Toronto Official Thread

>>1062078
Bus what are you doing get out of that banking center you don't even bank.

>>1062083
The bus has fallen on some hard times, so it tried robbing a bank.

>>1062078
New thread i see

>>1062078
U forgot to mention go transit

>>1062078
>Official News Source:
>http://www.yourwardnews.com/
Kekd
Good OP

>>1062113
>2016+1
>alt news

Guys i need toronto friends my Toronto girlfriend dumped me

>>1062123
lets ride the streetcar together

>>1062124
Im at Bathurst and college drunk af rn
I'm down

>>1062125
Bruh you should check out wheat sheafs tomorrow after 5 for half price wings. Bathurst and king west

Anyone know when the Spadina subway extension will be opening?

If laff tie is that enough?

>>1062132
Hmu
6478953076

>>1062135
End of the year I believe

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Dude what was the point in making a thread now when the other one won't be deleted for another two weeks at least

>>1062151
>posting a phone number in a shit posting forum

>>1062273
What page is it?

>2017
>Presto card readers still not available at many subway stations

>>1062373
Aren't they at every station now?

>>1062398
No.

Some stations have only some of its exits take Presto.

You try to get in and there's a sign saying you have to cross the street to the opposite side of the intersection if you want to use Presto.

>>1062401
Just use an umbrella

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Post your presto history for the month

>>1062415
well, weekend I guess

>>1062415
I don't use Presto but if I did, it's pretty much just a series of tap-ins from the same Viva bus stop.

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Seems the DRL is going to be a fairly deep line.

>>1062720
it's going under the Don river and its' gotta be deep enough to be in the bedrock under the river. Idk if the sheppard line is under the bedrock further up but I do it it's pretty fucking deep too as per your image

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>>1062415

>>1062415
How'd that missed tap charge off get reversed?

>>1062733
>2006

>>1062720
>>1062723
Projected cost anons?

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>>1062796
The cost of the Relief Line is estimated at C$6.2 billion[4] to 8.3 billion[5] depending on alignment and phasing.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/10/18/downtown-toronto-needs-a-relief-line-to-ease-transit-traffic-study/

>>1062821
Why are subways so expensive? Where does the money go?

This was our client; we did the $21million loan for him

http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toronto/more-than-200-condo-buyers-may-lose-homes-after-development-fails-1.4056699

But he did some sketchy things so we fired him as a client

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>>1062848
200 unit condo building connected to the go station with split condo and commuter underground parking

>>1062825

It's called digging the tunnels using Tunnel Boring Machines and have to dig deep enough as to not have water leaking in, I highly doubt we can do cut and cover ever again considering the cost of real estate now

Guys, look up Boston's green line underground stations.

The Sheppard line could totally be converted

As a citizen of our glorious imperial capital I smug in the direction of you toronto plebs

now excuse me while I take out a payday loan for my bus fare

>>1063639
How is Ottawa's light rail?

>>1063719
Functioning but barely existent. We have one line going north to south that services five stops.

If you live in the southern burbs, go to Carleton or are heading to the airport from downtown it can shave off some time from your commute relative to bus lines. But bus rapid transit is still what most people have to use.

An east-west line is also being built but won't be ready until 2018 I think. Existing infrastructure could also be used to extend rail service across the river to Gatineau but that hasn't happened because the Quebec government is being autistic about it for reasons

>>1063763
Are the busways with mixed traffic? Could they conceivably be converted?

>>1063768
The main east-west busways are only for OCTranspo. I'm fairly certain converting them is the plan except for the downtown core (where they're just going to bore under the ground)

Given that three levels of government are heavily involved in planning this expansion I would absolutely not be surprised if they wind up making some ass-backwards scheme instead.

Can Toronto elect a mayor that's not retarded about transportation policy at the next election?

>>1063779
We need an unelected transporation tzar with executive authority desu

A cbc article quoted the relief line as a 6.8billion project

I'm guessing that's just the pepe to Osgood section

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>>1063812
Pepe Station

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Pointless news:

Metrolinx has a new logo.

>>1063639
Paying $1.70 for my bus ride makes me not regret moving from Canada.

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Why the fuck are we not charging these people with manslaughter?

Why the fuck are we letting people drive these murder machines through our city?

>>1064024
If it's the pedestrians fault then there was no crime

I swear if the realtors push for rent control instead of upzoning this city is going down the shitter

>>1064593
Rent control is up to the province and the liebrels will do whatever gets them votes.

Nimbys don't want multi story units in their neighbourhoods and low income people want rent control.
More votes to go with rent control

>>1062849
>>1062848
Wasn't he an outright scam artist from some turkroach-adjacent country?

>>1064796
Luis Santaguida is his name, doesn't sound Turkish

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More on the Dundas BRT/Dundas Connects in Mississauga.

