Transit enthusiast making videos covering the planning and construction of transit projects in Southern Ontario.
On twitter I take about a wider range of things happening in the transit and urbanism space, as well as Toronto centric topics. I also make transit fantasy maps from time to time.
I'm excited about the future of transit in North America!
change route part the line above ground l want 2 station langstaff/longbridge station/closer Richmond Hill centre station highway 7 have terminal station have washroom ☺☺ closer go train and bus viva bus project open in 2032 five stop steeles station clark station royal ochard pubilc washroom langstaff/longbridge station pubilc washroom Richmond hill centre station 🤗🤗 new yard overnight 15 subway train 25 growth new subway train 😁😁 viva bus connect vaughan metropolitan centre station to richmond hill centre station 😊😊 next eight year away 2032 design station
change yonge north subway extension rname back 2station rname langstaff/longbridge station closer to call /Richmond Hill centre above ground highway 7 new teriminal 25 new growth train viva bus connect vaughan metropolitan centre to Richmond hill centre new train storage facility Richmond hill centre new yard overnight start construction 2024 open in 2032 next 8 away
Eastern waterfront is weird and scary past parliament. There is a big construction area blocking everything off, looks industrial and deserted, there is no stores, no good street lighting, etc. That construction site needs to be gone.
That's a big reason why construction of the streetcar needs to happen now, before it's developed. The majority of construction should be wrapped up in a few years!
@@transitthinker honestly without a big changed to that area, I wouldn't even want to walk by there. The vibe is all wrong, feels like life-threatening crime is about to happen any second.
Don’t forgot about the people that work on the island like myself. I work in the food department with Centreville amusement. Taking these ferries everyday is a dread as it’s always standing room only and people are really shoving and pushing you. I would love to just see better crowd control and new ferries 🙏🙏🙏
I love how we insist on opening up access to the waterfront, but we aren't willing to take advantage of our biggest natural resource for transit and getting around. We just talk a big game. Some world class city this is. (Metrolinx needs to take over the ferries. They'll do a better job of expanding water transit than the TTC/City)
Yes. Metrolinx is the answer. They have a stellar reputation and have never come in over budget or past deadlines on any project. They are completely transparent and accountable as well. This is a great idea.
@@TagusMan your problem (I presume with the ECLRT) is with SNC, not Metrolinx. It took them a long time but they’re finally coming close to meeting their objective for existing. Metrolinx is getting a bum wrap and they’re not the design, build or maintenance teams for any of the projects currently underway. But your sarcasm is noted. Not in any way contributory to the conversation, but duly noted anyway.
4:05 - The integration with presto is biggest one for me, recently visited Sydney Australia, where their entire ferry network is linked into the opal card system, absolute no brainer for Presto in Toronto.
The city has been looking at using the Presto card for the ferry for years. The ferry is run by the city's Parks and Recreation department so it's not just a simple matter of putting up fare gates. This is just one of many city projects that need funding and it may not be one of the higher priority projects.
i mean if the city was being proactive there would be serious conversations about high speed ferry service all over the GTHA. Imagine high speed ferries from Hamilton, to Port Credit, Toronto, all the way to Oshawa.
on the west side, they need to extend the subway to Vaughan Mills and Canada's Wonderland, this will take out a lot of traffic congestion, a lot!!!!!!!!
We all know this project is 10 years away from 10 years away. These videos are just to look like they are doing something. Let’s be real. They are doing the environmental assessment NOW? After close to a decade of “discussing” the “possibility” of the extension? Please
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
Toronto has grown so fast and so big and yet City Planners and Politicians at all levels of the government fail to equip the City to excel. It took the City years of negotiations to get the crosstown subway to start building but then all sorts of mismanagement leading to cost and schedule over the budget. While bike lanes are absolutely important for the safety of the cyclists City needs to understand before you take away the road space, which is already limited to begin with, for bike lanes, you need to have provisions such as more subway lines to ease (or take away) the vehicles congestion first. The planning, if any, seems to be fragmented and not fully integrated and run by various departments that each only concerns with its own mandate and not the City as a whole.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
If you look at the history of Line 1, it was originally going to loop east along Steeles from York University and hook up to the Yonge segment at Yonge Steeles--a much more practical design. If the Spadina extension to Vaughn has demonstrated, the Yonge extension to Richmond Hill will be a money pit.
