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Careful with this though. Who here honestly thinks the 8th Ave subway is ever going to happen. It's really just been a carrot on a stick. In reality though, maybe it could have been something that could have been used to help develop the Green Line in one way or another with lower risk. The...

Substantiate how what in reality would be skeletal rapid transit for a city that will be closer to 2M population than 1M on opening day should not be a fast train with scalable capacity and frequency. If it should be, high-floor is superior in every regard plus it forces them to not be able to...

Pot calling the kettle at best, at most as ideological as your statement; if they really wanted it dead they would've killed it sooner. Maybe the cost projections should have been done more responsibly and if (no pun intended) the costs have ballooned because of unforeseen circumstances maybe...

This is very true for perception as problematic actors are less noticeable in that situation. This however has no actual effect on whether or not people choose to board a train and shoot up heroin or smoke meth in front of everyone. No matter how much more statistically dangerous driving is, and...

I agree a simple glass cube suffices as an entrance rather than these weird shoehorn looking things. It's hard to tell for sure with the 30% designs but from what we got what I would like to have seen is better integration with surrounding development such as station entrances built into...

Dulles finally has the DC metro going to it, many many years late. Although I don't know if they've fixed the problem of just having almost no rolling stock left to run the system properly. Three things here. 28 min from YYZ to downtown Toronto is very generous with traffic, but I can't say...

Haven't been on this site in a minute. Catching up, reading this one really cracked me up. The fact that they consider 10 minute frequency "very high frequency" (to the point that they think increasing it anymore is some intractable problem) is funny when you look at how Translink runs a route...

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm really starting to get tired of the unfinished left lane on Stoney Tr/Hwy 8 under 69th Street. Never ceases to amaze me how they can consider a road fully opened and then leave it 6+ months before they finish a detail like this, if ever.

Whether an interchange is needed or not there, I think Richmond rd needs it more and also half of the problem at bow/sarcee is generally just being a poorly designed at-grade intersection.

So what were all those extra people doing the past couple years when Stoney Tr wasn't complete in the west yet let alone where we're they a few days ago? Are they suddenly going to go and buy a car because a new road was opened that goes to the same place the old one did? No. Induced demand...

Did I say that?

Induced demand is not a universal concept that applies every time new infrastructure is built. If we want an example of induced demand, Costco adding more rows of pumps at their gas station. That kind of think creates induced demand as there's just so much demand to feed it. The throughput is...

No but 14 St has never been as bad as it used to be since TTN Tr opened. There are only so many people to feed into the induced demand. I don't see how induced demand will apply until there is significant redevelopment in the area which would take years and much population growth

Meanwhile the south Bow River Bridge project still far from being done...

Well then I might be going for a full, nonstop lap around the city tomorrow finally after waiting all these years

Less traffic than 20 years ago sure. The question is how much of this is just a change is due to surrounding road improvements creating a drastic change in traffic patterns. I'm not sure about Centre St. bridge, but MacLeod used to be the way to go if I were to drive to the...

I generally like this idea. They end up removing small roads that are essentially redundant (and also confusing) and get rid of the most underwhelming part of the Bow River pathway as well as converting unused property into a park space. My main concern is that when actually in the hands of the...

It's a sad blow to the airport and for AC crews that happen to live here for sure and it unfortunately reinforces the airport authority's nonsensical concourse free-for-all where everyone can part in any concourse basically. It started with the layoffs and premature retirement of aircraft...

I wasn't able to sleep and felt like doing something. Since they decided the Bow River is a huge body and redefined rapid transit as something that runs on a street "up to" traffic speed I have been trying to dig up the original river crossing options they had presented because I remembered at...

Considering your previous post as well as this: I can see the downsides of lack of grade separation becoming more noticeable with a longer 5 minute frequency service. You notice just how much more efficient the train feels south of 39th or north of Banff Tr where it is mostly or totally grade...