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+3 I was interested up until the phrase "Streetcars for Toronto...these hippies" appeared.

What's frustrating about this whole debate is that anyone who has followed the development and construction of the UPX will have known that it's being designed as a higher-price, premium express service and not really a form of commuter rail, and would've known this for many months now. We on...

I don't mind being told how to vote. The debate is welcome. And none of us post without an ideological bias, that's the nature of human beings. That being said, I posted agreeing with Salsa's response (which I didn't care to quote for the umpteenth time in this thread in the interests of time...

If he's willing to use the Richview Corridor still for Eglinton West, and willing to put up the money to tunnel sections, it would be cheaper just to buy back the land sold to the developers, bulldoze their damn townhouses, and just build in the corridor at grade. Bravo to Salsa on your...

I am continually puzzled by how anybody could oppose the FWLRT. It'll do wonders for some truly in-need communities and will take over from bus routes of proven high ridership. The fact that Tory is so wishy-washy about it and the SELRT is infuriating. Which side is this guy on? The side...

The public itself will see lower toll rates and the province will have free reign to work on the 407 as they see fit, including the ability to (at some arbitrary future time-point) build a parallel highway that directly competes with it for traffic, if necessary for reasons of traffic...

Mike Harris's idiocy will haunt this province for decades to come in many ways, good sir. I would agree that it's worth it to cancel the deal, even if, as TOareaFan states, such a cancellation would involve some very delicate negotiations. The price in any event would be high, and hopefully a...

As it stands, if I'm not mistaken, the Ontario government still does own the 407 - its operation (and therefore the toll revenues) are simply leased to the consortium, which is why the 407 will inevitably come back under public control in the year 2098 (when the lease expires). Cancelling the...

Toll revenue, year after year...? Going into provincial hands where it can be re-invested in other important things like infrastructure and healthcare, instead of to for-profit private businesses?

Haha very true. Once that deficit is balanced, however, it would be well worth doing. As is we're locked in to getting nothing out of the 407 ETR until 2098 anyways. If it takes 20 years of toll revenue to regain the costs of cancelling the lease / expropriation, it's worth it - traffic will...

I'm hoping, although less realistically, that the province will one day be able to reclaim control and toll revenue of the 407 from the consortium. Oh yes. That would be the day.

This is true, but what I mean is that the ultimate goal should be to get all of the lines upgraded to AD2W service, and that work should proceed on upgrading the infrastructure on all of the lines as much as possible in the next four years...before another provincial election could sink GO RER.

I would seriously hope that we're not going to have to pick and choose between lines getting AD2W - they all deserve it ASAP in my opinion. This being said I feel like a St Clair station, or really the majority of infill stations, makes more sense on the Kitchener Line than Barrie. Kitchener...

Can confirm that lack of a good transit connection between Durham and York is a problem. A large percentage of the workforce from Durham (from my network of family & friends & acquaintances across Durham at least) commutes to Markham, Richmond Hill, and Vaughan and currently has basically one...

Distance is one factor, especially considering how there's a very marked physical barrier between Metro and Durham in the form of the Rouge Valley. But from what I've seen I think the biggest factors which keep Durham on a low profile are the relative smallness of it all and, more...

Having attempted to genuinely use Durham Region Transit to get places around town I can agree with that statement. The buses all run at around 30 min frequencies (except maybe during rush hour when they're 20 min) and follow an annoying tendency to loop through multiple residential side streets...

Speaking as a Pickering resident, we're frankly quite happy with our GO service - couple that with improvements to 15 min service and most of us will be happy as clams. Now, I do recognize that a severe lack of transit options exists for commuters from Durham Region wishing to travel to places...

Perhaps just expressing an unpopular opinion here but I can't stand those announcements. Yes I understand that they're done for accessibility's sake, but they're repetitive, long, annoying, and loud. When I rode MiWay from Port Credit to Square One a few months back, hearing "19 HURONTARIO...

Bold ideas? Passionate about transit? Ha. You have to be joking. What with cutting TTC service during periods of record high ridership and funding a fare freeze with the surplus, trying to vote away the McNicoll bus garage, and wasting untold billions by dragging up the Scarborough subway and...

Agreed. My choices would be Soknacki in theory, but Chow in practicality (if I actually were to vote). In other news, Karen Stintz dropped out of the race today and also stated she won't run for council. I say good riddance. Thoughts?