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I think really that Tory proposed SmartTrack for two reasons: 1. Vote-buying in Scarborough and Etobicoke, which were Ford strongholds; 2. Capitalizing on the already-existing plans to use existing heavy-rail corridors for rapid transit by basically proclaiming the GO RER plan as his own...

It's not like there is much continuous corridor space suitable for transit lines left in this city—I don't understand why the planning department at the city would be shortsighted enough to not push for some sort of moratorium on selling it off for useless townhomes. Regardless, I hope that...

Not just agreeing because I'm a Pickering guy myself but I do agree that the uptown bypass line and maybe the midtown one as well would be better served ending in Pickering (as a gateway to other riders from Durham) than in the Rouge Park. The uptown bypass is a great idea though and I've long...

Thank you for making this argument 44, because I would love to be making it here too if I had more than a few minutes per day to spend perusing UT. There's a lot of optimism in the plans and renders that I've been seeing thrown around here and I have real serious doubts about how most of this...

Big fan of most of these changes. The express bus network expansion and restoration of the service lost due to the Ford/Stintz cuts is a step forward in making the bus network a bit less ridiculous and a bit more usable for the huge numbers that ride it everyday. All-door boarding and POP...

Yeah the geography of Steeles would make it difficult to have a traditional GO station with a vast sea of parking, but I wonder if (given sufficient demand being proven, and therefore also requiring some form of higher-order transit along Steeles itself to feed into the station - hence my...

Agreed. Short of moving the entire station north, extending the platform and giving it a link to Leslie subway like that is probably the best way to connect this infamously almost-there GO-TTC transfer. Of course, looking forward to the eventual need for double-tracking the corridor for RER...

Probably Brimley yes. Speaking of station names in Scarborough though, did anything ever become of the vote back in December 2013 to rename Lawrence East Station on the Line 2 extension to "Nelson Mandela Station"? Are we still doing that?

I certainly think that that would be a fantastic way to make the Eglinton section of SmartTrack a reasonable addition. As it stands the westward turn along Eglinton is really quite a white elephant in the entirety of the plan, especially considering that SmartTrack is just GO RER with a...

Baby steps indeed. Even the slightest bit of fare integration is a major, major step forward for these two agencies which traditionally stick their fingers in their ears and try to pretend the other doesn't exist. I would hope that the other GO stations closest to Union (like Kennedy, Bloor...

Maybe it's just the clientele of the two services, being as TTC serves a wide cross-section of society whereas GO tends to be primarily middle-class and above businesspeople and families, but I have to agree that the TTC makes for the more...eye-opening...experiences. I ride both every day and...

My claim for yesterday's is still being processed, but I'm on Lakeshore East so it's possible that we were experiencing different delays. Still, GO's criteria don't make any sense to me. Switches merit a refund but signals don't? Issues with one are within their control and issues with the...

Reading the fine print reveals quite a bit about the service guarantee - nearly every possible event that one could think of that might delay a train is exempt from the guarantee on the grounds that it's "outside of GO's control". Case in point, my claim for the large delays on Monday as a...

The cold weather has been doing a number on the equipment, the switches, and the signals it seems. We've had delays the past three mornings on Lakeshore East; Monday's almost an hour as well.

Absolutely something like this would be harder in Ontario, and for good reason. The ghostly spectre of the 407 deal hangs over the placing of public infrastructure into private hands in this province and should serve as a reminder of the risk involved in doing so - both the risk for the public...

True, I support a greater selection of east-west transit lines as well (Eglinton, Sheppard East/Finch West, I also am of the opinion that Steeles warrants an LRT), but I also find it hard to believe that the notably abysmal management of most TTC surface routes is largely due to a particular...

Agreed. The Northlander's failings were not a problem inherent in the service so much as the underinvestment into it. Upgrading the track, rolling stock etc. and getting proper (read: usable) rail service to northern population centres could have a great benefit. But as always, in Ontario...

Both Flemingdon and Thorncliffe are your garden-variety "tower-in-the-park" communities, but I too have always found Thorncliffe to be more isolated than Flemingdon. With the latter, the bulk of the population density, although not exactly street-facing, is within fair range of Don Mills Rd and...

There's no question that a traffic solution is badly needed in the Leaside area - I confess that even I have cut through the neighbourhood streets on occasion - and Redway / Village Station could very well be that solution, but any arterial road construction in the area needs to be planned very...

I'm sure Toronto taxpayers won't mind coughing up a fairly trivial amount of money (in the grand scheme of things) for screens that they can actually read. We don't absolutely need the ads for them.