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That was my first look, but nothing came up that matches the timeframe. Forever shall it remain... a mystery 🤣

Personally, I will accept value engineering as an argument when the numpties at Metrolinx stop spending billions of dollars on deep tunneling of suburban subway extensions. Clearly, we are not in the game of even trying to save money, so why draw the line here? Why is it more important that a...

Not really the best thread for this, but I can't think of one that would be more appropriate... does anyone know WTF happened today downtown??? About 5:30 PM this afternoon I was doing some railfanning on Spadina just south of Front when I saw a cop car, sirens ablazin', heading south along the...

Why would we need to learn from a city's experience with a different model of train, when Waterloo and Edmonton are running the cars right now, and they themselves are not dissimilar to the legacy cars that Toronto has had in service for the last 10 years? Bringing up Ottawa, therefore, seems...

How many times have you been told that Ottawa and the Crosstown use different types of train models?

Wouldn't the easiest, least-resistance solution be to just block access to the half of the platform that doesn't open? No idea why ML wouldn't do this.

I must have missed the part where the test in Moscow was declared a success. They're only starting to test it now, we don't even know if it will work properly. We've been hearing from the auto bros that driverless cars are around the corner for the last 20 years, too, and so far they are only a...

Let's hope this won't be the case. It certainly won't happen in every city, at any rate. I can't imagine New York will ever eliminate drivers fully, and thank God for that.

And how long ago was that? Because I can count on one hand the number of times I've had a GO bus bypass the Gardiner in the last 5 years. Again, why do you think that is? Because our transit system is a flaming pile of garbage! Imagine if Manhattan had the same population it currently does...

I can't say I understand the kvetching about ad wraps. They break up the visual monotony of the city, they help financially support the cash strapped transit system, and sometimes, they're even adorable. But then, I'm not a believer in standardized visual identities, so the thought of a TTC...

I wasn't referring to the section through Parkdale, but the elevated section through the former railway lands downtown. Hence, "life in the core" and "the area was an industrial wasteland when the Gardiner was built,". And why shouldn't I? Both cost a lot of money to build and operate, and if...

All of these arguments can be used just as easily against all the subway extensions to suburbia people keep promoting on here. As well as the GO bus, and every single cross border local transit route. Do I take it you're against them, too? It doesn't make any sense. If city borders are just...

That's very nice, but to undo that status quo, we actually have to do something about it. Look, I hate the overreliance we have on cars as much as you. The propaganda that our urban planners bought into in the wake of World War II has done irreparable damage to the fabric of our society. But...

Many people don't choose to live in the suburbs to save money, they are forced to live there because they've been completely priced out of the actual city. I don't see what relevance it has, anyway. You can't have it both ways. If we are building subways to York Region to serve folk who are not...

I would not have phrased it in such a way, but it is hard to imagine how exactly a busy, at grade stroad that absorbs all the traffic that currently uses the Gardiner would improve the quality of life in the core. The whole area was badly conceived from the outset; but for the fact that the area...

Would the 4% grade not be exactly what prevents the high speed operation to begin with? Granted, I have not studied the entire world to see how things operate, but in my experience, what I have found is that rail vehicles descending down steep slopes are subjected to speed restrictions to avoid...

On further reflection, I think that rather than having a fancy bridge (if in fact it remains one) at the lower Don crossing, I would have preferred it here. The lower Don area is already urbanized, and crossed by a number of unremarkable bridges (Dundas, Gerrard, Queen, and the GO corridor). In...

When you open TransSee and see eight different branches for the 501, I wouldn't say getting one self acquainted with the service conditions is a simple task. I wonder for what possible reason they don't nix the 501B bus all together and run the 501 streetcar both ways via Church/Spadina/King. If...

I know why they did it the way they did, I just regret that we as a society are OK with accepting uglier designs to save money. We'd never build a station like the IRT City Hall ever again: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/City_Hall_Station_%2832200%29.jpg

Man, it's too bad we as a society have accepted value engineering the aesthetics right out of our public works. Imagine, instead of a non descript concrete bridge of zero consequence, an elegant stone viaduct spanning the valley...