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Forrest Hill

The 1km of bus lane implemented as part of RapidTO Queens Quay East has significantly decreased runtime variability and travel times and increased ridership on route 114. We must roll out RapidTO city wide, no matter the political implication.

Just took line 6 again and did the trip end to end in 33 mins. I'm actually shocked how much better the service is performing vs launch. We didn't hit a single red going EB until Jane and signs turned green for our train several times.

Double parking and illegal stopping on streetcar corridors overnight needs to be heavily enforced. Service on King and Queen at 3am becomes bunched and nearly unusable. Delays cascade into the early morning when customers need reliable service the most, such as shift workers.

The board states that it will improve transit travel times significantly, which did not happen. The rapidway more or less provides the same service speeds (sometimes even slower due to the light cycle programming) and frequency fell short.

It has but none of the selling points on the billboard ever materialised.

being a transit scheduler sometimes im like damn who tf made the schedule for this bus and then I remember it was me

They're still happening, just funding and political support for new viva has significantly slowed down

a relic from the past promising an unfulfilled future

LRVs take longer to brake and stop than buses, so the speeds are governed more strictly than buses. Buses usually don't have speed/performance governors. If FW was BRT, we wouldn't be debating the performance profile with the TTC/city for months.

This service seems similar to the Calgary LRT, with wider intersection and stop spacing. Interesting how they are able to go so fast though without protection at at-grade intersections. I do notice how LRVs slow down for intersections still.

York RapidLINK Constructors awarded $260.5 million vivaNext contract - Daily Commercial News York RapidLINK Constructors has been awarded the $260.5 million contract to design and build the York Viva Bus Rapid Transit (vivaNext) rapidways along Yonge Street in the towns of Richmond Hill and N...

$261m (2014 money, about 300-400m in 2026 money) paid for 9km of rapidway (about $29m/km). Round up for inflationary+other cost increases and we're looking at potentially $40-50m/km in 2026 money. This would've given a FW BRT a price tag of about $400-550m. Food for thought.

While the LRVs provide a smoother ride than the buses on Viva, one can't help but wonder if L6 could've offered a better service if it was built as BRT instead. A Viva-style BRT with bi-articulated vehicles+aggressive TSP could potentially operate faster than a subway, albeit at lower peak capacity.

Even if Chow manages to make the L6 TSP go maximum aggro (green wave at every intersection), the LRVs will simply be incapable of performing the same as a bus owing to their design and operation. Viva purple performs signficantly better off-peak than L6 because they are not limited by rail physics.

Smth interesting about the Line 6 RT/TSP debate is that Viva has a similar setup, with inaggressive TSP and padded schedules. Half the route is also mixed-traffic on congested Hwy 7. Viva purple does its 19km route between 35-62 mins (18-33 km/h) vs L6's 10.4 km route in 42-44 mins (14-15 km/h).

Plastic seats are actually public preference. The cloth seating wore down over time and was more difficult to clean.

words cannot describe how excited i am for the future of the port lands, especially with WELRT now funded. Bring on Ookwemin Minising!

Yea a lot of shelters here are installed with the exit facing the sidewalk so you don't get splashed by traffic in the winter so the displays are mounted facing the sidewalk too

Pretty standard here

visit our historic downtown

King + Bathurst

I agree ZEV buses are sweet. But they cost more per vehicle, require large capital investments, are less reliable, and delay important service improvements that would help communities reduce emissions quicker. A hybrid bus delivers 95% of the benefits of a ZEV with none of the above drawbacks.

These buses are not cheap, at 1.2m a pop and still require diesel fuel. But they are delivering better transit for burlington, such as more frequeny, later operating hours, and smoother rides quicker and more cost effectively than neighbouring agencies attempting to transition to ZEVs.

awesome new hybrid buses in burlington, whisper quiet and low emissions. Does 95% of what a BEB does with none of the drawbacks.

Assuming a full 50% cut to Development Charges in Toronto, that would bring DC's back in-line with 2019, just as they started to grow enormously.

Combined with last week's HST exemption this hopefully helps unstick the industry.

Reminder: if nothing's built, cities get $0 in DC's anyways

It totally breaks my Toronto brain lol, I automatically read the seattle names as Line 1 and Line 2. And then I gotta translate it back.

It's a shame the cost of this project has risen so dramatically in the last decade+ where funding and 30% design works stalled. We need to get these projects off the ground quicker to avoid cost ride.

Cost history:
520m in 2015
700m in 2019
2.6bn in 2023
2.7bn in 2024
3bn in 2026

Federal funding for WELRT!! Never thought I'd live to see the day. Thank you Carney for prioritising infrastructure.

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we are in hell