W. K. Lis
Superstar
Someone forgot to put in and build the stations!
GO Transit Coach 4532 Crossing Osler St. by Vic Gedris, on Flickr
Service started this morning, as seen at Osler St.
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GO Transit Midtown Corridor
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robmausser
Senior Member
CP pulling this along their mainline going "NOW DON'T YOU ALL GET ANY IDEAS...."
GO Transit Coach 4532 Crossing Osler St. by Vic Gedris, on Flickr
Service started this morning, as seen at Osler St.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I don't really get why people seem to like his fantasy videos where he gives no actual reason other than his own personal thoughts as facts and think that it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and that Metrolinx should do exactly what he thinks they do.
EnviroTO
Senior Member
Agreed. I like love the station overviews and updates... the fact based videos which are focused on the images of the station and environment. Great camera work, the other person who comments in some of the videos is great too. I'm not a fan of the talking head here is my opinion videos that are clearly not from someone involved in working with budgets, modelling behaviors and traffic patterns, etc. There are all these tools and models that real planners use to understand the return on investment and how one decision both adds and subtracts ridership, but who cares, Mikey likes it and budgets are limitless. If I see the highlight image of the video is a guy making a strange face then clearly the video isn't going to be meaningful enough to watch.
White Pine
Active Member
Unfortunate that he left out the whole VIA situation, as it's somewhat relevant for this line.
W. K. Lis
Superstar
If Canada ever gets real high-speed passenger rail service, the midtown corridor could also be a good route for it in Toronto.
Undead
Senior Member
Jeez, everyone's a critic!
asher__jo
Active Member
It bothers me to no end that people listen to his ridiculous and outlandish ideas.
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DirectionNorth
Active Member
A Midtown Service (and many of his proposals) are probably never going to happen. I don't think dismissing everything as outlandish is fair, either (and it's an indicator of the frustration with transit progress; we want more transit and we don't care how it gets done).
ARG1
Senior Member
Are some of his ideas fantastical? Maybe, but nothing about them are "ridiculous and outlandish". The midtown corridor is a realistic idea long term. Maybe not 10 years from now, but something like 20-30 years from now definitely. Heck the project was on the 2008 Big Move plan, and if we ever do build the Missing Link, it would probably rise up as an extremely high priority corridor and line.
robmausser
Senior Member
I would never say never. GO has indeed looked into it several times, and if the Missing Link ever does happen, it could be a reality.
Anytime soon though? no.
robmausser
Senior Member
I thought Johnathon English's "City Rail" proposal was rediculous and outlandish, and GO-RER work has already started.
Updated - The CityRail Concept: Real Regional Rail for the GTA | UrbanToronto
Jonathan English looks beyond the OneCity Transit plan to CityRail, a concept which would bring rapid transit to underserved areas of Toronto and across the GTA sooner and at less cost than other methods. Could a version of this concept get traction here?
(keep in mind this post is from 2012 but Johnathon originally proposed this idea back in 2010)
DirectionNorth
Active Member
I don't really see how outlandish it is, what's the major difference between City Rail and GO RER? Almost everything in that proposal (excluding a couple of stations) has been discussed seriously at some point or another.I thought Johnathon English's "City Rail" proposal was rediculous and outlandish, and GO-RER work has already started.
Updated - The CityRail Concept: Real Regional Rail for the GTA | UrbanToronto
Jonathan English looks beyond the OneCity Transit plan to CityRail, a concept which would bring rapid transit to underserved areas of Toronto and across the GTA sooner and at less cost than other methods. Could a version of this concept get traction here?urbantoronto.ca
(keep in mind this post is from 2012 but Johnathon originally proposed this idea back in 2010)
W. K. Lis
Superstar
Downtown used to be below Bloor Street (1950's). Today, it can be considered above Eglinton Avenue (2020's). The "midtown corridor" is now within the "new downtown" (Summerhill & Dupont Subway Stations). Even the Science Centre & Sunnybrook Park Stations along the Eglinton Crosstown LRT could be considered in the "newer downtown". Toronto is growing and in the process, so is the downtown.