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If it was the superior choice then one of these bidders would propose it. If a company can make a competitive bid with hydrogen or battery, they will. If nobody proposes hydrogen or battery, we'll know that no private companies thought it was a better idea. Forcing companies to make...

Battery trains still require major infrastructure investments (as you said, they need catenary in stations to charge). It's not like you can just buy battery trains and roll them out next year. They also require an expensive wholesale replacement of the entire fleet in order to be rolled out. As...

A new station has appeared on Sterling Road, outside MOCA.

This is why I think the city should have insisted that there be provision for a future loop in the redevelopment of the south-west corner of Bathurst and Eglinton. You don't have to ever use it if it doesn't make sense, but if you want it one day it's there.

Maybe York could subsidize it, if the PRESTO infrastructure allowed for it. I'm sure they could work out a deal with the TTC, given that it's basically free money for unused capacity from the TTC's perspective. The problem at the moment isn't a money issue, it's an infrastructure issue. Even if...

Because that would amount to a longer commute with a $1.50 fare hike on top of that for York U students arriving by GO train. UofT students are not at risk of any nearby stations closing. And it comes at zero cost to anyone and uses capacity that will likely never be used otherwise. In fact it's...

In the interim, they could install a temporary tap point (like the GO or UPX readers) outside the fare paid zone at York University TTC station where eligible riders could tap to be reimbursed. That's assuming the PRESTO system is capable of something like that, which I suspect it's not at the...

In theory this would be revenue neutral. Instead of passengers disembarking at York University GO station, they ride down to Downsview Park, transfer to the subway, and ride back to York University TTC station. The passengers aren't paying a TTC fare right now, so there's no lost revenue there...

They need to figure out how to make transfers free at Downsview Park for anyone disembarking at York University. That was what was supposed to happen, and would remove one of the major objections to closing the York University GO station.

The thing is, they're only really useful if you have docks at destinations so people have somewhere to ride to. If the only docks are at subway stations, then people can only ride from station to station, and what's the point of that? You need a distributed network of stations for it to be...

There've been stations in Etobicoke since last year along the Martin Goodman. They can keep expanding outward, but at some point the built form and lack of cycling infrastructure will result in increasingly diminished returns. I might put some along the Humber River trail, but they would...

Ridership north of Bloor isn't above the level that the bus can serve, and if you convert it to streetcar you're either forcing a transfer elsewhere or creating a streetcar into low-density, lower-use areas. The subway was the logical cutoff point because of the existing transfer volume...

38 minutes is the estimated time for the entire Crosstown. Maybe they got those two mixed up? Kennedy to Yonge, which is roughly the same length as Finch, is projected at 26 minutes and most of that is surface operation.

In a way that's what they already did. The community wanted a tunnel and Metrolinx said they were going to proceed with the overpass no matter what, and the community was forced to settle for the public realm improvements as a sweetener. Seems fair to me.

1. Metrolinx is a government agency, and the government is accountable to the people it represents, even those who are in its way. 2. The world is full of examples of why rolling over a minority of people for someone's definition of "the greater good" is a bad idea. 3. Why would you do that when...

Exactly. Even if you don't care at all about this specific community, or you think Metrolinx promised too much, you should find it concerning if Metrolinx fails to live up to its commitments here. GO expansion and the various other higher-order transit projects that Metrolinx is planning on...

They're only planning for five minute headways at peak. Assuming two minute headways are possible, that would be 150% growth. By the time they achieve that, they could probably justify ordering new, longer vehicles or even building extended platforms. But that's a lot of riders! That's a shorter...

Of the 65,913 people in that census tract, only 262 households (likely less than 2%) live on the islands. That data set tells you nothing about them.

Carlton, Dundas, and Queen would probably be even more heavily used if they hadn't been capacity-constrained for roughly the last decade as well. We've seen this on King, Spadina, and even St Clair; you increase capacity and latent demand fills that capacity.

Any new train technology would require a new maintenance and storage yard, which would vastly increase the cost of the project. You'll also be significantly negatively impacting ridership if you include a transfer. And if you're going to pay for what would effectively a brand new LRT line, is...