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LOL ... actually I did move. I live at Bathurst and Bloor now ... right on the subway, and now I still have to use my damn car to go out to Mississauga to work. The company I work for moved from downtown to Miss. after I moved down to be closer to work ... so to everyone who says move closer...

$1.2 billion for a Finch West light rail line, and 40,000 passengers served. That's $30,000 per passenger!

I'm saying we should invest more money in transit downtown, and more money in roads in the suburbs -- that we will get more bang for our buck that way. We would have to spend 10x the amount we're currently planning to make a difference. With that money, you could buy everyone an electric car...

Yeah, I really care that the Finch bus comes by every 5 mins when it takes me 1 hr 50 mins to go from Finch and Martin Grove to Finch and say, Warden.

You can't fix it - the origin-destination patterns ARE TOO DIFFUSE. You would have to spend a gazillion dollars laying subways in every direction.

Have you actually tried doing it? -- I challenge you to get from Islington and Steeles to a destination in the Hwy 403/10 area by transit in under 2 hours. I hope you've got a strong bladder or are constantly dehydrated.

Not if you take them at the right time. 407 eastbound is never congested. 427/Lakeshore or Gardiner works after 9:30am for a late 10am start. 401 eastbound is hit and miss. West to Mississauga works via 407 or 401/403, depending on the time of day.

I have to get to York U first and wait for the connection ... no? Otherwise I'm taking the Islington 37 down to Islington Stn. and then taking a MT bus ... plus the walking and wait times at both ends and the transfer ... 2 1/2 HOURS! By car, 401 ... transfer to 403 ... 35 mins.

First, it really doesn't matter how often the buses run if they take forever to get to a destination that's across town. Second, the new services you mention wouldn't significantly improve crosstown suburban commutes to the extent that leaving the car at home would become a viable option...

And would Transit City help any of those commutes? No. The commute to Spadina and King would have been helped by the Spadina subway extension though. I will never forget the time it took me 3 hours to get from Vaughan to Markham by transit when my car was being fixed. I almost started...

IT DOES NOT WORK! Here were some of my typical commutes ... I lived at Islington and Steeles ... To Markham (Warden/7) -- 25 mins by 407, 2.5 hours by transit. To downtown (Spadina and King) -- 1.75 hours by transit, 45 min by car. To STC -- 2 hours by transit, 45 mins by 401...

I won't call Transit City Transfer City, but I'll settle for Transit Shitty. When someone like Miller (who lives near High Park station but drives downtown instead of taking the subway), and someone like Giambrone (an obvious dweeb who doesn't drive) make decisions about transportation...

Don't worry -- you'll see subways if you're young enough and live long enough. Things have a tendency to go full circle, and I have a feeling that Sheppard will make St. Clair look like a picnic. Once the Sheppard line is built, and possibly Finch, that will be the end of TC. I don't think...

The funding didn't exist before. It does now. Had TC not been announced, Metrolinx and the TTC would have come up with an entirely different plan -- guaranteed. While the TTC was never a fan of the Sheppard subway, they certainly weren't fans of LRT or streetcars either.

Yes, but whatever subways we are building are being driven by York Region, not Toronto. We haven't built a real new subway line since 1966.

This is a philosophical matter. If it weren't for Miller, Giambrone, and Munro, we'd be building subways as well. My prediction is that once the light rail lines are built, things will come full circle again back to subway construction, but in about 20 years or so.

A DRL is at least 25 years out -- what do you propose we do in the meantime? We have trackage just sitting there that could be used in the busiest AM/PM peak hour. There's no need to re-activate Lower Bay. Just use the tracks through it from 8-9 and 5-6 to get some trains around Bloor-Yonge.

Of course it's true -- the line was dead outside of rush hours until Spadina came along. How do I know? ... I was there. Fetish? ... I'd look up the meaning of the word. A set of tracks and a platform is not going to get me aroused. One more thing ... it's "write" not "right".

It actually is relevant, because we changed how the system was designed to work and bastardized the University line in the process. If the system was kept integrated, there would be no need for a DRL at all right now. The only people changing at Bloor-Yonge would be those heading north or...

Northern Markham to downtown Toronto by TTC? -- that would take 2 hours each way. No offense, but most drivers would say you were nuts.