Layout:
>West of Winston Churchill Boulevard: Curbside bus lanes with a multiuse trail.
>Winston Churchill Boulevard to Mississauga Road: Curbside bus lanes with cycle tracks.
>Mississauga Road to The Credit Woodlands: A single reversible median lane with cycle tracks. Eastbound buses will use it in the AM, westbound buses in the PM.
>East of The Credit Woodlands: Median bus lanes with cycle tracks.

New stops (from existing the 101/101A bus) are planned at: The Credit Woodlands, Clayhill Road, Camilla Road/Kirwin Avenue, and Cliff Road/Grenville Drive. The Woodchester Drive stop is moved to Glen Erin Drive. It seems like (BRT/express) buses will no longer go to South Common and will instead terminate at UTM.

Densification will occur throughout most of the corridor, but notably in Cooksville and by Dixie Road.

More information:
http://www.dundasconnects.ca/
https://s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/ehq-production-canada/documents/attachments/fe41c326d70c5190f5b8c5e2ce464a20ff74335a/000/006/192/original/Dundas_Connects_P3_Panels.pdf?1492098079

>>1065164
Will this connect Oakville to the busway?

>>1065168
Could you rephrase your question? Which busway?

>>1065164
I'm glad Dundas will get a facelift. It'll look less depressing.

>>1065170
Nvm

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>>1065177

Anyone else live in Toronto but hate it? I shit on this dumb city all the time. It's a pathetic PLACE

>>1065260
Kys

>>1065260
Have you lived anywhere else? Could you move? Nothing's stopping you my dude, this isn't Pyongyang

>>1065349
I'm leaving soon and moving to Montréal.

>>1065423
This is shit as well

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http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/metrolinx-bombardier-light-rail-1.4075589

[REEEE INTENSIFIES]

>>1062078
amerifat here, will be traveling to the gta in may and will be staying by friends in thornhill

how are the non-ttc networks (go, yrt, drt, brampton, etc)

>>1065615
Go is the best system of them all in terms of distance for value. York regional transit is pretty reasonable for a suburb, idk about Durham tho

>>1065615
Where are u from?

>>1065650
He's from the US.

>>1065349
I can't leave because I have to live at home with my parents due to my disability.

>>1065658
What disability

>>1065659
Autism/Anxiety limiting my ability to work and function in the real world.

I got rejected from Western law :(

>>1065672
LSAT score?

http://www.lfpress.com/2017/04/19/deb-matthews-says-liberals-will-study-not-build-high-speed-rail-link-between-toronto-and-london

The lying liberals are scrapping the high speed rail line.

>>1065678

Was there ever an actual promise to build a HSR line? Besides

>Canada
>Profitable HSR

Pick one

>>1065679
I want to be able to go from London to Toronto in 30 minutes. This isn't an unreasonable request.

>>1065636
go transit seems to have a shit fare structure though

i can't seem to figure out how i can get a day pass that covers the entire network, rather than travel between "zones"

>>1065677
156
But I applied in the access category and had good grades

>>1065681
Yeah I guess this is true, that's where price burns you

>>1065661
then stop complaining you asshat

if you cant interact with the city why should we believe anything you say about it?

>>1065702
Just because I have autism doesn't mean I don't offer a legitimate point of view

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>>1065710

How much faster is your bike commute than one using the TTC? From Lansdowne and college, can get to younge and Dundas in 15-17 min by bike. Takes 22-25 by taking the Dundas Street car

>>1065805
Would you bike that in the rain? Or subzero temp?

Province revamping rent control, implementing foreign buyers tax, and banning pre construction flipping of condos

>>1063779
soknacki

>>1065809
Are there any convincing arguments that housing prices aren't caused by limiting supply and density?

>>1065824
The condo flipping is a good one. I work at a real estate law firm and every condo development deal we do the builder will sell units to a family member or friend who never closes on the unit; they basically sell title without ever having occupancy. It's literally like scalping condos. Developers need to have a certain % of sales before the banks will give them financing to build so these family/friend sales are just to add numbers and creates artificial demand which justifies the price. Banning transfer of assignment before taking title to the property removes that demand and subsequent profit from selling the title.

So if builders want to sell their units faster to get financing and start building they'll have to be at actual market price and no risk of resales before closing

Does anybody even use the st clair line?

https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/19/st-clair-next-in-line-for-new-ttc-streetcars.html

Put them on King ffs

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just fuck my life up senpai

http://www.thespec.com/opinion-story/7251859-dreschel-delay-means-lrt-is-going-off-the-rails/

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The rain feels great today guys! I'm loving it.

>>1065828
why is this a problem though? The condos are put on market and paid a market price, even if they're flipped. So what if some of the profits accrue to the family or friends instead of the developer? The end purchaser would still end up paying the same price

>>1065835
Literally why would a city reject province funded infrastructure?

>>1065837
>The condos are put on market and paid a market price, even if they're flipped.
That's not a real market price for purchasers with the intent on living there. It's a fake market price, it's like scalpers who buy all the concert tickets driving up the demand of the tickets, then turning around and selling them higher for the artificial market price they caused by taking up all the supply. Get it?

