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done so. some support transit lanes, others oppose completely. only one took the initiative to *know* their customers and did a survey of them, to reveal that a minority arrived at their clinic by car.
many business owners are speaking for their own convenience to park, not their customers'.
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given the split of the silver line and now the partial extension of the yellow line all the way to greenbelt, this makes toooo much sense.
it also better represents wmata as what it actually is - a 3 line regional metro with a couple branches
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a shame, i famously love the TTC wholeheartedly
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when line 2 gets new trains in a few years, my relationship with line 1 will be ended 💔🥀
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this is reall?? hello?? 😭
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while a systemwide funding decision is far away, i am at least hopeful that the dundas station pilot will be funded just so the public and TTC leadership can fully appreciate the benefits of platform edge doors in the subway in the next 1-2 years.
read more here: secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...
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TTC seems interested in a full-height but unsealed design, which means the top of the door is open and air can flow freely. this is good for reducing costs since it means no overly expensive changes to ventilation or mechanical equipment.
the installation would be phased into the 2040s.
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good time to call or email your councillor 🫡
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removed the pilot*, that is
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councillor saxe conceded to chinatown BIA and removed it 😬
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511
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ford and the transport ministry are scared now that Metrolinx can't control its PR nightmare, especially with the recent GO expansion fallout, and rushing to separate themselves from it.
but this is on the provincial government, don't forget. metrolinx is basically an arm of the province.
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LA had that culture too, until they turned their back on transit for a while. i will say that drastic bus service cuts are a big factor, but also building a lot of low-priority, lengthy rail lines to suburbs instead of focusing on heavy ridership core corridors
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too much thoughts here, but now that this is finally public and out, i hope the calls to completely dissolve and rebuild metrolinx governance/management to match the needs of this region are stronger.
no more dinosaurs who believe they know how to operate a railway better than those running s-bahns
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it is absurd to hear this from MX's austerity officer. toronto is a bigger, more populous metropolis than sydney. there is no basis on the claim that a rail network akin to sydney in toronto is "not needed for the next 30 years".
at this rate, go expansion will take 30 years anyways. frustrating
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nonetheless, metrolinx micromanaged and obstructed the hell out of DB/onx, and managed to add years to this project out of their unwillingness to accept the necessary reform that would require upturning their operating model.
this is a shit ton of public money and time wasted.
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MX's own inability to embrace change has crushed any hope of electrified RER style train service for at least the next 10-15 years.
no railroad in north america has any expertise on running an RER-type system at scale, and DB was the closest we would've gotten to having a "surface subway".
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yea, i do admittedly enjoy the waterfront a lot because of how marginally more accessible the streetcar is. perhaps more fences to discourage incursion into the track is needed for that. since they won't commit to fully pedestrianizing the waterfront, i see no loss in a semi-permeable barrier.
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this city still believes that sunday is for god, and has some weird small-town ideals. the libraries used to open at 1:30pm on sundays too.
they recently funded shifting the opening time to 7am on sunday, i don't remember when that's happening though.
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unforch the expense of that tunnel is really holding back the entire project from funding. a vast majority of the price tag is just that tunnel. if we can afford a way to build it more affordably, then that is ideal - and yea, the remaining issue is jogging north to union from qq
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DC metro will now have better weekend service span than the toronto subway, by the way.
our subway only opens at 8am on sundays. service officially ends on all days at 1:30am, though you'll still catch outbound trains until 2am
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take public transit, cycle, walk, whatever. if you have to, take an actual taxi, driven by a worker who actually has a living wage with benefits
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projects like the wilshire subway & extension of the crenshaw line into hollywood could shift this.
LA metro in 2000: 1.321m daily riders (186k rail)
TTC in 2000: 2.427m daily riders (1.1m rail)
LA métro in 2025: 940k daily riders (200k rail)
TTC in 2025: 2.56m daily riders (1.35m rail)
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alas, toronto drags its heels when it comes to improving streetcars, even with basic things like preventing its transit users from being hit by cars.
riding a streetcar shouldn't feel like gambling with my life, especially at night with low visibility.
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a traffic signal is a lot more universally understood by drivers than rules around streetcars in this city, and better prevents conflict.
had to wave down the driver twice last night to not drive into us while leaving the streetcar, bc they didn't understand what was even happening 😬
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no doubt, ikea can't possibly skimp over such an iconic part of nyc life
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the bus lanes are along queens quay east, with some sections, loading bays and queue jumps on other streets as well.
while other bus lane projects have been in planning hell for years, this one was installed just 2 months after a design was revealed. political will matters!
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you know you live in a transit city when ikea just has it's own swedish version of the local transit card as a prop 🥰
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imagine having no bitches and thinking it was cuz you didn't have a car