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I think you guys are putting too much emphasis on the TTC and not where the ultimate determination is made.......City Hall. It is the City that controls the transportation dept and the TTC has to work within those mandates whether they like it or not. The TTC has absolutely no control over...

It's embarrassing that Yonge is probably the most pedestrian unfriendly major street in the city. Seriously, is there anywhere on Yonge between Bloor and King where someone can sit outside on a patio? I don't mean around the corner but on Yonge itself? The sidewalks are uneven, ugly pavement...

It probably will be a couple decades before catenary streetcars become the norm rather than the exception but it will happen. Toronto's current fleet is fairly new and by the time they have to be replaced in 20 or 30 years, battery trains will be the norm rather than the exception. This will...

This ground power supply looks like a solution looking for a problem made worse by the fact that it's not even a solution. I think putting street power supply in a city like Toronto is asking for trouble. Not only could the snow be a problem but also the snow plows which could damage the...

A Finch southern extension to a new GO Woodbine station makes a lot of sense but don't hold your breath. It will be a very long time before there are any extensions to the LRT system. Eg & Finch have left such a bad taste in Torontonian's mouths that they will be loath to see it happen all...

I don't think so. I think that argument is something created by your gutless Mayor and company to make it look like they are taking a "balanced" approach. Just because people drive in the suburbs doesn't mean that they don't appreciate that transit is vital to the workings of the city. They...

Yes, the current acceleration on the GO fleet is anemic but one has to remember that on the RER sections, GO will not be running the 12 car monsters they have now but probably 4 or 5 car trains so acceleration will improve. The benefit of these EDMU/Loco is that their efficiency and operational...

You raise a good point about having some trains running full route length while the underground sections doing a short-turn. The problem, is that such a system would significantly raise operational costs. When a system is automated, it doesn't cost a cent more to run a train every 2 minutes than...

This is a good idea and such trains are known as Electro {not electric} Diesel Multiple Units {EDMU} and the term is commonly used for locomotives. These are the trains I wrote about in the GO Electrification thread. They are NOT battery trains but rather 100% ICE vehicles. They are...

That will NEVER happen. The long suffering people along Eglinton have been put thru hell for the last 15 years and now that the line is finally finished, the very last thing they will tolerate is to start construction all over again. This is made exponentially worse by the fact that ML has a...

A BRT/streetcar/LRT are as fast or as slow as you want to make them. It has nothing to do with the technology but rather how the system is set up. If you converted VIVA to rail, having so little signal priority, so many stops, and such horrid frequency, your LRT wouldn't be any faster. The VIVA...

I remember saying YEARS ago that I didn't see the advantage of this line being LRT as opposed to a BRT and seems I was right. There is nothing this line can do that a proper BRT couldn't at a fraction of the price and vastly shorter building time with much less construction mayhem. Bus-only...

Streetcars/trams an LRTs can be equally fast and reliable and also equally the opposite.............they are what you make them. Generally speaking, what separates streetcars/trams from LRT are the features of the vehicles themselves. The basic technology is the same but LRT vehicles have 3...

At this point, I think it's fair to say that ML has no intention of starting any electrification for years or even at all. Hence, GO's best option for now is to go the EDMU locomotive route. Not 100% clean but still a very marked reduction in both emissions and particulate matter, offer faster...

The debate is not dumb but rather why we have to have it in the first place is. Of course, with dumb, you can also throw in shocking incompetence by Metrolinx. After a decade of ML promising electrification by 2025, all they do, in 2025, was announce they aren't going to do it. In a decade, the...

Pages ago, it was posted that the speed along the street running section was 19 km/hr. By getting rid of a couple of stops and aggressive TSP,, ditch the vision zero, and increase speed limit to 70km/hr, there is absolutely no reason why they can't get that speed to at LEAST 25 km/hr. That...

This lack of signal priority is made more difficult due to these damn left-hand turns. Now, ML seems surprised that it is a problem. When it comes to infrastructure there is no such thing as a surprise but rather just a lack of forethought. Had they had any at all, they would have implemented...

This line should have been a subway which means it could also have elevated sections and it should have had far fewer stations on the underground and especially at-grade sections. While the TTC and the City are responsible for the current slow running due to it's stupid vision-zero policy and...

Well just when Torontonians thought that the Second Coming was going to beat the Eglinton Line, it opens. The great news is that it seems like Metrolinx, politicians, and the TTC have genuinely been listening to TTC patrons and have learn that speed does matter to people and have responded...

Obviously streetcar priority is a great idea and well overdue. One of the problems implementing it in Toronto however, is the number of stops. Light priority is more difficult to implement the more stops you have and Toronto stop spacing is simply too close to one another. Of course allowing...