>>1065613
>Bombardier is a leech who has paid off everyone from politicians to judges

What is new?

>>1065678
I remember Ontario Liberals suddenly talking about Windsor-London-Kitchener-Toronto HSR in the final days of the last provincial election.

>>1065679
The Liberal government had commissioned a rudimentary feasibility study from a British firm that did feasibility analysis on High Speed 2, and the report said that Windsor-Toronto HSR is profitable because most of the existing tracks can be reused for 250km/h-tier HSR, province already owns land in most areas where new track would need to be built, and the area is rather flat, reducing needs for heavy grading, viaducts, or tunnels.

>>1065885
>believing what the Liebrals say during an election year

Just like they Skydome, it'll always be Downsview to me
https://ttc.ca/News/2017/April/20_04_17NR_Downsview_Sheppard.jsp

>>1065923
$800k

>>1065846
brampton did this too lol

is there anywhere I could move to where people follow rational transportation and land planning?

>>1065848
>get it

not really lol

So how do consumers actually end up paying more? If anything this preselling/flipping ensures that developers are more likely to get financing for their projects.

Also on the tickets analogy, scalping is just a way of creating a market for tickets when the price is driven down artificially by the primary seller. If I understand correctly, are you saying that developers should be charging a higher price initially so that a secondary flipping market wouldnt even happen?

>>1065957
>So how do consumers actually end up paying more? If anything this preselling/flipping ensures that developers are more likely to get financing for their projects.
Are you actually stupid? How do you not understand how this inflates the price? The developer is immediately cutting the supply down only to sell it later; making an artificial demand chain.

>>1065957
>are you saying that developers should be charging a higher price initially so that a secondary flipping market wouldnt even happen?
I am saying that the province eliminating flippers gets rid of a whole class of purchasers of new builds thus cooling the market.

>>1065968
>Are you actually stupid? How do you not understand how this inflates the price?

I honestly have a pretty good grasp of markets and economics from school, but let me try to understand how this works, because I genuinely might not be getting this. I might just be talking to someone that's economically illiterate though so this could be pointless.

like if you have a lemonade stand, and you sell all your lemonade to your friends, and then your friends resell your lemonade to customers, are you implying that customers would be willing to pay more because the lemonade is part of an "artificial demand chain"? (I'm putting that phrase in quotes because I've never heard it before and I doubt its a real concept)

>>1065975
Vandyk builds a 200 unit condominium tower in a highly coveted area. Units are between 300k and 500k.

Vandyk needs to sell 60% of his units before he can get financing to begin construction.

To do this faster Vandyk sells 20 units to friends and family members who have no intention on moving into the unit. Vandyk sells another 100 units and gets financing for construction.
After another year vandyk sells the next 100 units and he has a sold out condominium tower.

Tenants get occupancy 3months or so before closing, suddenly 20 units with occupancy come on the market; the people sell those unis for usually 15-20% more than the pre construction price.
All they do is assign title to the new purchaser, avoid capital gains tax and land transfer tax because the vendor's name was never on title.

Those 20 units initialy sold artificially bumped up demand for housing units because they had no intention on living there in the first place.

This legislation puts an end to that; so if a builder wants to sell his units faster to get financing faster prices would need to be lower.

>>1065975
>like if you have a lemonade stand, and you sell all your lemonade to your friends, and then your friends resell your lemonade to customers, are you implying that customers would be willing to pay more because the lemonade
This disregards the fact that there is not a limited amount of lemonade or a time period one must wait between buying the lemon-aid and fucking moving into it

>>1065979
> if a builder wants to sell his units faster to get financing faster prices would need to be lower.

so their friends and families are overpaying for the same units that tenants are also able to buy? It sounds like they developer is just scamming their friends and families

>>1065992
>so their friends and families are overpaying for the same units that tenants are also able to buy?
Stay in your econ class kiddo, this is the real world. On average 10% of condo units never make it on the open market pre construction because they're sold privately by the developer to boost sales. Then once the building is sold out, the units come back on the market as re-sales pre-closing and are sold for a profit.

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>>1065980
>lemonade goes on sale to both flippers and people looking for lemonade to drink
>drinkers: "hmmm this lemonade sure is cheap but I can't drink it now, so I'm not going to buy it, even though I can rent lemonade somewhere else for a year"
>flipper: "i'm not really thirsty, but I bet a year from now someone wants some lemonade, and I'm willing to take a risk that lemonade prices go up and this lemonade actually gets made"

>>1065998
so why do developers have to sell privately in the first place if condos are in such hot demand?

>>1065998
>>1066000
I know 4chan is a shit place to learn anything, but I'm not trying to troll you, I'm just trying to understand through what mechanism this is supposed to help. If you have any reports or articles about what impact this would have, or evidence from other cities where this has been successful, please post them.

