When the Spadina streetcar is one of your major transit options I don't know if I blame them

That being said being from BC where post secondary enrollment includes a transit pass in the fees this situation already seems unnecessary

Fair enough. The TTC did have to basically be dragged into using Presto by the province. It doesn't surprise me they still insist on separate requirements for stuff like post secondary passes even though GO has a perfectly reasonable solution me

In practice the province via Metrolinx will be the only one building Subways, do they even need to follow this if it did pass. At the very least the province could just exempt it via legislation. Is this just a performative motion?

This isn't going to be a popular take in Toronto but you're right. At the very least there needs to be some sort of coordinated fare regimen, OneFare temporarily papers over the issue with provinces funds.

The TTC's insular mindset sets back fare and transit integration and rapid transit planning

Seems so unnecessarily complicated, at the very least I feel that OneFare should require the TTC to honour the same id requirements for post-secondry students as the rest of the agencies.

It's not even like a cool single giant block of ice or anything just a poorly stacked small blocks in the vague shape of a cube.

The entire UK political situation is a disaster on every point of the spectrum. I just want Reform to fall a little in the polling and the LibDems to rise a bit so that it's maximum chaos with all 5 main parties at 20% vote share.

Guys literally only want one thing and it's fucking disgusting

Guys - a singular parking app

You would have to build a new RoW though the valley as the current one is extremely windy west of Abbotsford and has a huge detour east of Abbotsford to avoid a lake that doesn't exist anymore. The interurban RoW was not fit for purpose.

But also because it is easy engineering wise and fiscally

I have no issue with a heritage railway revival but the RoW that is left isn't useful for transit service

The latest highway improvements are HoV lanes which will improve the speed and reliability of the 66x. The old BCER RoW even with modern trains and track is out of the way and meandering to be competitive speed wise .

The entire Metro Vancouver is better off, the BCER RoW in the valley is horrendous. The Langley SkyTrain extension will provide better service within Metro Vancouver than the BCER ever would and the 66x provides more frequent and faster connections than in the Fraser Valley

And yet every NA legacy LRT system is still hampered by large unimproved potions of their networks. If Vancouver had kept the interurban we would have had a meandering slow grade section through downtown instead of a direct grade separated metro. The shutting of the interurban was good for Vancouver

My comments were about legacy atreetcar/interurban systems that all have compromises to compared to what a new build LRT would look like.

Hilarious reasoning now, being able to look back on it 60 years later

Romantically reminiscing about slow and infrequent interurban services that wouldn't even serve the two main universities isn't a solution. NA cities that has kept their streetcars/interurbans have made compromises doing so and we are probably better off with the SkyTrain reusing the useful sections

Romantically reminiscing about slow and infrequent interurban services that wouldn't even serve the two main universities isn't a solution. NA cities that has kept their streetcars/interurbans have made compromises doing so and we are probably better off with the SkyTrain reusing the useful sections

If anything the UK "countries" administratively are less independent than Canadian provinces or US states and exist at the will of Westminster. While they have well established national identities that doesn't make them countries in the formal sense, ask any Quebec/Catalonia separatist

Thank you, I was having this horrific image in my mind of you cooking a nice pasta and drizzling cod liver oil on top like it was olive oil.

I don't even have an issue with the UK using country idiosyncratically for specific administrative divisions, just don't pretend they are proper countries when people are talking about proper countries

Unfortunately there is a loss in distinction between "nation" and "country" in colloquial English where they are treated as synonyms. I have no issues with calling Scotland and Wales nations in the strict meaning of the word.

If anything the Barnet formula and the fact that the vast majority of the devolved budget of Scotland, Wales and Ireland come directly from and at the will of Westminster is a point for the UK use of 'countries' being just ceremonial.

You get the opposite thing happening when anglos get upset when calling Quebec a nation because they don't know the more academic and mainstream French meaning of nation.

I’m not convinced about the Eglinton East/Scarborough East Rapid Transit/LRT. I honestly think a larger network of curb and median BRT on Eglinton Esst, Ellesmere, Morningside, Sheppard East, and Markham would do more and am not convinced LRT will offer a meaningful improvement over buses in TO.

I don't get the urgency that is getting put on this. The line 4 extension plans aren't even done yet, and staff haven't come back with grade separation options. So far what has been proposed has all the flaws as Finch.

Yeah they were already starting to fail before the great depression and received virtually no maintenance during the depression/WW2. At their best they were a tough sell vs a car in a post WW2 American economy, with decades of deferred maintenance people were better off with buses.

I feel like a really low effort thing that the province or municipalities could do is set up Intercity bus stations in strategic high traffic/transfer cities, Hope Kamloops, Kewlona, and PG to help private coach competition.

London gives the UK a much better reputation on public transit than it really deserves.