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Arguably the newly realigned mouth of the Don River fixes the Don valley flooding problems by allowing a much greater outflow into the harbour. I'm not sure if Metrolinx is factoring that into its Richmond Hill line plans, or if it's only considering elevation changes to the line as an...

The other other option is to close a lane or three on University, which was proposed by Public Work in 2020 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-how-toronto-can-turn-university-avenue-into-canadas-most-innovative/

The specific project that Metrolinx choosing to aggressively re-grade the valley messes up is the Don River Valley Park: - https://donrivervalleypark.ca/ - https://www.evergreen.ca/our-projects/don-river-valley-park/ I've been following the park for a long time and I think it has a lot of...

I've spent decades reading threads on this forum about how Kennedy station is bad because people have to take several escalators to get from SRT to the Bloor-Danforth subway. People hated those escalators so much they got the province to spend many billions to extend the subway. Escalator...

Yonge subway is the busiest, highest capacity subway line in North America. For Yonge line to have higher capacity, it would need four tracks rather than two. Things can't operate at 100% capacity for sustained periods. You need unused capacity -- clear space on trains -- in order for people...

Branches halve frequency. Branching UPX means that you'd have twice as much UPX service at the Bloor GO stop than at Union GO I'm not clear on why we would want to interline Ontario Line and UPX. Is it to better serve people going from Riverdale to Pearson?

Thanks for sharing! It's an interesting PDF to peruse. I do wish connectivity to and through the Dentonia Park Golf Course had been within scope of this report

The Ontario Line process confuses me. Why do we still not know the rolling stock? We knew the rolling stock for Eglinton and Finch LRTs years before construction started. There are people on the internet that will wax poetic about the amazing capacity of Ontario Line rolling stock, but we don't...

Except at Moss Park station, which is only getting one exit somehow.

Exhibition is an odd terminus, but Ontario line has a planned station at King/Bathurst so the walk time is 0 minutes The rail tracks go directly to King-Roncy. King-Roncy is the one part of the West End that would not be skipped by a hypothetical extension along the rail tracks

I believe the original justification for Exhibition station is one of those forced transfers like the one at Kennedy from the subway to the SRT. It's to allow GO to terminate some trains at Exhibition instead of Union and make the passengers take the Ontario line the rest of the way. Metrolinx...

Plans for 2023 completions make me nervous because that's after two elections -- provincial and municipal. I'd love to see more completions in the first half of 2022.

Perhaps. I'm going mostly off who funded Ontario Proud in the last election: - Who the donors were: https://noraloreto.medium.com/who-funds-ontario-proud-76a56ca92de1 - MZOs for them in Durham...

407 being tolled is a figleaf. The urgency behind the 413 is Ford campaign donors that want to plop down subdivisions on farmland in North Brampton, and need the 413 to juice the prices.

Yikes! (O'Connor is East York, not North York)

Shhh 🤫 Our Premier is not a railfan who has actual opinions about modes. He's in it for being the one in control, and for getting those sweet sweet construction industry kickbacks. He has no plans to ever visit Malvern, and so what happens east of McCowan is not his problem. He just wants...

The awkward thing about limiting this tomfool highway to a 427-400 link as a compromise is that's the part that's the most environmentally damaging. East of 427 the route goes through farm fields, but between 427 and 400 it goes through the greenbelt with all the headwaters and sensitive...

Are you including paving over in the tear down? 8 years if you take the dates from Waterfront Toronto (2016-2024). Arguably the process started before 2016. 2016 is just when city council chose Hybrid Option 3 2 months if you are only interested in the Logan ramp demolition start to end...

Autonomous buses, yes. Those will cut the labour cost of running buses by a lot and allow better frequency and more off-peak service. Autonomous cars aren't going to do anything for the modal share. They are just as inefficient at road space as regular cars. You can't fit more cars on the road...

Very cool map, andrewmaps! I was wishing for something in this format, and it's amazing to see it become real. I do think it undersells the Cosburn, Jones, and Greenwood bike lanes. Cosburn is a nice spine, while Jones and Greenwood connect to the Dundas and now Danforth spines.