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The pent up demand for the 401 is enormous, the required toll to bring the most congested sections up to an average of 50 km/h in rush hour would be significant, and likely reach Highway 407 East (non-ETR) pricing.

The linked PC Party Platform is from after Ford was elected to leader of the Progressive Conservatives. In the 2022 election, Ford reiterated his commitment to building Highway 413 Phase 1 is complete, Phase 2 is still underway.

It was in the 2018 platform, Patrick Brown was PC Leader when it was readded to the platform. Here is a clip from the 2018 platform https://www.poltext.org/sites/poltext.org/files/plateformesV2/Ontario/ON_PL_2018_PC.pdf Here is an article from 2017 noting Patrick Brown pledge to complete the EA

Hamilton is the fifth largest city in Ontario, Brampton and Mississauga are significantly larger than Hamilton. And Waterloo Region is also larger than Hamilton, which is why the Kitchener Line is getting a fair bit of attention, that is soon to be 1.5 million people benefiting. It is worth...

once you stop thinking of VIVA as a transit project and more as a jobs program it stops being a disgrace, and more an ingenious plan to gyp the province out of billions of dollars.

I charted the 1/501 ridership v the Dundas bus ridership. Caveat, BT ridership is from Fall 2023, MiWay ridership is October-December 2022 (that is what I had from Ryan). Regarding the LRVs, from what I understand, the Hurontario LRVs are two car consists at 200 per car, for a 400 per consist...

The Parks Department has told me they aren't even remotely considering the possibility of preserving rail capacity along the corridor

I am awaiting the big change in September, which should see a wide range of routes experience significant improvement. The June change was weighed down by the need to train 50 extra operators to cover the spare board, due to elevated absenteeism compared to before the pandemic. As that should be...

The surface option for the Main Street Extension is now $900 million, and the tunnelled option is now $2.8 billion. Additionally, staff does not want to have the tunnel dug from both ends because it would be more expensive, despite them needing to dig a hole the length of the station box at that...

I have not heard that it is confirmed to be back on, but given how little work has happened at Gateway Terminal on building the station it seems like it would be feasible to reintroduce it as part of phase 1.

EA documents are here https://www7.mississauga.ca/documents/TW/sqone-dr-ea/Appendix_A2_PIC2_Summary_Report_part_2.pdf I am curious how this might change with the LRT loop running on Confederation Parkway

Expect continuous incremental improvement

I think that it is both a trial thing, and also Brampton Transit has a shortage of buses. I would expect next year to bump it up to hourly service by adding one bus, as BT vehicle access improves, and the route demonstrates it doesn't need to be subsidized as much. I have heard from people...

January, February, and March ridership data is out. How much ridership? All of the ridership. Even February at 3.4 million. https://www.brampton.ca/EN/residents/transit/About-Us/Pages/Ridership.aspx

The Heritage Block RFP notes that the City intends for the Riverwalk flood control project to be done in Late 2028.

Staff within BT have zero confidence of the LRT extension to downtown being completed before 2030, there is simply too much work to be done.

Brampton Transit is short literally hundreds of thousands of hours relative to ridership, they also need far more buses than they have. They have probably run the numbers and deemed it not worth it.

New CBC article on Brampton Transit https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/brampton-transit-budget-1.7158957

McCannell Avenue is provisioned to be as wide as Dufferin Road 109, suggesting an extension via that

A significant portion of MiWay ridership is people coming from Brampton. There is a reason the MiWay routes running to Sheridan get packed, and also why Derry has such robust ridership. While this is likely to curb Brampton's absurd growth rate, we are unlikely to experience 20%+ ridership...