Colleen

Don't worry, the escalator ramp up from the food court is still under construction. Makes it really feel like home.

Right now, Mount Pleasant is the only stop between Yonge and Bayview (1.8 km). If it were above ground, I can imagine them putting in 4 stops. I prefer the longer stop spacing (and I say that as someone who lives midway between Yonge/Mount Pleasant) but it generally hasn't been the TTC's preference.

I'll leave it to transit-knowers to talk speed limits & signal priority (I don't think we'll truly know about these until we get some rush hour experiences anyway), but I think one contributor to decent speeds isn't the underground tunnel itself but how higher station costs mean wider stop spacing.

I rode it and I still don't believe it. Thinking maybe I entered some sort of alternative universe.

The big news for winter haters like myself is that the underground passages are open at Eglinton again. One less block to walk outside!

An Eglinton LRT train pulls into Cedarvale station.

Smooth sailing eastbound from Eglinton West to Kennedy. Ran into @kevinrupasinghe.bsky.social and some brave souls who had caught the first LRT and were headed home. A long wait but more of Toronto is now a little bit closer.

Everyone booed at Don Valley Station and chanted "Science Centre"

Some Bloor-Danforth scheduled speed numbers. stevemunro.ca/2025/12/09/s...

Yeah, the underground section is fastest. Or is scheduled to be fastest, I guess I should say. The dip at Yonge is similar to what you see at Yonge on the Danforth line so I guess that's just the impact of a busier station with more loading and unloading.

Lots of interesting stuff about funding models and contracts that can probably be applied beyond bikeshares. Involving other agencies or companies in a service that uses public infrastructure (and ideally integrates with public transit) isn't necessarily bad but the details matter!

Lies, damned lies and statistics. Between this from Edmonton and Toronto's mayor claiming "73% of housing starts are with City-led or supported projects," my nerdy wish is that all governments publish absolute numbers alongside any claim about percentages or relative changes.

"Out of 25 transit projects that started in 2011 around the world, from Beijing to Instanbul to Moscow, the Crosstown is the last to open."
Also lol at the Jamaican patty cost estimates.

Future Model has the planned/approved and under construction. East of Yonge is... okay (by Toronto tall-and-sprawl standards), although that's partly due to provincial overrule of Midtown in Focus). West, yeah, I agree with you. www.stephenvelasco.com/midtown-in-f...

Yes, they went with the "cheaper" option on many stations (penny-wise, pound-foolish). Won't support building above, except with cantilever.

Feels a bit misleading. There's quite a bit planned at Bayview and some in Leaside (depending on Employment land conversions) but they're not constructed yet. And if they had built them for when the line had been supposed to open, people would have been on crowded buses for years.

I think this is mostly Ontario. Although of course any province/municipality will take the money if the feds are offering.

#yeg now has $62M/yr of new revenue from mature neighbourhood infill compared to 2016. That's over $330M added to city coffers

All using the same roads, pipes, preserving farmland and enabling neighbourhood-level shops.

All of this is thanks to Edmonton's pioneering approach to urban redevelopment

One thing about tower-in-the-park style is many have big semi-circular driveways. I'm not saying that's great urbanism but at least you're not losing expensive interior space to garbage. And towers in the park get way more hate from planners (and councillors pretending to care about loneliness).

We're doing the dance again. Keep Edmonton the most affordable large city in Canada!

Email council now 👇

9 Toronto police officers facing charges related to tow-truck violence: source | CBC News Nine Toronto police officers are facing charges related to violent incidents involving tow trucks and operators across the Greater Toronto Area, multiple sources tell CBC News.

"Officers are accused of trafficking, leaking addresses to hitmen, and leaking police officer addresses, the sources said.

The investigation also uncovered a conspiracy to kill a unit commander at the Toronto South Detention Centre, the sources said."

Holy Christ. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Why are we designing homes near transit around the needs of the minority who own cars?

Parking minimums raise rent and raise emissions.

A surprising failure of imagination from the councillor who imagined one of the most vibrant parts of her own ward as dystopian. But what both imaginings had in common was a failure to accept that some people live differently from oneself.

Ottawa to focus foreign aid efforts on building ‘mutual prosperity’ with trading partners, MP says Comments come as the federal government moves to slash $2.7-billion from the foreign aid budget over four years

Carney said the foreign aid budget wouldn't be touched. Now they're laying off GAC staff and moving to be more "selective in... aid distribution by focusing on countries [Canada] wants to trade with." We tell the world we want to serve champagne when we are barely shelling out for sparkling water.

Help Edmonton stay winning. Consider Toronto as a cautionary tale.

And imagine the time and money that we can save by not having to figure out what Councillor Perruzza is talking about every month.

Darlington nuclear plant refit completed early and under budget First announced in 2016, the refit of the four Ontario Power Generation reactors was intended to keep them running until 2050.

I'm sure it helps that it's a refurbishment, but 9 years for a nuclear project is my new metric. The City of Toronto has been talking Lawrence Heights revitalization since 2007, officially kicked off in 2015, and they still don't even have a development partner. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

Cities are for people!

"Maybe the city's full" says the man living in a 2.7 million dollar house on Palmerston, while sipping $170 scotch after defeating a multiplex proposal across the street.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...

GO Train derailment

GO Train derailment

crews working on tracks

UNION STATION - SIGNAL ISSUE

GO Train derailed at Union Station.

GO says "signal issues" at Union.

www.reddit.com/r/gotransit/...

Next Stop: Davisville Stage 1 of the project is now complete and the final reports are now available, please refer to Information and Reports below. Additional information on the project will be provided in future updates....

I went to a meeting about Davisville a few years ago. The idea was to use development to fund the engineering of the build over, new park space and affordable housing. Don't think that anyone had actually done the math on it. So, basically, Toronto happened. www.toronto.ca/city-governm...