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Then why are we doing it? It is not exactly costing chump change. When Eglinton was pegged by Metrolinx as a regional line, Steve got all bent out of shape ... local local local local.

There used to be. All of those people just got fed up of being belittled and went away. The only ones left are the "LRT fanboys". I always thought it was fairly obvious and transparent that Steve's transit advocacy grew out of railfanism. I have challenged him many times on the fact that...

Why is it when I criticized Steve Munro and his views on transit, I got squashed by the Moderator, but Coruscanti Cognoscente gets off? It's funny how the internet blogsphere regards him as some kind of Transit Deity/know-it-all, but the powers-that-be have continuously excluded him from...

That depends -- does your hair reach your ass? Or, is your beard out to HERE?

Well, if that's the case, why do you think Mr. Munro was never offered a position at the TTC or Metrolinx?

I've edited my comment so I suggest you edit your quote, but if you want to get a job in a professional organization like the TTC or Metrolinx, you have to look professional ... OK?! Blogging about stuff isn't more effective than working on the inside and actually making changes happen.

Coincidence -- it was heading in that direction anyway because of the cost of retrofitting B-Y.

Yes and no. He even boasted on his blog a while back that he coined the name "Transit City"; that they called him looking for a name/slogan. Having said that, recently he has become his own worst enemy. Many of the senior planners at the Toronto Transit Commission and Metrolinx no longer...

Question: Why isn't subway being built instead of LRT? Answer: Systematic brainwashing from Steve Munro.

Whether it's Mark I, II, III, IV -- the reaction rail is the same. Vancouver has had problems with their lines in snow as well. NYC doesn't get that much snow, but I suppose they would have the same problem with a heavy snowfall.

The subway doesn't have a reaction rail. Sometimes the buildup of ice on the power rail causes problems on the subway as well.

Even if you run ICTS overnight during a snowstorm, it will still fail. Here's why ... When a train passes over the reaction rail, the heat causes any snow that has accumulated on it since the last train's pass to melt slightly. By the time the next train passes by, that water freezes on the...

ART is cheaper than a conventional subway, and can be outsourced to Bombardier (construction and operation). For all intensive purposes, ART is a subway; it just uses a different technology, that's all.

The perception of ICTS/ART is that it's a mini-subway -- ergo, it ranks higher than LRT. You will never see the TTC downgrade it, or the Sheppard subway.

No -- if the reaction rail is covered, the system doesn't work.

It really doesn't matter since the ROW will be exclusive. The only point about ICTS is it doesn't handle snow very well. Other than that, there's no reason to convert to LRT if the ROW remains fully exclusive and not semi-exclusive. Based on what I've seen, I'd say the SRT and the Eglinton...

Could it be that ART offers a service far superior to LRT?

Suburban streetcars are their first priority, not a DRL or Queen Street Subway. Besides, there are fears that a new downtown subway would decimate the existing streetcar network south of Bloor, and of course, we can't lose our charming and beloved streetcars -- mainly because railfans don't get...

The answer is simple ... There is no way to improve transit on King, Queen, or Dundas unless a subway is built, and Miller and Giambrone are anti-subway. It's up to the downtowners to vote them out.

Look, I admitted that I was a railfan myself and that I prefer streetcars, but I can put that bias aside. When I objectively weigh the pros and cons of streetcars or LRT vs buses, buses come out on top -- hands down. We shouldn't be building expensive LRT systems so that some people (who never...