>>1066000
>so why do developers have to sell privately in the first place if condos are in such hot demand?
because the time it takes to build. A lot of people prefer to buy a unit when they can move directly into it, not wait 3 years for construction.

So what happens is 10% of those units are "purchased" just so the building can be constructed with financing.

>>1066005
ok so as I understand it

>find condo presale that will be finished in 3 years
>costs $324,000 now
>I can either
>a) buy it now, then pay $12,000 in yearly rent for 3 years then move in, spending total $360,000
>b) buy an equivalent completed condo from a flipper now, paying $360,000 so he makes a profit off of his $324,000

if your paying the same either way, doesn't it not matter which one you do? If one is more expensive than the other, wouldn't people just choose to do the other one? At what point is the end consumer losing money?

FRIENDLY REMINDER TO /n/

THE DVP WILL BE CLOSED UNTIL THE 24th FOR REPAIRS

I'm expected to fly to Toronto and go to some place called Lake Muskowa, near Rosseau. I assume there's no viable mass transit there, and should rent a car from the airport. Any general advice on travel or the area?

>>1066009
The point is the flippers drive that price up without the intent to take occupancy, that's why the gubment is putting an end to it.
If you had to take occupancy and title before you could flip the condo then the builder would need to replace those 10% sales with actual home owners which could lead to lower pre construction prices

>>1066030
Lake Muskoka, lake Joseph and lake Rousseau are the 3 "muskoka lakes"

Yeah you're in cottage country there, like maybe you could get a coach bus from Toronto or something but you're pretty much out in the boonies. You'll definitely need to rent a car and probably want a gps

>>1066030
Where are you from?

>>1066009
Here's an article on pre construction flipping

https://mysquareonecondo.ca/an-investors-guide-to-flipping-a-condo-in-mississauga/

>>1066062
>>1066066
>>1066067
Take the Northlander up there

>>1066075
He's coming from the airport, the. Northlander leaves from Bay and Dundas

>>1066078
Take the tunnel across from the airport. You're pretty much right there.

>>1066110
>Take the tunnel across from the airport. You're pretty much right there
I think he's coming from Pearson? Well he didn't specify

>>1066119
Just take the pearson express train then

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>>1062415

>>1066211
I'm sure you;re looking forward to the LRT

>>1066692
Are they building a Mississauga to Toronto LRT? I'd love it if they had a system like Gautrain from Hamilton to Toronto

>>1066715
no it's on hurontario

>>1066715
The Eglinton Crosstown is planned to go to Pearson Airport (located in the eastern edge of Mississauga).

>>1066718
>>1066719
Why are they building so many LRT's? Can't even get over 250 kb/s internet at my place

>>1066725
LRT attract a higher class of transit riders than buses; they run on electricity which is mostly carbon emissions free in Ontario, they move more people and are more pedestrian friendly than buses, and light rail vehicles are sleek as fuck

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Some Mississauga news.

Two more Transitway stations open on May 1st; Spectrum and Orbitor. The last station, Renforth Gateway is expected to open in fall 2017.

May 1st also brings good service changes:

New Sunday service (starting May 7th):
>35 Eglinton: 45mins all day.
>103 Hurontario Express: 21mins morning, ~25mins midday and evening.

More frequent service:
>11(A) Westwood: Saturday, ~23mins all day; Sunday, ~21mins all day.
>42 Derry: evening, 27mins; Saturday, 27mins all day; Sunday, 35 mins all day.
>61 Mavis: Saturday, ~20mins all day; Sunday, 25mins all day.
>103 Hurontario Express: Saturday, 20mins all day.

Rearranged bus stop locations at Terminals:
>City Centre: moving 10 into the transit terminal from the 109 northbound platform.
>Erin Mills Station: 46, 48 southbound and 109 southbound moved to the east side of the south platform.
>Winston Churchill Station: 45(A) southbound and 109 southbound to the east side of the south platform.

More information under the Service Changes tab:
http://www.mississauga.ca/portal/miway/miwayfive

>>1067031

>not a single HSR

>>1067036
>HSR
considering budget airlines are opening up in ontario this is not a possibilty

What in the fuck is going on on Wellington? It looks like they got rid of the wye onto York?
Is the 503 streetcar route to be killed?

>>1067077
Waterloo - Guelph -
Pearson rapid rail line is the logical next step

>>1067135
The only rapid rail line that makes sense is Toronto Ottawa Montreal

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>>1067146
Vancouver - Portland makes just as much sense, as does CalGARY to Edmonton

>>1067031
>~25 mins
>frequent
This is why suburbs will always be shit

>>1067149
>Vancouver - Portland makes just as much sense, as does CalGARY to Edmonton
No they really don't. Look at the population of Montreal and Toronto compared to those shitholes

Sad this was even necessary

tunnel.html

>>1067197
Oops
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/04/24/ttc-makes-it-harder-for-drivers-to-enter-the-queens-quay-streetcar-tunnel.html

>>1067270
Confirmed I'm moving to Thunder Bay

>>1067151
Assuming that you're just talking about 103; its better than having no service on Sundays. MiWay intended to implement Sunday service on 103 in 2020, so it's nice that they fast tracked it.

