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Grand Central Madison in NYC (the new, deep-underground wing of GCT, for the Long Island trains) has exactly this. There are two sets of departure boards. One is the conventional list of next trains, chronologically; the other is an alphabetical list of destinations with the next train listed...

Something that struck me on a recent trip to Melbourne - a city so similar to Toronto it's almost creepy - was the difference in stop light numbers. Rough estimate, but on a street of similar scale to Queen or College they've got about 50% less. You can debate the merits, but one thing it does...

The way the MGT wends around the buildings looks *a lot* like Marina Bay Sands and Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. Which isn't the worst thing; the path there is an excellent and well-used public amenity, and rather generously proportioned. But hard not to feel this is a massive missed...

Never understood why, basically uniquely in the world, Canadian cities all have these silly ‘YXX’ airport codes. No other country seems to have this constraint. How much would GTAA have to pay the owner of TOR — Torrington Municipal Airport, Wyoming — to get their hands on it and join the ranks...

You think labor laws are lax in Japan?

Wild guess of what's coming: a REM-style DBFOM plan to build the South and North legs of the Relief Line in one go, perhaps using lighter but still subway-ish technology. And perhaps a couple of south-of-Bloor stations removed to provide a faster "regional" ride to the core. Like I said, wild...

This This is exactly what Singapore is doing with its new MRT lines. Of course, they're going faster than one per decade.

What’s to become of the sales centre? Surely there isn’t enough room for another phase.

Yep. Moorgate/Liverpool Street are going to be one giant station, with exits at either end of the Crossrail platforms connecting to each. Great for multiplying connections but will require users to know a bit about where they're going.

The probable difference: the bare-minimum standard of public realm design and implementation is just much higher in Vancouver and environs. Both the underground and elevated sections of the Canada Line got very, very nice street-level upgrades rolled in as part of the construction, and as...

If there's money to be spent, I would much rather see it used to extend the same street treatment westward (at least) to Spadina, and east to Sherbourne. Bloor from Avenue west has some very handsome buildings and of course a couple of critical cultural institutions, and deserves better.

I am certainly no fan of buses but to be fair I have experienced them all over the world, from international flights at big airports: Frankfurt, Istanbul, Munich, Heathrow, HKG...

FWIW, in New York these sorts of places tend to have grass largely fenced off, eg in Madison Square Park, with only limited sections available for dog-walking/sunbathing etc. And they look amazing. Though much of that is down to privately-sponsored maintenance by the local conservancies, BIDs...

With so many brand-new buildings that obviously have fully underground servicing, what are the odds Hydro takes the opportunity here to remove the hideous wooden poles along Bathurst to replace them with something befitting a modern city? Who am I kidding, I know...

London has done a lot to make the city more pedestrian and especially cyclist-friendly. The cycle superhighways are pretty amazing. But there's a very long way to go. The six-way Bank junction, which has to have more pedestrians than just about anywhere this side of Shibuya, is almost absurdly...

And WestJet’s plans to do the same, on smaller scale, in T3.

So, the "temporary" concrete jersey barriers in the Front Street Plaza are still there, despite the talk of removing them after the knee-jerk reaction to the Yonge attack. Pretty surprising (or, I guess, not) considering what was spent on creating an inviting and high-quality public space. Would...

Yes, Air Canada. There were two other very big AC widebodies parked next to mine, which looked to have received the same treatment. The airstairs had a sort of plastic bubble overhead, but it leaked badly - tons of rain coming through in ragged streams. The best part was after entering the...

I had the pleasure of disembarking off a long-haul onto buses today in the pouring rain - from a fully-loaded 400-passenger AC 777. Took about 10-15 minutes just to get the stairs in place, with flight crew making periodic announcements to apologize profusely for not being able to obtain a gate...

Apple Pay does indeed work in London on tube/busses and (I believe) national rail within the London commuter zone.