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Even if you don't drive, it's always worth having a license and staying in practice by renting a car every now and then. As for Steve Munro's lack of driving experience, I was a passenger in a car long before I knew how to drive and I never understood the convenience and emotional connection...

Rush-hour subway -- to save money. It's only there to relieve the Yonge line, and outside of rush hours, it's not needed. If the Yonge line was a 4-track system, as it should have been built, like Lexington in NYC, then we wouldn't be in this stupid mess.

People here forget why University was built -- it was the DRL of the 1960s, and after the wye closed, most passengers stopped using the line. There was no reason to use it anymore because the Yonge stations were closer to their final destinations. A transfer is a transfer. In fact, even...

Jarvis or Sherbourne is too far -- when University opened, it was dead because the stops were too far from Yonge -- Church is the closest you can get to Yonge -- a 3 min walk. Stations would be ... Sherbourne (new lower level) Wellesley Carlton Dundas Queen King Union (new lower level)

We should debate his opinions on transit. That would make for an interesting read.

In Manhattan I suppose you can get away with never driving a car, but here? Even so, a driver's license is the gold standard of identification in Ontario and Canada. Everyone asks for a driver's license as the first piece of ID in anything you do ... banks, gov't agencies, etc. etc. ... and...

The reasoning behind a Church subway is to get the stops as close to Yonge as possible. Any further away and it's not as attractive. Building under Bay St. is impossible.

Another idea is to build a parallel subway under Church Street, south of Bloor. I never understood the need for a full DRL. This could be a rush-hour only subway, and a connection to the subway from Sherbourne could be easily built.

He's very intelligent and articulate, but I wonder why he's never driven a car (phobia maybe?). Maybe that explains his realm.

Wow -- everyone here is pro-subway. This must be the anti-matter universe to Steve Munro's blog. There, if you post a pro-subway comment, you get torn to shreds by the old coot and his loyal followers.

Most Spadina passengers would make their switch to YU at Union and backtrack a bit. The current YUS Spadina platform at Kendal Av. would be abandoned and the connection would be relocated south for a more convenient transfer to BD (for those wishing to make the switch at Bloor St to approach...

Yes, this is true. A successful Eglinton crosstown line combined with a Yonge extension to Richmond Hill will completely overwhelm the Yonge subway south of Eglinton. However, a Spadina subway south of Bloor St. would mean that we could abandon the 510. Along Spadina Av., the subway could...

The DRL will never get built, and even if it does get built, we're talking 25 years out. Breaking the S from YUS would only impose one transfer to get on YU, but the DRL imposes two transfer moves to get on YU. I would not support the split unless BD trains were once again interlined for a...

Actually, the subway does stop in front of my door. I wouldn't have it any other way!

I'm going to show my age here, but I actually rode the integrated system in the summer of 1966 when I was a summer student. I used to take it north on University (from King) and then west on Bloor. When the system changed to separate routes, I was always forced to stand after the switch at St...

Densities are irrelevant -- we don't need to turn Finch and Downsview into Kennedy station with artificial transfers to LRT. 2070? Nobody can predict what's going to be needed that far out. Do you have a crystal ball or something?

The problem with the DRL is it will impose two transfers instead of one for the majority of passengers heading downtown. Those two transfers could deter a lot of passengers from using it. Even though the integrated system was slower by about 7 minutes on average (because trains would go into...

Reopening Lower Bay isn't a fantasy. Our subway system was never designed to operate in a separated way during rush hours, and, by having two major subway lines cross each other just north of downtown, we created a problem that now requires a DRL. If the TTC really didn't want integration...

Steve Munro doesn't support the Yonge extension to Richmond Hill, and he doesn't support a subway or ICTS along Eglinton -- I suggest you read his blog more carefully. I am fairly certain his LRT lobbying has changed the policy directive at the TTC from subways to LRT. I don't want this to...

The only way you can interline with the DRL is to create wyes at Dundas W. and Pape that allow trains to run both in a circle, and from the outer ends to downtown and in reverse -- otherwise you cut the Bloor service west of Pape and east of Dundas W. in half. I don't think ridership on...