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RER on the Milton corridor requires CP to agree to re-route their freight mainline to a shared corridor with CN (a corridor which at this point is still just a concept). It's not likely to come to reality within the next 25 years. A subway along that corridor requires CP to agree to sell/lease...

An average of 7.5 minutes for Weston, Mt Dennis, and Bloor (but not St Clair or Liberty Village). But because of the different stopping patterns and route lengths, spacing them actually 7.5 minutes apart won't be possible. Saying an average of 7.5 minutes is all well and good, but you could...

My understanding is you'll have: Electrified RER trains stopping at Union, Liberty, Bloor, St Clair, Mt Dennis, Weston, Etobicoke North, Malton, and Bramalea on 15 minute headways (and likely interlined with Stouffville) Electrified UPX trains stopping at Union, Bloor, Mt Dennis, Weston, and...

The Liberty Village plan is from the recent station designs. I can't remember where I read the one for Bloor, and it's possible I'm mixing it up with Bloor-Lansdowne, but whether Bloor is bypassed by express trains or not, either way it'll have trains stopping there which won't stop at Liberty...

The ramp and fence look pretty medium-term temporary to me. GO needed a solution that would last a few years until they were ready to lay down the 4th track (and pay for an extra tunnel entrance). I can't speak to the engineering work that went into designing it, but the finished product looks...

The platform at Bloor is already there. It'll need a tunnel extension though. I don't think there is a party in this race that can afford to cancel that work. Too much future infrastructure service too many diverse ridings depends on it.

You're talking about students; I don't think many of them will have the disposable income to ride the fancy train for the extra comfort. And since they're students, many of them will be travelling off-peak, negating the impact of the rush hour crowding, which is itself not bad at all if you're...

I always forget about the Richmond Hill line...

I believe it's Confederation GO.

This would be a little weird, given that Dupont, St. George, and both Spadina stations are also in the Annex, but I take your point. I think the strong neighbourhood identity is really an Old Toronto thing, where the neighbourhoods are much smaller. In the more suburban areas, the neighbourhood...

I believe this is supposed to be Campbell Park. The people are "real" in the sense that they're renders of theoretical real people. St. Clair will already have a station on the Kitchener line, just a little to the west. The Barrie line will have stations at Bloor and Eglinton. For the small...

I'd be surprised if we saw TWAD even akin to the old Lakeshore hourly service any time soon. Station improvements aside, Metrolinx refuses to run GO trains on the UPX tracks, which means the Kitchener line needs another track to be finished, which I believe has some other infrastructure projects...

They are getting 15 minute service to Bramalea. True that won't help when it comes to travelling within Brampton, but the way Brampton's laid out, really no single higher order line would be better than enhancing bus service across the board.

I believe if you travel from Pearson to Exhibition you would pay the double fare; they seem to consider the trip from Pearson to Weston to be the premium fare. But ultimately I think the issue is that they've never really considered someone taking this particular trip. The same applies with...

To use Hydrail on UPX, Alstom would have to not only make a Hydrail train, they'd have to make a Hydrail train with the right door alignment for the UPX, so it's not like they could just hand over a prototype tomorrow. By the time they had one ready to go, the UPX would (hopefully) be almost...

No, you would still be paying money, just less than if you didn't have the Metropass. You could theoretically get a bigger total discount than the value of your Metropass, but given that GO caps fares too, I don't think that's possible either.

Large swaths of this city could feast on the low hanging fruit that Metrolinx has ignored here in the past. No question they could and should do more, but they could transform transit for huge swaths of the city on the low hanging fruit alone.

Not to mention that if your end goal is north of Union, the subway probably gets you closer, which matters for time savings. And there's a risk that you're waiting as much as 15 minutes at Bloor for the UPX, and if it's full, or there's a problem on the line, you're probably already into...

Spadina, Caledonia, and Lansdowne stations are not SmartTrack, unless you choose to define SmartTrack as any new GO station in the 416, in which case there really isn't any way for Metrolinx to expand local GO stops and not have it count as SmartTrack. However, you breezed right past two...

I'm not sure why that is. The access is through the FreshCo parking lot/the Discount truck rental, so maybe they can't guarantee the access? There's definitely a loop there at the path to the entrance.