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Monthly Archives: January 2016
The challenge of getting to the bus stop
It’s time for a rant on suburban transit, and how unnecessarily difficult it can be to get to the nearest bus stop. Transit has a harder time in the suburbs. Population densities are lower than in neighbourhoods developed before the … Continue reading
Posted in Brampton, Transit, Walking
Tagged Brampton, Brampton Transit, Bus stop, Scarborough, Steeles Avenue, TTC, Zum
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Armed with facts, the Toronto Relief Line Alliance is launched
The Relief Line is a subway route intended to reduce crowding and congestion in Toronto’s existing subway system. Planned for over a century, we may finally see work started in a few years. If Toronto finally puts shovels in the ground on … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Toronto, Transit
Tagged Downtown, FAST, Relief Line, Subway, TRLA
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Yet another transit plan for Scarborough (Updated)
Updated with a link and discussion of the Scarborough Transit Planning Update, released earlier today. It’s been an eventful few days for transit watchers. Late last week, we found out that John Tory’s SmartTrack plan will be clipped to an initial phase between … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Politics, Toronto, Transit
Tagged Scarborough, Scarborough-Malvern LRT, Sheppard East LRT, SmartTrack, Subway
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The least-worst alternative for the Gardiner East
Back in May, I outlined the reasons why I supported the removal of the elevated Gardiner Expressway east of Jarvis Street. Of the various options, which included maintaining the existing highway, a so-called “hybrid” section that would maintain most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Toronto, Uncategorized, Urban Planning
Tagged Gardiner Expressway, John Tory, Pam McConnell, SmartTrack
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A vision for King Street
In today’s Toronto Star, city columnist Ed Keenan reports on the “King Street Visioning Study,” a city planning project that will soon be available for public feedback. The study proposes improving streetcar operations along the King Street Corridor between Dufferin and Parliament Streets as … Continue reading
Posted in Toronto, Transit, Urban Planning, Walking
Tagged King Street, Streetcars, TTC
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A smarter SmartTrack
John Tory’s original SmartTrack plan, shown with the existing TTC Subway and GO Rail networks. In Friday’s Globe and Mail, we were treated to a scoop by Oliver Moore, that newspaper’s excellent transportation reporter, on behind-the-scenes revisions to Mayor John … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Toronto, Transit
Tagged Eglinton-Crosstown, John Tory, Metrolinx, SmartTrack, Transit, TTC, UP Express
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Metrolinx’s strange priorities
Map of the Eglinton Crosstown LRT showing the original working station names along the corridor It’s too often that we hear from business leaders, planning experts, and pundits that politicians should be kept out of transit planning. To some degree, this … Continue reading