS is one...

As opposed to building the Eglinton line, a de facto subway, where the subway demand exists today?

I am kind of hoping that the uproar over the fare hike thing might have convinced him that Joe Everyman relies just as much on the TTC as the underclass.

But we know development is not subway dependant; near the mouth of the Humber, Windermere, Cityplace, even the suburban nodes such as Mississauga, Richmond Hill, and Brampton, all developed with surface transit. Additionally, there are enough development sites near existing subways to keep...

The stuff on Sheppard is as much a factor of zoning as anything else. If you zone a site that's currently suburban strip malls and forward-lotted bungalows so you can build 30 storey condos, they will. Development land out there is dirt cheap relative to closer in locations; pure profit. Buyers...

Vancouver is a second, possibly third tier world city with limited local economic development (there's a reason I moved to Toronto), very high costs of living, and a not particularly pleasant climate. If you're an international investor looking for a certain lifestyle, why would you pick...

Vancouver's a strange beast. The Chinese do drive the local market, but they're also not a permanent force. When the Hong Kong handover went peacefully, and then shortly after that the Asian Market crisis, the Lower Mainland's house prices corrected by 25% virtually overnight. The same will...

The NFL thing is just another manifestation of the World Class self-affirmation syndrome... trying to compare Toronto to a major American city, you gotta have the NFL team. Ford's vision of World Class appears to be very American, but he's doing the exact same thing. I doubt the interest is...

Interest rates are a gigantic question mark. A very large proportion of the recent economic "rebound" was driven by money spun off the real estate bounceback. If it recorrects, either intrinsically due to stricter rules or higher rates, or for extrinsic factors (ie, cyclical variations...

The thing to remember is that it's an either-or situation. We don't have money for both. Which one would have louder public support? Almost certainly Eglinton. a) The population distribution puts more people being served by Eglinton than Sheppard. b) The peri-downtown population at least...

THe acceleration is irrelevant if they run them as they do now and wait til the train clears the station to accelerate all the way.

Call me cynical but the advantage to LIM motors is that the company that makes vehicles containing them happens to have Ontario voters in it.

To be honest, the only reason the streetcars are safe is because the capital costs for the yards etc are all hidden deeper in the budget documents than the mayor's attention span...

The question that that raises, of course, is if you park a utility truck Bennett Buggy conversion in Scarborough, do you come back the next morning to find your horse covered in graffitti?

For some reason I am reminded of those incidents, the ones where you make a wrong turn somewhere and instead of stopping and asking for help, you just keep driving and hope that it'll work out.

Which once again comes back to the "why the hell does LRT cost 100mil/km in Toronto anyways" question, considering St Clair was about 20 and Calgary's extensions (largely grade-separated!) are somewhere around 30. Probably the same reason why subways cost triple here as well.