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A retarded guy masturbating in plain view to the sight of a young girl in the aisle facing him. A devil worshipper. A kid's hands getting pulled into the slots that the doors slide into and the whistleman nudging the doors by pressing the open/close button quickly to release his hand without...

What the heck are you guys talking about?

The downtown crowd is getting exactly what they deserve. They can't say, "we want new downtown subways", and "but don't touch our quaint streetcars". If a candidate came out and said that they would abandon the downtown streetcar network and divert that money towards a DRL, the idea wouldn't...

What did those people do? ... get off at Yonge? Didn't the driver see the double yellow up ahead before pulling out of Museum (double yellow means a route to Lower Bay, double green or yellow over green means the switch is set for St. George.

Steve Munro and I discussed this once and we both agreed that a line cannot be threaded there -- this discussion came up because there was talk of taking a branch off Yonge south of Rosedale and routing it into L. Bay. Since you guys all view Steve as a de-facto Transit God, can we put this...

I saw the new improved Museum station -- looks awful. The original 60s version looked much better. Downtown loop? ... where's the benefit in that? -- the idea is to AVOID transfers at Bloor, not create a new one at Bay. If we wanted to do that, we'd just install an x-over west of L. Bay and...

I'm just telling you what they told me. They would not reopen Lower Bay -- they would just use the tracks through it to ferry passengers between lines. It never ceases to amaze me how stupid and arrogant some people on this board really are. Before you open your mouth, you should realize that...

Diversion was well signed and announced this time around. Talked to two TTC employees and they said the TTC is so impressed with service conditions through the Y that they intend to use it again this summer for additional track work on the main line. They also mentioned that, given the...

I'm talking about the 2-route non-interlined Keele-Eglinton, Woodbine-St. George setup.

BD Signage Sucked ... even in '66! Joe -- I'm old enough to comment on subway signage issues. I know you're a fan of the old BD signs in that Leave-it-to-Beaver-ish '50s font, but the truth is that even those signs sucked. When it comes to signage, the TTC could never get it right. I know...

For all you transit buffs, the Bloor-University Y will be open this Victoria Day weekend as the TTC routes all BD trains through it to Museum Stn. Passengers will get a chance to see the lower platform of Bay Stn., which the TTC closed in 1966. By routing trains off the BD section of the Y...

It's impossible to put a subway under King with the PATH system there. Are all you geeks good at is drawing lines on a map? Your best bet for a DRL is a short parallel line under Church St. from Bloor to Union with all the same stops that Yonge has, OR, a southerly extension of the Spadina...

You could build a short Church St. subway south of Bloor with all the same stops that Yonge has -- that would provide the best B-Y relief. Or disconnect the Spadina subway at Spadina and Bloor -- run it down Spadina Av. into the core and then the Avenue Road Y can be put back into service to...

I don't think Rossi's numbers add up (see what George Smitherman has to say about them), but the tide is definitely shifting away from LRT. The general public doesn't see LRT as a solution to our traffic woes.

OK ... just call it TRANSIT CITY PLUS -- at least that's what he's calling it. That'll save you 25 seconds.

Well, another mayoral candidate just jumped on the subway bandwagon. Rossi figures that by selling off strategic pieces of Toronto's assets (Hydro?) and eliminating the city's debt, the $450 million the city currently pays each year towards that debt can then be redirected to subway...

Go look at the A, D, and E in NYC. They meet just like our wye.

The winter problem is pretty easy to fix if the reaction rail is heated to prevent ice from forming on it between trains. As I understand it, when a train passes over, snow accumulations melt slightly and then re-freeze before the next train passes. This process continues until the ice...

In all the ways that count, the RT *IS* a subway. ICTS with 6-car Mark II trains on 90 second headways can move over 20,000 people per hour. My prediction is that after 2015, we'll see a policy shift and the line will be upgraded and not converted to LRT. By then, all this LRT hysteria will...

The idea was to send every 4th BD train from the east and west (during the busiest 1/2 hour in the AM and PM rush) through the wye and onward to Finch. Trains from the west would head to Upper St. George after leaving Spadina. Trains from the east would enter Bay Lower but not stop there...