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A College St subway wouldn't necessarily be that much of a speed improvement. I can consistently bike faster from Donlands station to Christie station than it takes via the subway -- my wife and I did this comparison a few times in the fall. Any College St subway worth building would be slower...

"Second Union Station" would actually be at Spadina and Front, not Bathurst. The current GO Bathurst Yard spans from Bathurst to Spadina.

To illustrate Agincourt being suburban, here's the Toronto walkscore map: http://www.walkscore.com/CA-ON/Toronto It's pretty orange.

The new streetcars are designed for all-door boarding. The driver is in a private cabin with no rider-driver interaction possible. There's no way to retrofit pay-at-the-front-door-and-only-the-front-door boarding on them. I think the plan is to have on-board fare machines at all the doors on...

1. The station at Kennedy is hated. The plan to move it underground to the concourse level to make the transfer easier was introduced before Transit City, back when the plan was to upgrade to ICTS Mark II. 2. The most expensive part of the guideway is the tunnel past Ellesmere. That tunnel is...

People bike there whether you put in bike lanes or not. Biking with several feet of bike lane separating you from traffic is safer than biking in the gutter. Context: I bike to work via Warden or Birchmount in similar traffic speeds, and I'd love to see some bikelanes on suburban arterials. The...

Here's an illustration of Gweed's Parliament route and one that I think is more reasonable:

Castle Frank is not a destination. It can never be a destination. It's surrounded by deep valleys, a huge cemetery, and some rich people mansions. Having it as terminus would be as hated as Kennedy. How are you getting down into the Don Valley? A gigantic viaduct that will make the abandoned...

I know you're spitballing, but there's no way anyone in York Region would choose a Gormley GO station in the farmfields of 19th and Stouffville Road over a subway line to a part of York Region where people actually live. Trains on the Richmond Hill GO line run in the peak direction for part of...

Is there any word of a GO Bus tracking application? The Stouffville GO bus is routinely 20 minutes late going counterpeak from Unionville in the afternoons, and it would be nice to know when to expect it.

Oh great. Someone redrew the *alignment for illustration purposes only* map from the study report that explicitly did not study alignments or station locations while removing the *alignment for illustration purposes only* message from it. Also, they put Cosburn station at O'Connor rather than...

Why do you keep saying Ford proposed this? The ability to run trains through has been part of the proposed Kennedy station design since the first Eglinton LRT study. Unless I missed an actual design change (as in, new station design drawing), what TTC keeps vacillating about is whether they'll...

I don't have a source, but the last official rumbling I heard was to add a south-side platform to lower station. This would move the staircases further south on the upper station and distribute passengers better. It would mirror what they've been doing with the passenger management barriers and...

Or they could have waited a couple years and rolled out a fleet of Google robot cars instead for much more convenience and a lot less capital cost.

My satire detector is failing. That sounds like a very expensive way to junk 8km of well used subway in favour of a less direct alignment. Considering how many proposals we get on this forum to tunnel the Richmond Hill GO line through Leaside in order to shave a few minutes, I have to assume...

Yes, that peak number for Sheppard almost but not quite justifies having a subway between Yonge and Don Mills. There already is a subway between Yonge and Don Mills, though.

I don't think it makes sense. Shorter lines are easier to operate reliably, both lines go through an expanded Union Station streetcar loop so a hypothetical transfer is easy, and I don't think platform dwell time is a concern. Waterfront West would come in via Bremner and the Air Canada...

There is precisely such a requirement. The operator will be in a locked cabin entirely separate from the passenger compartment. There is no one to collect coins or tokens, and I would very much hope that TTC does not spend money inventing an extra machine that spits out paper transfers in...

Hopefully, they'll string the catenary at the same time they lay the tracks.

Fun fact: DRL in the Network 2011 plan was Skytrain rather than Toronto-style subway. The alignment went that far south because they needed a place for a new Skytrain yard.