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You would. My municipality is out of its mind here.

Out here in Pickering we've got a development called Durham Live being pushed right now - it'll develop a massive greenfield in a mostly industrial area into an "entertainment complex" featuring an office tower, performing arts centre, film studios, casino, etc. Faux-urbanism to be sure, but...

Haha Pickering is another issue entirely...visions of grandeur. Look up something called "Durham Live". You'll lol. And no, if Richmond Hill had all-day service, the Yonge subway wouldn't be nearly so bursting at the seams. The Paris model is something to be seriously emulated here, and I hope...

I'm well thanks! Taxes may have been a factor in the past, but at this point the undeniable reality is that the bulk of the growth in this city will happen downtown, whether or not we want to accept that. STC and ECC are nodes, yes, but they'll never be the sort of urban centres that the Metro...

STC and Etobicoke City Centre have pretty well been flops. NYCC, less so, but it's such a small slice of North York's geographic area - go only a couple of streets over in either direction and you're back into suburban residential housing again. I cannot believe that there is still such a...

This will be fantastic. As a GO user from the far, far-away lands of suburbia, it's ridiculous to see how crammed the parking lots (and garages!) are. Knock an amount off of the fare, and a lot of people will switch to local transit on the way to the station instead. This of course will be most...

It's like 99% of the 416 has no idea that they can even use the GO train at all...my level of incredulity; I don't think it can be topped.

The Seaton GO RER line, well in some way or another it would use the CP Belleville Subdivision through Malvern and Morningside Heights eastward towards a terminus at the planned community of Seaton in norther Pickering. It could either use a Midtown line routing, cutting across Scarborough and...

Indeed. SmartTrack is really only a subset of the GO RER system that will be operating in this city (God willing) at some point anyhow, and we'd do well to remember that. I like the addition of the Queensway alignment for the DRL; it helps become a sort of WWLRT in that manner, though I...

HOV will be useless. 400-series highways that carry busy GO bus routes need a GO bus-only lane in each direction. That alone would be enough to vastly speed up a lot of inter-city travel until more rail service gets implemented. Insert, I respect you very much for going into planning in...

Municipal permits can be issued ad nauseum but the fact remains that Seaton doesn't exist yet and until it does there is room for debate, especially if we get a less-developer-friendly municipal government after October. In Durham at least we're tired of "it's a done deal in which you had no...

Haha that's one way of looking at it, for the more optimistic among us. I would really not characterize Pickering as enthusiastic about Seaton though - most of the people that I've talked to about it, and I have talked to enough of them through my involvement in local politics, are either...

From daily use of the station I would caution against assuming that capacity is still plentiful since only the two first floors of the parking structure fill up completely - the rest of the levels, from what I've seen, are always at or above 50% full as well. Adding in higher ridership due to...

An Altona Station would be certainly useful to a lot of Pickering residents, considering how much of a drive the station at Liverpool and Bayly is for many of us. I like the idea of joining Pickering to Northern Scarborough a lot actually - there's a fair few residents out here that I know...

Hrrrrgggghhh this map makes me salivate with the possibilities. Really quick question; as a Pickering resident I'm interested: where would your Altona station on the Seaton REX line be located? Like Altona Road and where?

Up until last year I used to get caught at crew changes nearly every night at St. Andrew southbound on the University Line. Sometimes it could take up to 3-4 minutes for the northbound train to arrive and the crews to swap...delaying me just enough before I get to Union that I would miss my...

Much as I hate to admit it, you are right enough...I would personally want Chow because I don't think that Toronto will benefit after four years of Rob Ford slash-and-burn by electing yet another rich centre-right, cuts-and-privatization-happy mayor, but that's my own opinion and not wholly...

I'm displeased by Chow's comments, but at the same time I would still pick her over Tory, for a number of reasons which I won't re-hash here. But I think that it's not fair to make the assumption that GO RER will maintain the same fare structure as GO does now. SmartTrack and RER cannot and...

It's mind boggling. Difficult to justify trotting out NIMBY neighbours when the line has already been used by GO - in fact, louder and dirtier (diesel) trains than the electrics that RER will use - for decades. Not to mention the eternal truth that: that rail corridor was there far before...

It infuriates me. This is why Toronto politics itself is the great brake on transit expansion. You have the best, most realistic, furthest-reaching, and most cost-effective plan for transit in the GTHA brought forth by the province, and immediately one candidate outright copies it for their own...