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Let Metrolinx Have The Subways I think the solution would be to have Metrolinx have the subways since they are now beginning to cross city lines and act more as a "regional carrier". In addition, it would bring better analysis as to whether GO Express Rail should serve a node or the Subway...

Karen Stintz Twitter I think looking at the Twitter postings, it looks like both Eglinton and Sheppard will be getting some kind of subway/underground LRT; not one or the other... #Toronto benefits with a #TTC line under Eglinton going through Wards...

The Poll Numbers I think we need to clarify the poll numbers here. This is according to Toronto Star on the figures. When asked to pick between Subways and Light Rail: 55% favor Subway 40% favor Light Rail When asked between Subways only, Grade Separated Light Rail, and Transit City...

The cost-benefit trade off is different when we compare LRT to BRT and LRT to Subways. At grade LRT provides higher capacity but similar speeds when compared to BRT. The premium is paid for higher capacity. Grade separated subways provides higher capacity but also higher speeds when compared...

Fare By Distance I think it's time to seriously look into fare-by-distance especially since the majority of the lines proposed by previous subway studies and transit city are in the suburbs meaning they are serving longer distances. This would probably help the cost recovery for these...

I think we should hold off a few weeks before passing judgment. I think he's trying to show that he's not open to compromise right now (like how the Transit City advocates won't open to compromise) in order to have more bargaining power to get more underground/elevated.

Brt While the Sheppard and Eglinton lines have a requirement by capacity to be at least a grade LRT line, have the considered having the Jane, Don Mills, Finch, and Malvern lines be BRT (if they are within the capacity constraints, which IIRC Jane and Finch is)? Like how at-grade LRTs cost 1/3...

Kind of like how the White House tried to boycott Fox News... You may not like the coverage you get, but in the end you need the media's power.

The majority of the Gold line is either elevated, underground, run in the middle of a highway, or has surface operation similar to a GO train with gates and true signal priority (when I was on it it didn't stop anywhere between stations). Stations are also farther than those proposed by Transit...

Rapid Transit Map Comparison If we want to really want to compare our RAPID transit map between Transit City and the Ford election platform, this would be more appropriate: Also, why are we comparing the full Transit City plan (which is not fully funded anyway) with a non-existant proposal...

Looks like the plan will include: - SRT conversion and extension (don't see that dying as the useful life comes to an end) - Some kind of grade separated Sheppard line - Eglinton line with somewhat more grade separation This only at the expense of the Finch line... I think this is a...

Eglinton Line and Kennedy Interchange This point was somewhat brought up before. If the Eglinton line was fully grade separated (essentially making it a "subway" with different vehicles) and connected with the Scarborough line, this transfer would probably matter less as people going downtown...

Also, it looks like it runs in the middle of an expressway so no red lights, so it truly has a fully exclusive ROW, kind of like the Ottawa transitway. For inspiration from a city using many transit modes we can look at Hong Kong: - Regional Heavy Rail: Serving the outer suburbs, but still...

The Compromise Here's my rationale as to why elevated light rail (like the converted Scarborough LRT) is the way to go for the Eglinton non-tunneled portions and the Sheppard line - which is also what I think Metrolinx is trying to lead the TTC to. LRT advocates argue that subway is too...

REad in the globe that it would cost around 100 mil so around the ball park of on street LRT. I think the added cost will probably be worth it as we get rapid transit speeds and we can maintain using the LRT vehicles if we want thus less penalties. How I see is is that they can build the...

I thought I read while back that Metrolinx always wanted the Eglinton line to be skytrain technology so it can connect to the SRT. Personally, I think it's a great idea. Totally grade separated, can still use LRT trains if they want to, and much cheaper to construct than subways, and the auto...

Win-Win Didn't Metrolinx originally want Eglinton to be elevated anyway to meet with the SRT to make it a regional line. Looks like a win-win situation if they get an elevated Eglinton line as Metrolinx gets what it originally wants and Ford gets transit not at-grade.

I prefer myself a Civic line ;). Seriously though, why are we not building stations like the Eglinton underground LRT stations - standard stations that would probably give alot of savings

Hmm... I'm not sure whether it includes the deferred funding or not since in page 2 of the document they break out Phase 1 and 2? Gotta love them NPV analysis.

I took the number from TTC estimates that I believe they presented to Ford: http://stevemunro.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/201012TTCBriefing.pdf