103 gives an additional and fast option to a corridor that is fairly frequent on Sundays (19 Hurontario: ~20mins morning, ~15mins midday, ~25mins evening. 502 Züm Main: ~20mins morning, ~15minutes midday, ~20mins evening.)

As for the other routes, weekend service is obviously weaker because there are less commuters and students. During the weekdays, all the routes listed in the previous post have decent frequency (20-25mins during midday, 103 is 10mins during midday).

Bus service in Mississauga may not ideal, but its good for a suburb and its improving every year.

>>1067330
>Bus service in Mississauga may not ideal, but its good for a suburb

This, I live in Oakville and can't stand Mississauga people who don't realize how good they have it. 30mins is the best frequency on all routes here on off-peak hours

>>1067494
IRHS 2009

>>1067330
>>1067494
>no 10 minute network
>no streetcar or subway service
>busses are justilkruns between malls and GO stations

>>1067565
>busses are justilkruns between malls and GO stations
Pretty much

Wew the Kitchener train is ethnic as fuck

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>>1067654
Whites are richer usually so they drive cars.

>>1067709
Nobody wants to drive the QEW into Toronto during commuter traffic m8

>>1067710
Clearly a lot of people do since there's a lot of traffic.

>>1067711
Wants

>>1067712
They can take the train. It's not our fault we're part of the public tra/n/sit master race. Rural and suburban retards don't know how to live.

>>1067710
The Kitchener line doesn't go along the QEW retard

Looks like Hamilton city council finally pulled through and have approved the LRT

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/lrt-environmental-assessment-1.4087610

>>1067748
I don't think white people live in Brampton either

>>1067749
"It was an emotional meeting with tears and, in some cases, giddiness."

Why are Hamiltonians such fags?

>>1067806
It seems more like a Canadian thing in general to me

>>1067806
I live in Hamilton and want to shoot myself. I'm moving out of the city today and will not be back.

>>1067860
Why? You're getting an lrt now

>>1065444
montreal is way better for young people and families

its shit for yuppies that want to make a lot of money

>>1067874
And anglophones

>>1067862
I'm moving to Waterloo which already has one. It is like stepping into the future.

>>1067151
How do they even come up with those frequencies, or even worse 21 or 27 minutes?
Why not 30 which can be easily remembered, as it repeats every hour?

>>1067885
It doesn't open until 2019 i thought

>>1067889
early 2018 is what they're saying

shouldn't be delayed anymore now that construction is nearly done and bombardier moved lrt construction to a new plant

>>1067928
I'll be riding it long before that, I got a job with ion.

>>1068063
nice job

>>1067874
Then don't be such a hedonist you fag

>>1062078
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG3y4dyBqTs

>>1068408
Not relevant. Reported.

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New buses are starting to arrive; Nova Bus LFS.

>>1069062
>tfw normies won't even notice that it's new

>>1065835
Thank fuck, the last thing the HSR needs is a fucking LRT.

>hey lets build an LRT
>and put 2-way rail-lines on major streets that are one-way

Fucking brilliant street planning we have.

>>1069062
HSR just got a batch of those, they're roomier but every seat in the main area folds up. Which all the single moms with 3 kids and senile fucks with walkers promptly fill up in the first 3 stops.

>>1069062
Is it just me or do these have a lower capacity than the Orion buses? I also don't like how you have to sit facing someone in the back seats

So I've been admitted to Ottawa Law and Lakehead law

Is the decision obvious?

>>1069202
CPTDB states that the rear seats are rearranged to face the aisle.

>>1069276
Why bother considering lakehead?

>>1069410
I'm from northern Ontario but come to toronto a lot

>>1069276
Ottawa is expanding light rail
Go there

>>1069412
You do realize that Ottawa is not in toronto right?

>>1069417
yeah but that's why I check out this thread, because I come to Toronto a lot. I didnt get accepted to U of T

>>1069421
Go to Ottawa, a lot more law firms in the area.

Guys May 18 is the next meeting for King Street pilot. They're holding it at the intercontinental hotel because the last meeting had tons of people

Wew going to Ottawa U

Is the O train in ottawa a computer service or rapid transit?

>>1070351
It's either depending on the time of day.

>>1070858
Oh

>>1070858
U from Ottawa?

>>1070922
No, I'm from Nelspruit

>>1066692
Sorry for the late reply but I'm not. Though I love more public transit I'll be finished my school in just a few weeks so I won't be able to enjoy it.

>>1071037
UTM?

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>>1069062
>framed window
>black plastic underbites

Why can't we ever have nice things?

The LFS can actually look decent if spec'd properly. It's the only current North American transit bus that has any aesthetic potential whatsoever.

