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Thanks. I see now that the building on the left I thought was in the background is actually in the foreground, cutting off the last bit of the ex-CityTV building.

Are my eyes deceiving me or were there seven columns of windows facing Queen Then and only six now?

This. All this talk about selling naming rights and debating which names are more suitable is all silliness until people start looking at the actual numbers. What would be a reasonable price for some entity (corporation or university or whatever) to pay for 'naming rights' for a popular...

That's a rather meaningless argument since most transit users also have purchased a vehicle, even if they aren't in it at that very moment. Even for those who haven't purchased a vehicle, presumably they have spent that money on something else, generating similar sales and other tax revenues...

Absolutely. What I mean is that if we are looking at just the two choices: 1) Have private company contribute 20% of cost for 100% of toll revenue for 20 (or X) years. 2) Public pays 100% of cost and gets 100% of toll revenue. After 20 years, will the public have paid net more money via 1) or...

I was basing it on Dougie's musings from the cited Star article: When he said "a real creative company", I assumed he meant a private company and not the taxpayer. I admit to being a little hazy on this accounting. How is this beneficial to the costs/revenues for the government vs public...

That's the key. I think if one were to do the rough math, one would find the toll amount would be completely unreasonable. Here's one attempt at the numbers: Say we've got 100,000 cars/day on the Gardiner (and we'll assume they'll all be tolled). That's 500,000/week (5 days/week). For 50...

Try some back of the envelope math. How much might it cost to tunnel the Gardiner? How much might one expect to make on developing the land above? How much would that leave to charge for tolls? Are there many people who would pay that final number?

I agree that they should, however one needs to identify where the money is going to come from. The city is currently putting everything in the Sheppard basket. Both the Feds and province have big budget deficits and little interest in digging even bigger holes to dump more money on Toronto...

No, because the problem is peak capacity south of Sheppard (more like Eglinton to Wellesley). If you were to siphon off southbound trains at Sheppard, then you'd have gaps south of Sheppard, leaving you with less capacity than you do now. Besides, there is not any current infrastructure...

How is an express bus over 4km a 'terrible travel option'? It's running time from Yonge to Downsview is about 10 minutes, not significantly more than a subway over the same stretch would be. The Sheppard extension would be built to cover a segment of the 196. The DRL would be built not to...

At this point yes - there are far more pressing demands for major transit infrastructure (eg DRL) and I've yet to see a substantive ridership projection that would remotely justify a subway along that stretch. With respect to the argument that people could travel on to Downsview to escape...

Ok, so you don't want to use any existing usages to justify subway, so what ridership numbers do you think there are like you who would take a Sheppard subway enroute to York if only it existed? (I thought the current discussion was only for the Sheppard west extension, but why not make it...

Fair enough. So let's take current peak frequency of every 5 - 6 minutes with half-full buses. We'll be generous and say that's 12/hour with 30/bus, giving us 360 riders per hour. What would be your guess as to how many riders there are out there that don't know about the 196 but might be...

And extending the existing Sheppard subway line west to Downsview would change your required transfer how?

A good benchmark for the utility of such a Sheppard extension would be the 196 York Express bus whose B branch runs from Yonge & Sheppard, stopping once at Bathurst and then at Downsview. The running time for the Yonge to Downsview stretch running express would not be much more than subway so...

Is that with the Don River crossings being handled by bridging or tunneling? Are those two costs nearly equivalent or will the difference be a sizable chunk of that claimed $650 million? What are the forecast future costs for construction equipment, material and energy (fuel)? Will they...

Self-styled 300 pounds of fun.

Other than Doug Ford stating he knows "for a fact" that Eglinton will come under budget, what evidence do you have to make such an assertion? They've got a hard ceiling on what the province is contributing yet they apparently don't know yet if they are going to bridge the Don River crossings...

I might find this a little more believable if you could tell me: - how many trains currently operate on YUS; - how many Toronto Rocket trains were ordered; - how many TR trains would be needed to run ATC. Please cite city/TTC documentation.