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This is a really tiresome thing to keep hearing about. Everywhere you look these days it seems there's some infrastructure that is wildly behind on maintenance. Transit, roads, bridges, it seems to be the same story everywhere. At this point I would be more surprised to hear about some country...

I don't find this at all surprising. I find it rather surprising that Doug has shown himself not to be entirely anti-transit, and that people expected this to be a reflection on conservatives as a whole.

To you, and to me, but not to most people in the forum. I'm a little confused by what is your main thesis in this posting. The EELRT will not actually eliminate a linear transfer, it will just change the type of the linear transfer from bus based to streetcar based. Linear transfers are an...

Line 2 riders at Kipling taking MiWay? Line 2 riders at Kennedy traveling east along Eglinton/Kingston? Line 1 riders at Downsview going along Dufferin Street? Future line 2 riders in Scarborough heading further east into deep Scarborough? Future line 4 riders in Scarborough heading further east...

What a bunch of goofballs. When are we going to get some adults on city council for a change?

Enjoying the colourful barriers outside Union station with the paint coming off. I truly get a strong sense of civic pride.

I can confirm. In my most recent role at work I've been one of the backroom receiving folk and we get all sorts of folk that make you wonder how they are capable of putting their pants on in the morning. They come in to this warehouse area in flip flops, their heads buried in phones or both...

Thanks for the info. If you can, are you able to elaborate on what other errors there are on the map? I guess we are a long way from anything that resembles Peter Dougherty's NYC trackbook.

I venture that there is a fair bit of that general spirit alive to this day. Most notably at Chambers Street on the J/Z. Then there are of course all the abandoned stations.

A thought I had, looking at Carto Metro's track map of Toronto rail. Is this accurate? Is there really not going to be a crossover before either terminal station????? https://cartometro.com/cartes/metro-tram-toronto/index.php?gpslat=43.63668&gpslon=-79.420954&zoom=7

I disagree. If I show up at a stop I want to know how soon until my vehicle comes. Vehicles per hour is a statistic that, while useful in the right context, takes more effort to convert into usable scheduling information, especially for those (like me) who are mathetically challenged. The real...

Sounds to me like the TTC is pretty damn essential, and therefore the safest and most socially responsible way to avoid the carnage of a TTC strike is to stop being cheap bastards and give them what they want... Just a thought.

There are alternatives, such as taxis, Ubers, carpooling, driving, personal transportation such as bikes and scooters, and GO Transit, so it is not as apocalyptic as you seem to be suggesting. N.B. I seem to recall that it was not very long ago that we were quite content with shutting down the...

So you can point to countless settlements which were totally devastated by industry leaving, cities which were once viable for life until the companies that were their life blood gave up on them, and in the same breath you say that fighting against job losses is being stuck in the past? This...

But you realize why people fight tooth and nail against these changes, right? It's because looking for a new job is horrible at the best of times. Imagine you've worked at a place for 20, 30 years, are not quite yet at retirement age, but you've been suddenly told that they don't need you, and...

If that's the case then they are pretty much SOL either way, as public opinion has not been for the TTC for as long as I have been conscious of the world, and any form of punitive action, including strikes, work to rules, or any extent of service withdrawal, will just enrage the public more. In...

How so? Regardless of whether people hate their transit drivers and postal workers, they still need transit and mail delivery. People have reviled government workers, especially the TTC, for decades - you'll be very hard pressed to find someone on social media that doesn't think them to be...

No self respecting worker would ever put the interests of their clients ahead of their own. And why should they? When, in the entire sordid history of labour rights (or, for that matter, human rights), has anyone gained anything by timidly taking notice of the people their protests have...

I agree, but I wouldn't want to risk getting laid off because of it. There needs to be an actual solution to the problem.

That is one of the ways - imagine YRT or MiWay taking over TTC routes. Curiously, when OPTO was implemented on Yonge, they were able to do it because all the redundant employees were assigned to elsewhere in the workforce. I wonder why this would not be a possibility now, especially...