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For the record, I will be disappointed if the stations are less well appointed than the Vivastations being built along Highway 7, Viva BRT being a Metrolinx project announced in the same breath as Finch LRT. I'm expecting something a lot closer to the Vivastations than to the St. Clair stops.

Well, no. Finch LRT would just have an underground stop at Finch-Keele with an immediate approach ramp. The tunneling is minimal. Sheppard LRT, OTOH, includes a kilometre worth of tunnel in-between the portal and the underground stop. Finch is a much cheaper project that way. Note that...

Sure it does. In the current plan, there's underground LRT from Don Mills to Consumers Road, ~1km. It involves cut-and-cover tunnelling across the 404, presumably with expensive steps taken to not shut the 404 down.

Well, arguably: 1. Oil production has plateaued and will likely start to decline in a few years. Give that demand is not decreasing, this will drive continue to drive gas prices up. At some point, this will price gasoline out of reach for the middle class and force everyone to transfer to more...

I think McGuinty is doing a terrific job, but regardless I wouldn't want to upload anything that a future Premier Hudak might get his rural mitts on -- and the last thing I'd want is Hudak in charge of the TTC. As much as I might wish otherwise, I don't foresee Ontario adopting Alberta's...

Because property taxes are not the same thing as income taxes. For one thing, property is not necessarily proportional to income. There are lots of seniors in Toronto who own homes but live on fixed incomes, so you can't reasonably raise their taxes very much without compelling them to move...

That talking point is a lie. They shut down our subways every night 1 am-6am for rebuilding and maintenance while the streetcars keep running all night. The Yonge line has been having ridiculous early shutdowns north of Sheppard/etc on weekends for as long as I remember. They've had a couple...

Wide station spacing implies long walks at both ends of the commute. 0.5 km walk to the street, 0.5 km walk along the street, time on transit, 0.5 km walk along the street, 0.5 km walk away from the street adds up to 2km fairly easily.

Canada Line was supposed to be bored but the contractor cheaped out and used cut and cover, digging up the street for years and putting lots of businesses out of business. Canada Line has very short stations and accordingly low capacity. It was running at capacity shortly after completion and...

But non-Torontonian employers who hire Torontonians don't pay Toronto taxes. It balances out. e.g. I live downtown but work in Markham.

Their employers pay Toronto taxes and businesses are taxed at a higher rate the residential.

They completely bungled the routing of the SRT extension on that map. They show it as going straight up McCowan north of Sheppard and then following a rail line. In reality, the funded portion would continue past McCowan along Progress to Markham and then terminate at Sheppard.

The original plan was to duck under the Don Mills intersection, so it makes sense for this to be considered where appropriate.

For the record, my wife uses the Dupont bike lanes to commute to work.

That sword points both ways. A low ridership station is great for construction, yes, but it's also not a destination, which means you'll be running two subway lines somewhere few people want to go. You also can't easily make it a destination after the fact, either. Castle Frank is hard to...

I don't know the exact numbers, but I'd be surprised if a Consumers Park stop turns out to be any more than $100m. The big money would go to Victoria Park, as that's where they'd need a major bus terminal.

And there should have been a Willowdale station between Yonge and Bayview. Provision for one exists but NIMBYs prevented construction.

It depends. As long as what they build doesn't involve too many 90 degree turns or steep slopes, it should be convertible. For instance, the separated lanes Viva is building in York Region are in theory designed to be convertible AFAIK. At the same time, the price difference between BRT and LRT...

That would require a transfer between bus and LRT, versus staying on the same vehicle.

IMHO: - Worst worst scenario is everything cancelled and SRT permanently replaced with buses. - Worst case scenario is Eglinton cancelled and SRT upgraded to LRT. - A bad scenario is Eglinton East cancelled, with Eglinton central built and SRT upgraded with no link between them, - A not very...