Wonder why we can’t separate yellow line into two lines Line 1 can be red line from Rhill to union Line 2 yellow line to York U Line 3 green line east west line Line 4 purple line extended to Yorkdale to donmills This would increase efficiency
Line should have been there 20 years ago. Toronto is so far behind almost every other city in the world. Its should be in Newmarket by now, way out into Mississauga, up into Markham and well out to the edge of Scarborough. Toronto Transit and environs is a joke.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
I’m not trying to be a meaner here and I mean it’s great that the place is finally getting some transit, but honestly, all it really needed to do was just build a denser city like New York. That alone could have saved us from all the trouble that we have today. Lol Like the fact that a city that only has 5-7 million inhabitants(GTA) could get such a horrible traffic(even worse than New York metropolitan area which is easily triple or quadruple the population) proves that how badly they designed the city.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
@@noorpagambari116 well, generally speaking Asia and Europe invest heavily into transit. Japan transit is still one of the best today even tho they built everything more than 60 years ago. But yea, liberals party is really ruining Canada, but I think they r done for sure this election.
Love the Documentary. However, these stations will never be opened! At least not in the next 20 years! Plans for this extension has been back in 2015! And nothing has progressed so far!
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
@@noorpagambari116 This country has no future! And it is big sarcasm that the future terminus is called - High-Tech! Check out the Google Maps, and there is nothing High Tech at all!
I would rather have frequent GO service on the Richmond Hill line than another Yonge subway expansion. Streetcars should serve the urban core, subways should serve Toronto's inner suburbs, and GO Trains should serve Toronto's outer suburbs. Instead we have a slow, inefficient streetcar network downtown, oversized subway lines to connect the outer suburbs, with scattered LRT lines, and a suburban rail system that will be good in the future but at the moment is... eh...
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
Yeah it's it's a popular myth that's been debunked. But I think Dundas Street might be as it goes all the way to London and is named that in London and in most points in between.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
The narrator of the video, just in the 1st minute of it, addresses the eastern part of Line 1 having long ended at Finch Station. There was a time when Finch had been the northernmost station of all TTC subway and Scarborough RT ones. For years before stations in western North York and York Region had opened, the TTC's Montreal counterpart had extended service to nearby suburbs, with the respective openings of Longueuil-Sherbrooke University and Montmorency stations in Longueuil (east) and Laval (northwest) having occurred in the 1960s and 2007.
I can remember catching a bus way out in Scarborough to Yonge and eglington to get the only subway to downtown, what the city has now is much nicer, much much nicer.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
@@Vicstarz26 True. But city council chose to build first the Scarborough extension and the Sheppard line. Projects are now more in the hands of Metrolinx, so there may be some more long term, big picture planning.
FYI - apparently they messed up the soil testing and have to re-do all the work done the past few years (I live at Yonge/7 and see the same trucks doing the same things they already did). +5 years to this project minimum - woo hoo!
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
and yet TTC can't extend the subway from Don Mills Station to Toronto Zoo along Sheppard Avenue in Scarborough as if those are not taxpayers of Toronto. TTC is prioritizing to service Richmond Hill and Vaughan.
It's wrong to call Viva Blue a Bus Rapid Transit and devalues what Rapid Transit means. Viva is rapid transit in some places, but is strictly an express bus from Richmond Hill to Finch. This is one of the big reasons this extension is so important.
In the time Singapore built 3 subway lines, India extended its subway network to 20 cities and China gave us so many transit options that in HongKong without a smartphone its tough to figure out how to go from HK to mainland, liberal leftist l00ter of Canada has managed to spend more money than some of those cities on a white elephant called eglington which is still not up and has destroyed thousands of businesses, created tonnes of pollution and wasted billions just in digging and filling up. When Indian engineers get the alignment right across Himalayan kashmir tunnels on a fraction of the budget in their first attempt, horrific socialists of Canada cannot even align a tunnel on queen street with all the maps & money at their disposal (Canada has the highest subway ticket rates in the world). We dont need more money for the l00ter. We need refuge from socialist l00ter.
Just no. Studies have show that in North American cities people would still rather drive, as opposed to be crammed on street cars. Bicycle lanes and street car right of ways just make traffic worse and make for an even more congested city. We need more subways, not surface transport.
If you look at any major city outside of North America there are a variety of well used transit options. Most people just want to get places quickly, that's easiest by car in NA, but they would switch if other modes made sense
@@transitthinker That is the point, those places are not North America and cultural attitudes are not the same. You can't just change culture becsuse you like it. We prefer cars here and that is what should be considered.
@@philbrown102have you been to the waterfront in Toronto? the dedicated bike and streetcar lanes do not impede nor interfere with traffic. It creates a better road diet and wider pedestrian space along the harbourfront and its surrounding development
@@TheRandCrews Yes they do. They absolutely do. Before they were installed (and I have lived through this so I know for a fact it is true) traffic was way more free flowing before the streetcar and bike lanes were there.
@@philbrown102I’ve also lived in the city for a while and the mixed use transit is far nicer than wasting space on low density car lanes. It makes zero sense to make room for large, single occupancy vehicles that overall carry way less people.
