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I think you just wrote the Sheppard underpass was built because of the impending LRT.

This doesn't sound right. An unrelated underpass could have been built at Finch or Steeles, where there currently is none. Instead it was built at Sheppard because of the SELRT and is under utilized because so far the SELRT has not been completed. At least half of the construction price has to...

I'd like to know what the SELRT cancellation costs will be that Karygiannis, Kelly, Cho and the other anti-SELRT councillors are proposing to bestow on Toronto. Nfitz says there's no Bombardier penalties in this $75M, and I'll take his word on that. But the SELRT was under construction in 2010...

It's even worse over at Torstar Corp's community newspapers York Guardian / David Nickle: "That $3.56 billion line will, unlike the provincially-funded light rail line, be funded by property tax increases totalling 1.5 per cent." Well no, some $750M to 900M will be funded from increased...

Some of these costs are Bombardier penalties which makes me wonder does Toronto build in penalties when Bombardier fails to deliver. We have what 3 or 4 new streetcars when we're supposed to have 30 or 40. Shouldn't there be some offsetting going on?

We could, but you have to wonder what this effort would prove. http://youtu.be/iXpwflzSF4M

I would have agreed with you publicly before the introduction of the federal Bill C-51 by the Conservative government. Now, or when it passes, I'm not sure I wouldn't be supporting some definition of terrorism for which I could be locked up indefinitely in a cold Canadian prison.

I can fathom one particular anti-transit psycho organizing a trucking blockade on Finch when construction crews show up. Hopefully Toronto's finest can be distracted from their carding operations on that day to help us get beyond it. #KettleMammoliti2016

So this means the city will continue with designing and building a Bloor/Danforth subway extension to replace the SRT. There's a lot of disagreement on this but at least we can say council made some progress today. Globalnews seemed to grasp this point but not Tstar for some reason. Regarding...

Does De Baeremaeker lose his .25 Deputy Mayor position? Fellow TTC Commissioner Shelley Carroll said that she didn’t think De Baeremaeker’s plan would get far, given the lack of support from the mayor’s office — and she suggested that in fact his role as one of four deputy mayors was not as...

I should point out this underpass/overpass infrastructure requirement for SmartTrack is not just at Finch and Steeles, but also south of Steeles Havendale Rd Huntingwood Dr McNicoll Ave Passmore Ave north of Steeles Kennedy Rd Denison St.

Indeed it is not black and white. You say the infrastructure is already there but is it? The GO line from Kennedy north is a single track. The train either goes north or it goes south, not both. When the SELRT was under construction, there was an underpass built for Sheppard (with significant...

This is why it makes sense to stop SmartTrack at Kennedy in the east. Build the Bloor/Danforth extension to McCowan (as subway, surface or elevated; whatever makes sense). Build SmartTrack west of Kennedy. This was one of those issues with Tory. Why is the Toronto mayor focused on building a...

By contrast this is not ugly, but then nor is it elevated. Happy holidays to all my railfan friends at Urban Toronto!

I completely agree. I also think the local example of elevated on the YUS line north from Yorkdale to Wilson, across the 401, is ugly. Were an elevated option considered between STC and McCowan, I'm hoping we could do better perhaps by looking to Vancouver or elsewhere and having bigger dreams...

Thank you for those links. My suspicion--completely untested--is that because the route is splitting westward at Kennedy, there are enough mechanisms to encourage enough riders to transfer from the Scarborough/Eglinton line to Bloor/Danforth that overloading of the ECLRT going west from Kennedy...

I like your compromise but I envision a different solution, elevation as an option not a rule. My compromised idea is to extend the ECLRT, with the Flexity LRT technology, but on the same path as the current subway plan going on street where possible, underground where necessary and elevated...

Agree!

What does a train say when it is moving down the tracks? Choo choo! What does a train say when it doesn't go anywhere? Cho cho!

I swear on Doug Ford's potty mouth that I sat in the Scarborough Civic Centre chambers in 2010 listening to Glenn De Baeremaeker explain how his constituents (Read: Oxford Properties, Kevric Real Estate Corporation) complained to him when he made the tough but right decision that an LRT line...