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How far off is the DRL though? All we know about the staging is that the BD extension gets top priority with Waterfront East being next in line. And all the previously funded LRT lines are still on track. So by the time we get around to the DRL we could already be inching up on that 20 year mark.

For 484 million more dollars! A half billion premium so that people that are already going to be served by rapid transit don't have to switch trains. Oh and for all that money we also lose service to Centennial College. This is subway fetishism at it's worst. No logical plan would ever spend...

That is not a very compelling justification for spending half a billion dollars.

What's the benefit of extending the B-D to Sheppard when the SRT conversion is already going to be grade separated? Like I can see an argument that a surface LRT would provide a lower quality of service than a subway, but a grade separated LRT and subway are basically identical except for...

Yeah and Midland to Brimley is 850m. It's called an average.

Who cares how fast the LRT goes if your only options for getting to a station are walking 20 minutes or waiting 30 minutes for a bus ride? The amount of speed gained would barely be noticeable for passengers, but the amount of inconvenience added for the people who actually live on the line...

"Wouldn't provide a perfect substitute" is an understatement. Take out Laird station and you're looking at 2.3km between Bayview and Leslie, with an uphill stretch both ways in between. The hilly 1.3km between Avenue and Bathurst ain't pretty either. At a certain point people have to be able...

Don't forget that there's a pretty steep hill between Keele St and Caledonia Station, making that stretch of Eglinton more difficult to walk than the segment to the east. So yeah there's a bit of a mismatch in terms of physical distance, but in terms of time/difficulty I think it might actually...

There are a whole bunch of surface corridors where you have to change buses at a subway station because the two routes are run on different frequencies and I have never once heard anyone claim that this arrangement is the "height of stupidity". But ask someone to step out of an LRT or subway...

He seemed to be talking about a line from Don Mills and Eglinton to a proposed GO station at Bathurst North Yard. It would connect to Danforth at Pape and then continue south either straight down to Eastern or under the Rail Corridor. It would take the Front and Wellington through downtown to...

Uh what? I can't think of any local bus route in this city that a regular spacing of 400-500m. The downtown segment of the subway does though.

People choose to move all the time; they aren't forced out of their homes en masse for the sake of eliminating a transfer on Jane.

You're talking about forcing hundreds of people out of their homes and literally destroying entire communities and you don't see the problem with that? These people's lives have value beyond the cost of their fucking house. This obsession people have with eliminating transfers on this forum...

There are three options in that report, and their average speeds are outlined in Tables 2, 4, and 5. Full right of way along the entire route yeilds 27 km/h. A mix between bus lanes and right of way yeilds either 23.5 or 23 km/h, depending on the details of the option. And the stop spacing in...

Sorry. I was responding to Electrify's description of the Durham BRT a few posts up.

Also the stop spacing on the Ellesmere segment would be way wider than 800m. Here's literally all the proposed stops: Scarborough Centre McCowan Road Markham Road Neilson Road UTSC Meadowvale Road Sheppard Avenue and then the next stop after that would be Altona Road in Pickering.

Uh that source pretty clearly says that the full BRT option would have an average speed of 27 km/h.

That's Don Mills to Meadowvale. Don Mills to Morningside is 35 minutes.

Not necessarily. If you're running one service instead of two than you can do it a lot more frequently for the same amount of money. The whole rationale behind the LRT stop spacing was to be between the typical Toronto local spacing and typical Toronto rapid transit spacing, so that one service...

Yeah as far as I could tell he revised that down a bit. In the book he suggests 800m being a more appropriate spacing for rapid service.