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Or we could just build the Queens Quay East, Cherry St, and so on streetcar lines as planned for less money and the same if not greater capacity. It even connects to the new streetcar garage. Don't tell me that something that requires two elevators and two escalators per station is cheaper...

Surprise: Taken from GraphicMatt's site.

I rode the one in Las Vegas. It was like Scarborough RT but even worse. Creaky, bumpy, altogether an unpleasant ride.

It's not a proposal. It's a story to cover-up the actual plan, which is to sell off land in the portlands at firesale prices so they can avoid raising property taxes for another year. It's a plan to squander long term assets in order to buy short-term votes. There's never going to be a monorail.

Are you proposing bulldozing a right of way through buildings parallel to Sheppard or building a subway down the middle of Sheppard? Third rail at ground level is generally a bad idea as people will kill themselves. You'll need a ridiculous amount of fencing. If you are doing overhead power...

I ran out of funds on my Presto card last Thursday, so I filled it up online and configured autorenew. Friday? Insufficient funds. Monday? Insufficient funds. I called customer service and it turns out that, once you run out of funds, you can no longer refill a card online. They expect me to...

Pink and Purple are pretty regular for me at 7 and Warden. You make it sound like it's a bad thing. I wish TTC would adopt the same no-short-turns-ever practice.

Does everyone in this discussion realize that Toronto HAD electric trolleybuses up until 1993? Replacing streetcar lines with trolleybuses is the wrong way to go about it. First, we should replace some bus routes with trolleybuses to prove the technology, if for no other reason that...

How are you avoiding a third new station at Downsview? Ford is not the type to propose creative interlining schemes.

The only sporting event the Fords are likely to care about is the Superbowl.

It's a convenient fig leaf. Ford knows that there's no chance of a Sheppard subway happening, but as long as he keeps promising it he can get away with cutting transit elsewhere. "Transit City? Oh, we can cut that. I'll build you Sheppard instead." "New streetcars? Oh, we can cut that. I'll...

LOLWUT? You sound like a teenager who's read one book and found religion. Please read more books. Just because a theory is neat doesn't mean it's true. "Why did the Austrian Empire fall? Mozart!" Oy. A civilization IS its cities. Civitas - city state Civis - citizen Civilization...

YRT subcontracts its bus driving to five different companies. It helps compartmentalize the strikes, but labour compensation rates are similar to what the TTC pays.

Pray tell, what subways do you have in mind? Do you expect people who ride the Queen streetcar to take Ford's Sheppard subway as an alternate route?

The Richmond Hill GO line is being extended to Stouffville Road for 2013. The new station will be called Gormley. There are also unfunded plans for a Phase II extension to Bloomington: http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/improve/projects.aspx Also, did you intentionally reroute Viva Purple...

Most commuters get downtown via GO and subway. Only a minority drive. Driving is not efficient. Driving is the opposite of efficient -- it's extremely inefficient. A highway lane carries a maximum of 2000 vehicles per hour. Yonge subway carries a maximum of 36,000 riders per direction per...

I'll be amazed if the DRT proposal goes any further west than University Ave, and I very much hope there'll be more GO stations downtown before a hypothetical DRT starts getting extensions.

Improving the Main St-Danforth GO connection may be an easier way to handle the express demand. If price is no object, we could have a DRL with standard downtown stop spacing on a Queen alignment as well as a new underground GO station on Wellington.

Back when I rode the 190 regularly in 2004-2006, the worst part of the route was the bridge over the 404. It's a narrow bottleneck that affects all of the bus routes on Sheppard. Extending the subway would eliminate the bottleneck. Also, per Jane Jacobs, highways are extremely pedestrian- and...

There's a reason why we don't build residential neighbourhoods in flood plains in Toronto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hazel#Canada