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https://twitter.com/oliviachow/status/519176315073990656 This tweet makes me so angry, especially as a Chow supporter. A bloody second track can and will and should be built regardless of who wins, be it Tory, Chow, or Ford! This is all the province's responsibility and I'm getting sick...

The fares for GO RER have not been announced yet, and one would think that for a project as expensive and ambitious as RER, Metrolinx would not be dumb enough to leave GO fares so prohibitively high as to make the end product as useless to Torontonians as what exists today. Still, if Tory's...

It's idiocy only because the corridor for grade separation was readily available and could've been done relatively cheaply. Ridership towards Pearson via Eglinton West, I believe at least, will only grow as time goes on, and future-proofing that segment via Richview would've been a good...

Completely. That's the reason there are also more stops in Scarborough than in the downtown area. Does anyone here think SmartTrack will ever actually be built as a standalone service? I foresee quite honestly, that given the sad but likely event that Tory becomes mayor, it'll just get merged...

So the other question to ask is what idiot planned an LRT in the middle of the street when there was a fully grade-separable empty corridor directly adjacent to said street. The sale of the Richview Corridor really is inexcusable. It's not like we're even getting mid-rise or mixed-use...

The EA for sure was done for a street ROW and the width is there, yes. I'm not arguing that the lack of the Richview corridor entirely prevents an Eglinton West LRT. But when an empty corridor that would've allowed for full grade-separation runs immediately adjacent to the road for such a long...

This always makes me so angry. Did nobody really raise a fuss when an almost laughably-easy-to-use right-of-way along a major arterial which for years has been slated for some form of higher-order transit was sold off (and is still in the process of being sold off) for...freehold townhomes...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: either the city should halt selling off corridor land (across the city, not just along the Richview corridor), or failing that, expropriate and demolish those townhouses when Eglinton West is on the slate. If the ghosts of Metro's heartless suburban...

An interesting etymological adventure Spadina certainly is, but everyone (99.9% of Torontonians at least) says Spadina with the long "i", so I'm glad that one was fixed. Drove me nuts to hear "510 Spad-eye-na; to Queens Quay and Spadeena" - the inconsistency was odd.

Interestingly enough I remember $17 from previous discussions here, but upon searching for numbers I've come up with both $8 and $17 from sources from recent years. In either event, those are high numbers. I'll try to get a conclusive figure from the TTC budget.

My numbers are wrong: turns out the subsidy is $8 per rider (I don't remember where I was pulling $17 from). But regardless, while the tunnel and station maintenance costs will still exist with a through-run LRT (unfortunately made worse since the Sheppard stations are hugely overbuilt), upticks...

What is not justifiable is continuing to subsidize the abysmal ridership of the Sheppard Subway to the tune of $8 per rider in perpetuity. I agree personally that Finch would've been a better route from the get-go, but we're stuck with the subway (or its tunnel at least) now. Might as well bite...

Knowing this twisted priorities of this city, in some bizarre scenario I can almost see it happening. Now, we all have to come to grips with the fact that Sheppard is just not a subway-capacity corridor and will not be for many, many years. Yet we still have the Sheppard Subway squarely planted...

It's a little bit sad that transit has come to this in Toronto; where crowd-funded buses need to supplant the streetcar system. I'm fully in support of the "just get on the damn GO train" mentality. Furthermore, if Waterfront West hadn't been absurdly cancelled, the situation wouldn't be...

Whenever I ride on one of those I cringe at how poorly planned out it is. The air conditioner units without the handle bars are a low ceiling for me (and I'm only an average-tall guy), but the ones with handle bars are so short I have to crane my neck.

I am indeed very much hoping that you're right. There is also still just over a month for Tory to do what he does best, which is open his mouth one too many times and sink himself. Somewhat related: Chow pulled this line out on him in one of the most recent debates: "You've gone from...

Well considering that the only part of it that Tory actually came up with was the name "SmartTrack" and an absurdly high price tag, while the province has taken and will take care of the rest with GO RER... Tory also has the defeatist right-wing "There's no funding" mentality that has held back...

I may be no John Tory fan but it's looking very seriously that he has this election in the bag. I doubt that good old Dougie will be able to be so genial as to drum up enough support to overtake him. For all his many, many faults, Rob Ford was able to portray himself as a relatable "everyman"...

Much of what you say is very true, yet I feel the need to prolong the debate just a little bit. I'm aware that the thread is on transportation links to the airport rather than the airport itself; I won't make any more ideological comments after this one :P Are my attitudes NIMBY? Of course they...

Take a gander at www.landoverlandings.com . A lot of people simply haven't heard some of the more egregious facts about how immense this project really was/is, and what sort of effect it would have on our environment in the GTA.