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no that's a myth. it all depends on the design. there's countless examples where one way streets do not prioritize car movement. especially if it's just one lane. this idea some people have that it would kill the street's vibrancy is misguided at best. personally I think ROW's would be fine...

i've suggested that many times before. obviously King would need to become a one way, but it could be paired with Queen.

putting an ROW on King is not a bad idea. it was probably the best idea of the original three options. the only problem is the lack of room for platforms, where people still would have to cross live traffic to board. i would support doing this with every streetcar line, not just King. left...

that will probably happen eventually as well. as soon as it opens people in Scarborough will complain that they got the Dollarama portion of the line.

yes. take this funding and put it towards a subway line that parallels Line 2 south of Bloor. the city desperately needs a line like that, but that wouldn't be "fair" or buy precious votes.

that's pretty much exactly how it works in Berlin and it works beautifully. 4 track corridors 2 tracks are dedicated to S-Bahn service (10 minutes all day) 2 tracks are dedicated to Regional & Intercity (ICE) service. dividing the two services (local & regional) is so simple to understand...

i agree. the only complicated section would be Bloor to St. Clair on Jane. North of St. Clair it can run at street level being > 27 m, but south that's looking like a 2km tunnel.

well you just touched on the crux of the problem. municipal politicians love debating infrastructure development proposals endlessly, so that they don't actually have to commit to building infrastructure projects. personally i never thought city councillor make for good transit planers, nor do...

pre-metro perhaps? or is that too ambitious?

has it been a headache or just a reluctance to invest capital into transit expansion? I see what you are saying though. we'd have two stub lines with low ridership, but also two stub lines that could be easily expanded with enough $ and political will. that's much better than nothing.

sure, but also don't underestimate that it is much easier to extend an existing line than creating a new line from scratch. logically it should have expanded east to Yonge, then Don Mills, and eventually Kennedy. but logically the Line 4 should have already been extended both east and west...

sure there's always push back from NIMBY's, but who cares honestly. the Eglinton West LRT is underground only because it was Ford's riding / backyard. otherwise the whole thing would have been and should have been elevated (not a street level). you can see with the Ontario Line that several...

small communities hahaha yeah there's unfortunately a fair bit of that too. subways should only be built underground in the most densely populated areas of the city. otherwise elevated will suffice. i think there's some merit to light rail in the right scenario. it's fine to question the...

hog all the transit monies? Toronto has never gotten enough transit monies. give it all to us. small communities? really? bad transit planning is what happens when politicians try to buy votes.

that's not what i was referring to. i'm not talking about changing rolling stock. what i meant was mimicking the Eglinton Crosstown West Extension between Mount Denis & Scarlett, just east instead. replacing the street level grade with less stations, but elevated. the advantages being many and...

they'll eventually have to rebuild the east section elevated like how it should have been build from day 1. they should just start doing now in my opinion. open the line as planned. start rebuilding the east portion of the line. when that's completely close down the road at grade section.

how far east & west would this line go before veering north?

some great points. i do think a King subway would be a couple of decades from now, post OL & GO expansion (optimization). hypothetically though if you could create one subway route that doesn't already exist in Toronto (or another region like York) where would you put it? is there a more...

i had a similar idea, but historically lame politicians like adam vaughan thought it would make the downtown core a ghost town. i'm guessing he's never been to New York. anyways i think it would work well. you're right though for every streetcar to be in ROW it would require converting those...

1. trams are slower in transit malls because of safety concerns for pedestrians. they have to operate a slower speeds for that reason. 2. i never want to hear the sentence we don't have enough $ to build higher order transit. it's a lame excuse and isn't congruent with reality. why are the...