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>>1071190
>It's the only current North American transit bus that has any aesthetic potential whatsoever

I think New Flyer XD40/60 has the best aesthetic

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>>1071211
To each their own but I can't stand New Flyers. Ugly proportions (stubby front end, awkward and narrow front door), framed windows, burger spec bumpers, etc. It's like they've been polishing the same turd for 30 years. To be fair, it's not impossible for them to look passable with the right specs and a good livery. The Züm Xcelsiors are a good example.

The D60LFR artics here in Ottawa, on the other hand, are so ugly I'm embarrassed to even be seen on one.

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>>1071232
>D60LFR
They look decent if they have a clean livery and are spec'd out. Though the roofline is a bit too much for me.

>>1071274
I like the roofline, it makes it look sleek and also hides the AC unlike in this example >>1071232

>>1071274
Still not a fan but it looks a million times better than ours.

VIVA cheated with their livery to make the windows appear taller (see >>1071190) and I can see the same technique helping to minimize the bulkiness of the roofline. Looks like the same concept was applied around the windshield in your example and it makes it look way sleeker. Also, Ottawa opted for a different headlight cluster instead of the standard array design and it looks like fucking balls.

For me it's streetcars

>>1069062

These feel kind of cheap compared to Orion and the internal space seems less efficiently arranged.

is there some other city I can move to that doesn't have retards on council?
https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/05/10/scarborough-residents-question-why-subway-plan-gives-them-just-one-new-stop.html

>>1071834
Scarborough is such a shithole
"“The stations are so far apart in Scarborough,” another resident shouted from the back. “All the rest of the city gets them close together . . . Do we not count like the rest of the city?”"

Wahhh we don't have the density of downtown or bloor street!

Toronto needs a transit tzar

>>1071834
>>1071836

This is actually true though. If you were replacing the LRT with the subway quickly, cheaply, and efficiently, then yeah they're right but if you're spending billions and a decade it's absurd to have one station. Also it is a comparatively very large distance when compared to other suburban parts of Toronto. Not that I'm even defending the Scarborough Subway, but if you're going to do it, do it right.

>>1071840
Blow the subway up and just buy new vehicles and fix some track on the SRT

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>>1071834
Switzerland.

So are we actually going to get 6000 weekly train trips by 2024 or is that just a meme?

I want a bunch of FLIRT's zooming around so I can make it from Hamilton to Union in 40 minutes.

Metrolinx incs lrv deal with Alstrom

>>1073133
Old news

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>>1073146
if it was old it would be NEWs

Is there any way to travel between Guelph and Toronto without having to package my bike in a box? As far as I can tell, Via, Go, and Greyhound don't let you carry on a bike as is.

>>1073325
Ride it

>>1073325
Go train does in certain cars

The platform in Oakville marks where the bike cars are and on the outside of those cars there's a picture of a bike

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heeeeeeeeeere we goooo
Wish I could go to the consultation & meet up with some of y'all

>>1062078
burgerfag from a few weeks ago back in the thread
and i had to delay my trip to toronto until early june

i'll be staying by steeles (have relatives in that area), and i wonder if i can board a yrt bus southbound on steeles

>>1073743
Steeles is a long road.

>>1073396
Man stfu about Oakville, you faggots are the worst

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Recommended routing for routes 32A Eglinton West and 112B/C West Mall at Renforth Gateway on the Mississauga Transitway.

>32A and 112B terminates at Renforth Gateway instead of Skymark Avenue.
>112C will now be routed through Renforth Gateway.

http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Commission_reports_and_information/Commission_meetings/2017/May_18/Reports/14_Changes_to_Bus_Routes_for_Renforth_Gateway.pdf

>>1073789
i'm talking on the section between bathurst and yonge, where the 88 runs along steeles

since steeles is the city line, i'm not certain if i can board the bus if the stop is actually on steeles

>>1073895
You can board the bus.

>>1073869
at least we're white

>>1073733
I forgot it as today otherwise I'd be there

>>1073987
>muh race

>>1073979
thanks

BIG HIGH SPEED RAIL ANNOUNCEMENT COMING TOMORROW

>tfw it'll get scrapped by the next premier anyway

>>1074019

>Implying it wouldn't be yet another HSR study

*Insert obligatory Rick Mercer HSR Study video here*

Snark aside would a HSR be able to actually break even (or at least have minimal loss) in Southern Ontario?

>>1074021
In southern Ontario alone? probably not. However iirc back when VIA was studying HSR they found that converting the Windsor-Montreal corridor in its entirety would do well financially and would be a boon for the economy in the area. Obvious issue was the incredibly high price. The HSR in southern Ontario may not be a financial success but it should be the first step in converting the corridor over to HSR. This would obviously require long term planning and accepting the high upfront costs would lead to long term gains; 2 virtues you won't find in North American politics, especially Canadian politics.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/high-speed-rail-train-toronto-windsor-kitchener-london-1.4121663

Economic feasibility study done.

250km/h link from Windsor to Toronto will cost $19B.

