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This guy advocates for impossibly narrow streets: http://www.newworldeconomics.com/archives/2009/071909.html (Linking is not endorsement.)

Vulnerable is a more accurate description than dangerous, I think. Alternate approach to stop fatal bike-car crashes: Ban driving on major roads.

A smell test is also known as a sniff test, smoke test, or sanity check. It's an informal check to verify that nothing glaringly obvious was missed during the latest set of changes.

In addition to the usual crimes of expressways -- wasting large amounts of space, cutting communities in half -- the Allen fails at its core function. Specifically: - The Allen fails at connecting Bathurst and the 401. - The Allen fails at connecting north and south Dufferin. I think that...

I expect most visitors to find out about the train when they see the "Trains" sign at Pearson directing them to the platform. I'm surprised about the Presto discount. Air Canada was advertising a 10% discount on UPX tickets sold as part of their on-board meal service, which is still more...

Is there a separate thread for infrastructure, or is everything cycling-related going in here? It might be a good idea to retitle this if this is the catch-all. The current status of the Lower Don Trail improvements is somewhat disappointing: The master plan for the improvements looks good...

Best source I've found: http://breakingprojects.com/junctioneer/cesar-palacio-on-the-ward-11-and-17-regarding-widening-the-road-at-st-clair-and-keele-between-old-weston-rd-keele/

Probably the original map misspelled it and it was Carlyle the whole time. I believe that same map misspelled Sammon as Salmon in my neighbourhood, but the street was never actually called Salmon.

That's why people don't like the Sheppard subway.

Easiest way would be to ban all left turns in Toronto. This would also significantly improve pedestrian safety, as well as eliminate most t-bone collisions. Cars turning left are the biggest cause of pedestrians being run over, as the driver is looking in the wrong direction when turning left...

A relief line along Lakeshore would be useless. The local demand can be easily handled by a new streetcar line, while the regional node that needs to be served is at King and Bay. Also, Metrolinx wants to divert passengers away from Union, not drive more passengers to Union. See Union Station...

It's annoying that GO doesn't run Niagara Falls trains between Victoria Day and July. Last year, my partner and I did a bike trip from St. Catherines to Niagara-on-the-Lake on Victoria Day weekend. This year, we were hoping to do a bike trip with another couple in June, but had to reschedule to...

Last I heard, LA does not allow for transfers between routes. You have to pay a full fare every time you changes buses.

I don't understand why you're using Yorkville -> Summerhill as an example. Both the origin and destination stations are mid-block minor stations. They would have been eliminated in a stop rationalization of the sort you're advocating, so that there'd be no stops on Bloor between Spadina and...

I highlighted the 5s in the report's summary table:

To no longer run the Georgetown/Kitchener trains all the way to Union, so as to avoid the pinchpoint between the convention center and the skydome.

It's at Spadina. "Bathurst Yards" go from Bathurst to Spadina.

Both Mississauga and York Region have Presto and time-based transfers within their respective regions, but you still need to pay a new fare when moving from one region to the other. It will (hopefully) be the same with the TTC: Time-based transfers within the 416, instead of the current...

This is the option Metrolinx selected for future study: You may be thinking of City of Toronto's maps, which is running its own studies, though only one or two of those shows a Western arm.

Easy. Streetcars are red. LRVs are green.