Ben McCanny

Fingers crossed the lobby turns out nice. Going to land like a spaceship on this stretch

I think it could make sense. Toronto knows how to deal with small amounts of snow (copious salting) - but every couple years a snowpocalypse breaks the city

Grass is always greener, but MTL truly seems more prepared and professional

A distributed surge workforce could be a good fit for TO

Reminds me of a convo I had lamenting a new Toronto neighbourhood plan’s stroads, where I was told that lugging groceries for 10mins on foot was unrealistic

Too bad that’s my reality in amenity-rich downtown 😳

The way things should be, or just the way things are?

I think the average person is pretty unimaginative, and this is the world they know

I wish we had examples of better suburbs in this country to test exactly which attributes people gravitate to in the burbs

Honestly why give it oxygen?

This might come from the same place as the deportations ASMR - but a little perspective might be useful

TIL a place called Sept-Iles is second busiest

But, but - the Safdie's are so clever for casting real people /s

Screenshot of Google Maps rendering of Driftwood and Finch, with multiple duplicate stop markers

Heard you like transit stops, so we put an LRT stop in your metro stop

Yeah. IMO this is what's wrong with the GO expansion approach

Instead of a single line, narrow focus that could be a branded, tangible service upgrade kind of like UPX, we get a diffuse slush fund of slow improvements the public won't understand, or be able to judge the value b/c they drip out

$27B for GO expansion is insane...and they've spent half of it already? On what?

Unpopular opinion, but French announcements are unhelpful Eurocentric cruft

National identity (at least Ontario's version) gets in the way of us being helpful in the languages spoken by TTC riders

Speaking specifically about Line 5 vs legacy streetcars. Did not get quite the same feeling of difference with 6. Might have contributed to the initial reaction to Line 6 as just a streetcar

Yeah - hard to fit in 300 chars, but I agree it's not about the vehicle size. And Line 5 is not what it could be

But I think the legacy / modern distinction is more evident in the physicality than I expected

Very unimportant side note, but for those who said "the LRTs are just trams, why are they on the subway map?"

Riding line 5 and then coming back downtown, the single vehicle streetcars do feel slightly smaller in the way that cities like Portland that have both modes have a contrast in vehicle size

Is there a sense of why 6 isn't performing as well as 5? More signals? Denser stops? Different vehicles?

My similar crayon is an RER-style tunnel for 4 GO lines, linking Sterling Road to Gerard Square via Dundas or College.

Would open up capacity in the union corridor, maybe for Alto, and add rapid transit to the west end in one go

Great pics of the mythical 'purple restaurant' I remember reading about deep in an Urban Toronto thread

I guess the market denial crowd has two modes:

The market is overheated due to speculation / financialization and thus we shouldn't reward it, we should only build affordable

The market is down so we don't need more market housing, only affordable

As someone always searching for justification for my anti-Vancouver bias, maybe you can intuitively sense this about the urbanity of a place?

Lol this is like some kind of reverse ToD

Instead of building housing along the transit line, we put the housing in the middle, so residents can access the amenities of the house neighbourhoods via the train

That's good to hear. Sounds like you got someone more knowledgeable

The rep I talked to at yesterday's consultation (a 3P consultation person I think) kept saying CN/CP were more powerful than the government, and that a downtown station would require lots of tunneling

the game she‘s playing is kind of worse, no? trying to have it both ways undermines Canada more than if she declared herself a separatist

Doug Ford calls for ‘boycott’ of the Chinese EVs Carney is letting into Canada Expressing fears about the future of Ontario's automotive industry, Ford urged Canadians not to buy the 49,000 EVs.

Honestly, nothing could increase my interest in a Chinese EV more than doing the opposite of what this dunce wants

www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

What if there's no angle, and he's just demonstrating why he was the wrong pick?

Please Carney be good in this one specific wonky way

Wouldn't work in Toronto /s

Ugh, wasn't this road planned for grade separation, but stalled by nimbys?

Simultaneously undermine Carney, feign support for Ontario workers, AND get to trash tech he doesn't like for being insufficiently right wing-coded?

Doug will push that button every day of the week

Re: streetcars and on-street parking, I do think there is a big difference in road safety between open 4 lane roads w streetcar tracks (encouraging weaving and overtaking), and removing parking to create Bathurst-style red lanes (separation of modes in a controlled way)

I don't think the province (across govts) comes in for enough criticism in their underuse of GO corridors and slow-walking of improvements

We built the 4tph UPX with smaller vehicles, saw an uptick of commuters using it, and said never again