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I love this site, but sometimes everyone goes into Zapruder-esque detail and conspiracy theories about a ... tree being cut down.

We were already seeing the capacity issues back then at Bloor-Yonge, and there had been plans to build a new downtown line to relieve...

Or David Miller will come with the bulldozer shouting, "the money should be spent on LRTs!" I hate when new politicians mess with old...

The McGuinty government stepping up with unprecedented multi-billions in transit funding set the stage. Otherwise Transit City would...

You can blame them (efficient project delivery is surely within their mandate), you probably can't be surprised though.

It was literally the preferred plan for. . . . years?! They had a full design for at least the bus terminal at STC drawn up . . . I...

If you will have stations at A and B, and only A and B, the route you take to get there being "transit unfriendly" is irrelevant.

If the goal is to only go to Scarborough town center, which has been the plan for at least one of the subway plans then it's irrelevant...

Scarborough town centre will still be one of the busiest stations on the network, and given how busy many of the buses in the area that...

If one gets built indeed, and it ought to be one of the few projects that happens no matter what because its short and on the surface ->...

You're talking about the area around Ellesmere like its downtown Toronto, and not mostly wide open industrial lots and a few townhomes...

I did not ask anyone to tell me how something was possible. Someone said "no tunnels are needed" and I gave some reasons we might build...

I care a lot about public transit, and this is where info about what's being built gets posted.

On cost......... I found an FOI for the cost of installation on the Elizabeth Line retrofit in London, UK. Converting to Dollars...

Thanks for the jab Mark. Yes, I like to imagine a future Toronto where we can build infrastructure that other developed world cities...