Proceeding to environmental assessment along the proposed route and detailed planning.

>>1074021
nah, Wynne herself is announcing it which means that it is a big project. If it was just another study she wouldn't bother with it.

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Iron Kat has spoken.

Phase 1 is Toronto-Pearson Airport-Guelph-Kitchener-London and the target opening date is 2025 at cost of $12B.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/wynne-ontario-high-speed-rail-report-1.4123183

London-Windsor will come later in Phase 2.

>>1074134
>High-speed rail between Toronto and London by 2025

That'll be one hell of a tunnel.

>>1074141
What tunnel...? It's just going to use the existing rail infrastructure which is what makes this whole project retarded. It's not grade separated and it's going to use the same tracks as the GO Train and UP Express, not to mention cargo

>>1074030
Wynne has an abysmally low approval rating, she's doing everything she can now to make herself look useful and bring media attention to, you read that right, a fucking EA

>>1074488
I think he was jokingly referring to London, England.

>>1062135
>>1062162
december

>>1074134
It will never happen

>>1074030
She wants to get reelected next year
It's just more pork barrel politics.

The only highspeed rail that should be built is between Toronto and Montreal

>>1074917
I don't mind connecting Guelph, KW, and Hamilton to Toronto via Pearson(then on to union) via high speed rail since it would connect the region quite well but going all the way down to Windsor is insane.

>>1074947
Why doesn't GO just get faster locomotives?

>>1074950
They throw in too many stations for it to work out

What is the most aesthetic TTC station and why is it Old Mill?

>>1074997
Union Station

>>1074997
yorkdale
for its tacky 1980s future vibe

If I'm travelling to the jail in milton from downtown & need to transfer onto the different buses, do I gotta do something to my presto card? or are the fares done automatically?

>>1075117
Is your presto card preset to 'tap off' or do you do it manually?

>>1074950
electrification is going to make the trip marginally faster

Anyone wanna get drunk and ride streetcars on Friday?

>>1075459
what time

>>1075489
After 4

Friday meetup add me on kik
Kmcray

>>1075513
Dude why not have one on Saturday at the York University subway station, it's going to have an open house

https://www.ttc.ca/Spadina/Project_News/News_Events/News_by_Date/2017/April/Doors_Open.jsp

>>1075566
Shitty plans Saturday but i might bail
That's a good idea actually

>>1075272
uhh I've only used it on the ttc

So when is GO Transit electrifying their commuter rail lines?

Caltrain just got the go ahead to electrify their line after a 2-3 month deferment.

>>1075663
So you're fine then

Just remember to tap on at Union station and tap off when you get off in Milton

You can use buses from like 15 different municipalities with presto with no issue

>>1075670
It's a 9 year project

Ttc monthly pass now available on presto

signing up for inclass driving school was a mistake

>>1075795
you get a break on insurance tho

anyone wanna go for a beer tonight?

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York University Station, yesterday during Doors Open.

>driver makes shit turn
>dodge getting hit but eat pavement anyway
>passenger & I screaming at each other
>passerbys call the cops
>driver, driver's passenger, paramedic, police all lecture me about wearing a helmet

>>1076453
dang I could have gone to that too
is it nice? When it it slated to be open?

>>1076623
Downsview Park was opened yesterday as well. You exited through an emergency exit and had a chance to see the compressor room.

>is it nice?
It was a cool experience.

Both stations are massive and deep. Out of both stations, York University was more interesting architecture-wise. Downsview Park reminds me of a Line 2 station, but the artwork in the station was cool.

>When it it slated to be open?
End of 2017.

The shuttle bus also passed by Finch West, but it looks really behind schedule.

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>>1076632

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Man what's up with these fucking street names? Can someone please nuke this country

>>1077146
The Ahmadiyya literally fucking developed that are you mong

>>1077146
That's a Muslim-No-Go-Zone in Toronto. The community practices sharia law instead of English law.

>>1077146
>>1077251
Ramadan Mubarak to you
All I see is a neighborhood that probably has good food
I'm an agnostic atheist ex-Catholic, but I for one welcome more Muslims in my country
If you don't like diversity, I invite you to emigrate to Japan

>>1077254
>I'm an agnostic atheist ex-Catholic, but I for one welcome more Muslims in my country

Just wait till ISIS members start committing terrorist attacks on innocent Canadians. Enjoy your cultural enrichment of the Trudeau Government. I might be emigrating to America soon.

>>1077261
>falling for the ISIS meme
You're about 20,000x more likely to get killed by a cager trying to check facebook, but sure, cower in fear of the ISIS boogyman

Am I the only one that thinks that the relief line should go down Front St instead so that we don't have to scrap the Queen Streetcar?

>>1077146
it's just like how there's a huge area called thornhill which is filled with another ethnic group

and they have some "native" street names

>>1077310
No one said the 501 was going away

>>1077251
that's in Vaughan

>>1077310
we wont scrap the Queen car unless the Western leg of it gets converted into the waterfront LRT alomg with the 511 Queen's Quay

>subway in a freeway median

this is my first time ever going on /n/ and you guys have toronto threads?

thats something i never imagined and i live over on bathurst.

