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Land available is the reason. They are going to make it work via transit running into the station via Albany St from Simcoe Road, and GO Transit buses via First Ave. The on ramp to the 401 is proposed to start at Simcoe and First. Presumably buses terminating at Oshawa GO would now...

Wasn't VIA recently putting a dummy car at the back of the train due to concerns about the crash worthiness of these aging cars? At some point it would make sense to find a new creative way to give sweeping views of the front and back of the train with a fleet that isn't heavy and ancient.

The rumor attached to VIA not using the Barrie line... did it speculate property acquisition to build a wye on Canpa at the Mimico yard? The options are: new wye at Canpa (add connection from Canpa to East) [land acquisition and new track, eliminate train reversing] new north to East...

I wonder what headways they were running on the Yonge line for the New Years rush. This is one of those times that if there were frequent GO services I have to believe this crowd would have been dissipated more easily. Right now there is only one frequent service out of Union which clearly...

If that is true, that is a crazy interaction model. Metrolinx needs to leave pristine intersections for the city to dig up all the streets in between the intersections? Surely they could demarcate areas of responsibility so that Eglinton doesn't need to be dug up for 15 years straight.

Yes, that would be a city project... like Eglinton Line = province, and Eglinton Connects = city. The provincial part will get built, the councillors will complain about how the province mismanaged the project because the project is so late and over budget, and despite the elapsed time the city...

That is the ONxpress contract. What GO does before the ONxpress contract delivers its electrification and signalling improvements would no doubt be extending the life of what it is doing now with marginal improvements at best. The current plan doesn't complete until 2032. That means that...

What unique conditions exist here that would affect the right choice for rail vehicle other than the service we are starting with which is "low frequency rush hour commuter service" which is exactly what this project is meant to get away from? A choice of locomotive pulled bi-levels leads to...

I'm not sure how long it will take until we see them, but I'm pretty sure we will. I don't think 14 billion dollars is going to be spent just to run a few more GO bi-level trains per hour. Metrolinx could easily have continued its double tracking and station construction works without this...

All the way from Jefferson to Atlantic :)

I'm curious how they would describe the primary user base for this station. The design focus seems to be Union Street and bus connections, but my gut says the demand is St.Clair (Stockyards and streetcar). Knowing they are going to build a new St.Clair underpass and Davenport overpass, it...

Those Sublevel 2 concourses look optimized for side platforms on Line 1, the walls they put in at the south end of the Line 1 when they shifted the platform north look temporary, and the escalator from the existing concourse to Y&E never was optimal and with the redevelopment will seem out of...

It seems that the goal of the stations entrances were to maximize the service area of the station (to make it closer to more customers) and not to maximize neighbourhood connectivity. The one entrance provides an excellent connection to Liberty Village and Atlantic @ King, the other entrance...

For all the things you would think that you would have a public outreach on, you would think the renaming of landmarks and major streets would be one of them. There is a policy on renaming streets requiring 75% because there are real costs to businesses updating website, signs, business cards...

Being able to move people across the tracks more effectively and ensuring access between Liberty Village, CNE Site / BMO Field, and the GO station is maintained throughout the construction of the Ontario line and the massive station that will be built here.

You haven't seem comically undersized bus passageways until you have been on a bus pulling into the Avenida de América bus terminal in Madrid. The buses goes through thin passages, tight turns, and not much in the way of emergency escapes are seen. Buses can barely pass parked buses, and the...

The current design has 18 bus platforms all in the unpaid area. Looks like 4 could handle articulated buses.

I don't think that will work in the Ambassador Bridge's favour. The Gordie Howe Bridge will have 36 US inspection lanes (21 non-commercial / cars, and 15 commercial / trucks). They will adjust staffing to optimize throughput on the main crossing.

The Salvation Army building isn't going to have a connection to the station. It is sitting on top of and in front of the mechanical and vents built for Line 5, but there are no vents, doors, or anything else connecting the two. At the end of the project there is a building entirely owned by...

Unfortunately there currently doesn't seem to be a plan to make the Eglinton subway station more whole. Even the 2180 Yonge plans show a small entrance building on the corner for some reason.