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I wonder how long it'll take for UPX to be rolled into this... Remember that GO is also planning for express peak-direction trains from Oakville, Bramalea, and Pickering.

Anything's possible if you dig deep enough. Taken from the Union Station Raild Corridor Capacity Studty, sourced here: http://stevemunro.ca/2011/12/02/union-station-rail-corridor-capacity/ Not saying I prefer this option, it would cost over a billion dollars. If connecting track and switches...

Meanwhile in the Fantasy Map thread re: streetcar tunnel extension

Another thought regarding zone fares. You can get rid of some of the impact that smaller zones have by making the first zone crossing free. For instance, Say someone is travelling from Union to Guildwood which is 4 fare zones away. They'd pay the base rate (let's say $2.50) plus 2 zone fees...

For constructability, development, and network connectivity reasons, terminating the line at Sunnyside makes sense as part of second phase extensions. It may be a while before it's possible to relocate the Roncesvalles Carhouse (maybe in the Hydro ROW near the Ontario Food Terminal?) If the DRL...

Here's what the plan for the Union Station streetcar loop looked like in 2009: Looks expensive and disruptive, and like it may have some trouble handling future demand. So I had a thought, Instead of upgrading the Union Streetcar Loop in order to handle the Waterfront West LRT, East Bayfront...

Sarcasm Maybe? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think it's the first one, trying to get all utility relocation and track placement work done in one long closure so they don't have to go back and disrupt the street later.

Sumach consists one one southbound driving lane and another southbound parking lane between King and Queen. Is there room in the right-of-way for grading and a tunnel portal? I suppose you could just close the street to cars for that purpose, but at that point, would a tunnel even be needed?

There are a number of plans that are in various stages of development apart from just an extension of the Cherry Streetcar right-of way (ROW). There are also early plans to extend Broadview ad its streetcar under the rail corridor and connect it with Lake Shore Blvd. Both of these dedicated...

I can confirm that the ION station font has been defined. I can assure you there is a non-public style guide floating around. However, since I didn't design the buttons, I'm not sure whether the font is the same or similar.

Perhaps not directly related to the project, but there are ION station wall buttons now! Find out more here: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ion-station-buttons-by-tritag#/

You'd basically basically be converting this To this Doing the boulevard option later would mean demolishing newly-built ramps connecting the Gardiner to LSB. Possible, but seems like a waste of money rather than if were built like that from day one.

Perhaps I'm missing something (the report that's not released yet), but if it has been determined that it would be more economical for Relief Line to cross under the Don River at Queen Street due to soil conditions, what's stopping the alignment from shifting south on King west of the Don River?

The entire corridor through Guelph needs some major investment. In addition to the very poor condition of Guelph Jct. (connecting the Galt and Fergus spurs) as a major cause of the current slow order, major grade separation is needed between Guelph Junction and the GO station where the line runs...

So, not sure if this belongs in the fantasy map thread, but, whatever. What if the city decided it wanted to save $400 Million off $1 Billion while still reaping the benefits of unlocked land around Keating Channel? What you're looking at is a compromise between this year's "Hybrid 3" option...

In the SmartTrack Western Corridor Feasibility Review, they depicted a SmartTrack station at Viscount to interface with the people mover. I don't expect building a platform for SUPERtrack off to the side of the UPX guideway to be more infeasible than the UPX's guideway was to build.

While the name SUPERtrack is definitely satirical the plan is actually comically logical in comparison to other officially-presented plans with similar names. I've had versions of this line in fantasy maps for a while. As stated before by nhui06, it's going to take until the end of Tory's first...

It's been a busy week transit-news-wise with announcements of a new Scarborough subway plan to build subway corridor parallel to a SmartTrack corridor with no intermediate stops as well as a technically unfeasible Eglinton spur on SmartTrack So, forget SmartTrack! Instead, why not build...

Reflecting on that Hume aricle, and completely aware it's 8 months too late, but could I still ask for the Hybrid 3 alignment brought to grade between Cherry and Parliament, a boulevard between Parliament and Cooper, and ramps back up to The Gardiner between Cooper and Yonge?