What in Davy Jones’ locker did ye just bark at me, ye scurvy bilgerat? I’ll have ye know I be the meanest cutthroat on the seven seas, and I’ve led numerous raids on fishing villages, and raped over 300 wenches. I be trained in hit-and-run pillaging and be the deadliest with a pistol of all the captains on the high seas. Ye be nothing to me but another source o’ swag. I’ll have yer guts for garters and keel haul ye like never been done before, hear me true. You think ye can hide behind your newfangled computing device? Think twice on that, scallywag. As we parley I be contacting my secret network o’ pirates across the sea and yer port is being tracked right now so ye better prepare for the typhoon, weevil. The kind o’ monsoon that’ll wipe ye off the map. You’re sharkbait, fool. I can sail anywhere, in any waters, and can kill ye in o’er seven hundred ways, and that be just with me hook and fist. Not only do I be top o’ the line with a cutlass, but I have an entire pirate fleet at my beck and call and I’ll damned sure use it all to wipe yer arse off o’ the world, ye dog. If only ye had had the foresight to know what devilish wrath your jibe was about to incur, ye might have belayed the comment. But ye couldn’t, ye didn’t, and now ye’ll pay the ultimate toll, you buffoon. I’ll shit fury all over ye and ye’ll drown in the depths o’ it. You’re fish food now, lad.
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>>1078051
/n/ is a slow and comfy board
Welcome

>>1078051
>>1078099

>tfw we're the most active city general

based

Why are there so many Torontonians on /n/?

>>1078113
Too frustrated to use the ttc so we post about it?

>>1078119
fair enough. I don't even bike or use public transit. I live two blocks from my work and drive in every day.

>>1078450
I drive to the go station even though I could take a bus

Will highway 11 ever get designated as a 400 series highway?

>>1078450
Why not just walk?

>>1078835
country blocks, it is about 2-3 kilometres.

>>1079141
you wont walk 20-30 minutes?

What do we think about this?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-street-without-streetcars-the-city-might-give-it-a-look-1.4152158

>>1080005
>fords are idiots
news at noon

>>1080005
This misses a huge point, especially with the new street cars coming online.
Iight rail attracts a broader rider base than buses. The new street cars could see people leaving their cars at home

>>1080005
Mikey Fuckin Ford has never travelled anywhere by TTC and never will. That fucker is a piece of shit just like the rest of his family. Tell you what Mikey, ride the 501 bus for a month then ride the smooth, quiet streetcar then tell me as a *passenger* which one would you prefer.

>>1080118
Esp once the flexity cars are on queen it will be p smooth compared to buses

>>1079931
nah, I work 10-12 hour days on my feet all day.

It takes 40 minutes to walk it though, I've done it before.

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>>1077254
>>1077262
I wonder who could've posted this.

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>tfw getting a 7.5% pay raise because libcucks are desperate to hold power

based.

>>1081262
tfw get paid $16 an hour and it probably won't go up

Burgeranon here, just got back from Toronto yesterday. GO Transit rocks, the TTC subway is pretty good, and it took me 100 minutes to take the Bathurst bus from end to end.

>>1082111
>it took me 100 minutes to take the Bathurst bus from end to end.
for what purpose
nice digits

In York Region news, Viva's eastern terminal in Markham, announced in 2008, is scheduled to open at the end of the year.

Took them long enough.

>>1082407
because i needed to get up north to steeles
and i didnt want to take a boring subway ride

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The first tower of the CIBC Square (formerly Bay Park Centre) broke ground today.

The first phase of the complex will be the new home of the Union Station Bus Terminal and possibly the Toronto Coach Terminal. It is expected to be completed in 2020.

The construction of the second tower will start at a later date, it will be built on the site of the existing bus terminal. It is expected to be completed in 2023.

In addition, both towers will be joined by a park on top of the tracks.

http://www.bayparkcentre.com/
http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/improve/projects/unionbus/

http://urbantoronto.ca/news/2017/06/bay-park-centre-unveiled-cibc-square-ground-breaking

>>1083872
Thank fuck for private public partnership

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I blew a load on the CEO of bombardier

>>1084352
and people on this website pride themselves in being superior to redditors

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WE DID IT!
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/programs/metromorning/ttc-named-best-transit-system-north-america-1.4178574

>>1085459
Lmfao by what standards?

>>1084712
At least he remains anonymous

>>1084352
shut up Kevin

>>1085466
APTA if you read the article

>>1085459
well, it isn't like the competition is fierce in north america.

>>1085546
New York and Boston

>>1085727
ah yes, New "derailment every other week" York

>>1086251
at least you can get everywhere in the city without relying on shitty buses

how will tory fuck up the new federal transit funding? place your bets here

>>1088257
Electrifying GO