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As a what-if, I tried to envision what Allen Rd interchange would look like if it were converted to an at-grade arterial road. I did my best to use existing grade separations where road geometry wouldn't make them unreasonable. Notably, Allen Rd has been realigned to run entirely west of the...

Who actually lives near here who isn't already impacted by light spill and noise from the Allen?

Is there a parking levy yet?

Black Creek Drive, though not sure how, where or with what money. Highway 400 becomes a municipal road after it crosses Jane, so guess who would foot the bill...

Continuing the pipe dream. The Allen SB lanes are shifted to the east side of the Subway Track and meet Eglinton at a normalized intersection. The Allen continues south as a 2-lane divided road and enters a cut-and-cover tunnel North of Gloucester Grove. All of the houses on the east side of...

While we're pipe dreaming, if Allen were removed and traffic needed to shift towards Dufferin and Bathurst, there would need to be some new ramps built. Provided weaving issues could be adequately dealt with, it's not hard to imagine ramps at Dufferin, however the area around Bathurst is very...

Sunnyside may make for a perfectly fine western Terminus for the Relief Line, provided there are proper connections to GO and WWLRT, and RER service is sufficient for demand. There are still more destinations for a RL on King West as there are on Queen West however...

Some possible western Relief Line alignments: I see the western extension of Relief Line being built in two Stages; University to Sunnyside (GO), and then Sunnyside (GO) to the Bloor. I'm personally not sure how the relief line is supposed to reasonably get from Queen back down to King on the...

Were express trips from Bramalea to Union supposed to begin soon or was that next year?

Grade separations may be problematic if the CP and CN lines are on the same corridor through Milton. And even though it follows a historic right-of-way, It may also not be optimal for CN's track connection to be made at rough Livingston Park due to required grade separations, property...

No, not really. The freight bypass is far more likely to happen than any high speed rail proposal due to CN's agreement that allows the provice to invest in electrification on the entire Kitchener corridor. And at the very least, the other announcements today such as the $43M investment in...

While we're at it, we might as well extend it to Roncesvalles to have an easy place to extract the TBM. This is the definition of scope creep.

Are the display boards from the PCC available somewhere public? I'm unable to locate them on the Relief Line site :confused:

But pneumatic tube transport has been around since the 19th Century! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube#/media/File:Pneumatic_Dispatch_-_Figure_7.png /sarc

Gadgetbahn ist Nuisancebahn. With something as important as getting from one place to another on time, in once peice, on a reasonable dime, why would you throw innovation for the sake of novelty into the solution?

There's no really meaningful stops between Kitchener and London, this is where the speed is made up. High speed has more to with service pattern between Kitchener and Toronto than it does with technology or maximum speed. The Kitchener-Toronto corridor is definitely capable of supporting various...

From the viaFast study as well as the Ecotrain Report, I remember that one critical piece of infrastructure for both 200km/h and 300km/h service on a single Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal route was a new ~70km right-of-way connecting the CN rail line near Ganonoque to VIA's track north of Smiths Falls...

Between Eglinton and the waterfront on the RH alignment, if you're not in a floodplain, you're in the bottom of the ravine. If the Don Branch is used, you're 50m over the ravine and DVP or beside a hydro ROW. Compare this with a Pape-Thorncliffe Park-Don Mills alignment and the choice for...

A shorter distance means faster run times. Highway 27 also makes a better connection point for express bus services. The station infrastructure at Etobicoke North is minimal and would need to be completely rebuilt when the rail corridor is expanded to 4 tracks from 3 for all-day 2-way GO. The...