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Exactly, I was going to point that out but I wanted to to keep my post to a reasonable length. I have never gotten the sense (from day one) that Jennifer Keesmaat ever cared about transit user or even developing plan for the transit users. Her vision of things (which you can clearly see in...

What is the goal of Public transit? To me its: to transport people effectively, conveniently and in timely manner from home to their desired destination & back. Principally, it should effectively provide transportation to and from home to place of work in a safe, convenient and timely...

To add, the Jane and Finch Mall, which can nowhere near be considered a huge mall, stretches from the Jane and Finch stop to the Driftwood stop. If you wanted to go to the Tim Horton's, you would get off at the Jane & Finch stop. If you wanted to go the McDonald's at the other end of the...

Yes, I was referring to the Transitway

Speaking of Mississauga BRT, that service and route is perfect candidate for an LRT service. You have proper stations, You have good spacing of stops (one km plus for each stop), you have complete grade separation, its a road that is used only by City buses, and you have the right density...

The Mississauga BRT has actual stations whereby you can wait inside

There is another major downside in this service is the sheltering at the station stops. I rode a portion of the line Wednesday (just to see it for myself) and on the return trip i had to wait at one of those stops for about 5 mins and i kept wishing that the stops would protect me from the...

A number of people in this thread have mentioned the " 20 minute number" and i agree with that. Twenty minutes for the whole 10KM distance should be the goal, not the 30-33 mins that the Metrolinx specs indicated when the project was conceived. At 20 mins that's a average speed of 30-32...

Here is what I predict will happened: They will find a way (likely through signal prioritization) to reduce the commuting time. But that's where the smokescreen will occur. My estimate back in 2016 (whereby i compared the commuting time/speed to that of a good marathoner or 10k runner) was...

Sorry, I am not sure what you are getting at. I am not sure what I said about LRV, you might be thinking of another post by someone else. Maybe we clarify this at the next TFC game in march

Phew. Thanks for setting the record straight. The commuters who have to use that line from Humber college can now be re-assured that jogger might not be able to outpace the Finch West LRT afterall.

Then why is it called an LRT? this is another thing i found frustrating. That line is a streetcar service plain and simple. That's what it looked like 10 yrs ago and that what it is now. Look at other projects out there such as the Hazel McCallion line in Mississauga or the Ottawa...

I don't mean too blow my horn too much but here is another post of mine (from that same discussion in 2016) whereby I alluded to fact that with this kind of station spacing (i.e.: 18 stops for 10 Kms) , a jogger or a marathoner will/would match this pace. But i was a bit wrong here, It...

This (above) post of mine from from 2016 has aged very well because it turned out to be true 100%. Now that the Finch West "LRT" has opened and we are are hearing the stories of frustrated users and how joggers are outpacing the "LRT". What I find frustrating is hearing that signal...

Yes. With private sector projects, the sub contractors know that the delays (and ensuing costs) will drive down the Internal rate or return and that there exists a point where project is no longer viable and hence the project will be cancelled . The subcontractors know that. But on government...

No doubt. I was aware of that. Nobody is advocating a return to the labour conditions of that time. But surely there has to be middle ground somewhere. Is it really a labour issue as to why there is descrepancies between 1885 and today? I dont think so, todays workers would be far more...

It took four years to build the CPR. It went across canada and through the rockies. Other than surveyors maps, little would have been known about much of the terrain in 1881. 140 years later its taking twelve years to build a 25 kms LRT line from Mount Dennis to Kennedy road. Through a...

Thanks for the clarification. I certainly wasnt 100% sure about the exact details surounding the lrt plans. The tolls part i was.

Both the champlain bridge and the Turcot interchange had to be replaced because they had reached the end of their usefull life. The economic studies commissioned by the various levels of govt concluded that it was not economically viable (and maybe not possible) to do the structural maintenance...

Solar energy is also more expensive to produce from what i know. And, its not new. The first solar panels in homes that i ever saw was in europe when i visited in seventies. This tells me that the technology is pretty mature and therefore your are not going to see any economies scale or...