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Why build anywhere near the GO network we are spending billions of dollars on when we can let a municipality dump 10 000 people in a farmfield to get those sweet sweet property taxes to keep subsidizing insolvent sprawl. This development is outrageous.

Was it still running at the early testing crawl or closer to what service speeds on this portion should roughly be?

With the awarding of the construction contract to Aecon, it seems safe to say that the moronic NIMBY campaign to have this portion of the line tunneled in a flood plain has failed and the stations will be built elevated as stated. Metrolinx is on a real streak of not letting projects get mired...

Is land use planning even real anymore. This is the last place in the region 5k people should be getting dropped

A common theme in the thread seems to be concerns over traffic in the area, and I have never been to the neighborhood other than flying thru on the allen/subway so i'll assume it to be true. I'm curious what people feel could be done to address the congestion with the understanding drastic...

Yes this is an oddity of the network i've never seen an explanation for, but on row lines the TTC feels the need to slow at intersections, but on mixed traffic lines with much tighter lines of sight and tighter streets no such regulation is in place. If anything this really just shows the...

Exactly, if this really is true then every lrt project in the country should be scrapped ASAP. Any form of on street transportation that supposedly necessitates a near full stop at every intersection regardless of the signal is not a viable form of urban transit. I'd also like to note that our...

Do we make buses go through intersections at 10km an hour? Is general traffic crawling through intersections? Genuinely what is your argument?

Would this project be one of the first developments seeking to build on low rise residential directly facing onto the LRT corridor/adjacent streets? I took a walk along Finch from Kipling to Jane the other day and was shocked at the number of backyard fences that front the street, with seemingly...

I am not familiar with Hamilton planning at all, does this mean they want to preserve views of the lake/city from the mountain?

I'm sure this has been answered somewhere before, but does anybody know why the second station on the Bowmanville Extension is going to be constructed essentially a block of from the planned higher tier transit on Simcoe Street on Oshawa? I have been unable to find any detailed plans for the...

Thank you very much for laying all this information out, I doubt such a comprehensive history of the areas road network exists anywhere else on the internet! It's shocking that in the 1990's the city allowed for a whole block of still not that old suburbia to be razed, looking on google maps I...

I appreciate your dedication to detail, but I was mostly making a joke lol

In terms of services, I was referring to the additional bureaucracy that developments within these designated zones must go through, as I believe @HousingNowTO made some light of the parking lot going through a heritage review further up the thread. I should have clarified, these heritage areas...

So strange the frequency at which drivers hit light rail vehicles. They really are no different in size and length than an 18 wheeler, which there are already plenty of in the GTA.

Can we just build one of these all the way up Dufferin?😂 Honestly tho I think this guideway will be groundbreaking for the way elevated rail is thought of in Toronto and will hopefully allow for a whole lot more of it.

On a more related note, this strip of Bloor is shaping up with a really nice fine grain row of high rises, a breath of fresh air from the super blocks we usually get. Waiting to see what gets proposed on the gas station, i'm guessing it will push for 30s considering local precedent and sitting...

Yep, the Bathurst Stn loop is practically the only 'greenfield' left in the core when you look at what the majority of the land actually is. Very ridiculous that such a cash strapped agency is not trying to make money off their prime real-estate. Maybe each loops land profit could be used to...

really? had no clue that occurred especially in this weird spot which hardly seems worth rallying a community over

If we had the stomach to implement real signal priority like Kitchner I would agree with you, the cost is prohibitive. However not separating this section of track from traffic will mean ATC has to be cut short 2.2km of its potential terminus at Don Mills, which is also a major interchange. The...