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And let me also guess, HOV lane technically ends right before the two lane drops you mentioned so it looks like no GPL space was lost. The 410 situation is worse because it used to have an auxiliary lane that joined from Steeles, now this lane ends roughly halfway on your way to Clark, and then...

I’ll post another lengthy point about this project further,, but the biggest joke of the HOV lane is that those who have green plates can drive in one solo. I do drive a green plated vehicle myself, and it seems stupid to have an advantage. Heck, even if cars somehow ran on a totally natural...

I believe you in all of that except for one thing, Bramalea City Centre never had a Cineplex Odeon, Famous Players had a triplex inside known as Cinemas 3, This theatre relocated and became Gateway Six in 1988, again it was a Famous Players property. CinemaTreasures confirms this only...

Isn’t this precisely where Hwy 413 comes into play, even ignoring those doing it illegally, the amount of big warehouses that popped up along Coleraine Drive in the last 10 years is astounding. To be fair, Caledon forbids trucks to go through the heart of Bolton but rather must use a bypass...

The problem lies in Finch West and the eastern portion of Eglinton being an actual glorified streetcar. Suppose you ran the planned vehicles for Finch and Eglinton on the Scarborough RT route, obviously we would understand that the latter wouldn’t be a glorified streetcar because of 100% total...

How far do you consider long distance? Would Kingston be long distance in your eye? Even with more movement of long distance freight, there is obviously going to be a large amount of goods moved by drivers who do “city work”. For instance, a major Loblaws terminal to deliver food to the stores...

Really, you’re going to compare a hypothetical extension of Yonge to Hwy 9 (many reasons why this is a theoretical stupid idea) to something that was proposed many years ago in the past. Something we used to refer to as a “Downtown Relief Line”. Obviously, the Ontario line reaching a spot like...

I have not just screamed for more highways and nothing else, but seeing highways as evil things is not fair either. Eglinton should have been a full blown subway line, I’ve been saying that for years, and saying that opinion doesn’t mean I’m anti transit, far from it. Depending on my situation...

Yeah, Line 5, a half assed version of something that was proposed back when Spadina was canceled, now before you play the game and say that Harris canceled it when shovels were in the ground, the current version is unacceptable. Obviously, the above ground section since it won’t use any kind of...

And how much investment in real transit has occurred since the cancellation of Spadina 50 years ago, I think we all know the answer. Much of the transit lifeblood of the city was running back in ‘72 or was under construction. Cancellation of Spadina was supposed to lead to a focus in transit...

So what exactly is your solution, while there is a decent rapid transit system that gets you from Scarborough to Etobicoke (something that most times of the day would be quicker by car depending where you start and end up) how does one get from say Northern Brampton where I am to say Markham...

The 410 @ 7 plaza received a facelift in the mid 20-aughts and only the Toys R Us (and Value Village) remain from the days prior to the facelift. I still do remember the old plaza very well and could tell you everything that was in there over the years. The thing was, other than Toys R Us...

And do you agree with him, if I recall you and I, Haljackey go a long way back. What many people seem to miss since the cancelation of Spadina was the explosive growth (moreso in what we now call the GTA) since that decision. I mean what was the combined population of what we now call City of...

Living in Brampton, in my time, growing up, that old rat was nowhere to be found, (Chuck E Cheese I’m speaking of course) they had a store in the Clarence Mall I’ve been told but don’t remember it. Anyways, one of the photos one will find if they search up Discovery Zone, that chain that...

Because at what point, do we demand TTC employees to be fully bilingual to work for them like how it is with Via Rail. Providing next station announcements in French would have to be mean you also have to provide service announcements in French as well.

Not entirely true, while I’m not exactly sure what the requirements are for the MTO to designate an area as bilingual in terms of signage, the MTO does not have bilingual signs throughout the province. While Toronto and Peel have bilingual signs on MTO maintained roads, Halton, York, and Durham...

One said that 40,000 students are in French schools in Toronto alone, how many students are NOT in French schools. So the subway must be bilingual you say, let’s not take this a step further, how about a bilingual PATH (which I admit has more generally avoided directions recently and uses...

The theory involving bilingualism being the issue does make sense. “Vaughan via Union” works because “via” is a bilingual word. Even though the whole thing doesn’t seem natural, having “Union and Finch” would create a bilingual headache as you’d need to say Union and/et Finch or something...

Are you sure bilingualism is the reason, I mean the TTC is city property. For example, it’s quite some time ago but when the MTO transferred the portion of the QEW between Hwy 427 and Lake Shore, the City was quick to remove the French signs. But anyways, what a stupid move by the TTC, hiding...

I’d argue they are doing both simultaneously in a strange way. A lousy non grade separated system and a street forever altered by restricted turn movements and longer signals. Eglinton for example had little to know fully protected left turn movements, before they were protected-permissive at...