Pearson was designed and built before most of those residents of Malton and Rexdale moved anywhere near the airport, which is literally surrounded by highways. Pearson was not contiguous to residential areas. Billy Bishop was, and in fact, many homes were removed to build it. I can't believe...

Wow, so you think Torontonians deserve to lose a free and accessible recreational area on the public beaches and Toronto Island, precious water surface area where they can bring or rent kayaks/canoes, and essentially accept a louder, busier, bigger eyesore in front of Ontario Place...

I don’t know where you’re getting your information. If our current amount of passengers out of BB is 1.7 million and the proposal is to expand capacity to 10 million passengers annually, do the math. If you’re saying that bigger planes will mean not such a huge increase in flights, those...

It comes down to opportunity costs and path dependency: What are the opportunities that will be lost by expanding Billy Bishop long term? One can speculate, but it's not hard to imagine that having much heavier air traffic and a visual blight directly across from the waterfront, with all of...

What is the business case for turning the Toronto waterfront, Hanlan Beach, and Ontario Place into an airport runway observation platform? Why even bother coming to Harbourfront or Toronto Island for that? Just spend your days off on a surface parking lot under the flight path at Pearson. Do...

Pearson is in an entirely industrial-commercial zoned area between highways. There is minimal residential, nature, and park land in and around that major international airport. The natural, recreational, cultural, parks, tourism, and high profile public nature of Toronto's waterfront and...

What a sad state of affairs that some people are defending expanding a polluting, noisy eyesore that will more than quintuple the current number of flights right on the waterfront, directly in front of Ontario Place, and directly in front of Hanlan’s Beach. It’s like putting a massive garbage...

Yes there should be absolutely no further expansion of Billy Bishop. The current airport already detracts from the parks and cottage country atmosphere that makes Toronto liveable. Why would anyone who enjoys the waterfront and Clearly you don't use Toronto Island or seem very aware of it...

Billy Bishop Airport expansion, if it goes ahead, will be the beginning of the end for all that makes Toronto a good place to live and work. Toronto Island is our treasure and Central Park. Imagine standing on Hanlon's beach watching the quintupling of flights, jets no less, on an expanded...

So if it looks like Toronto's train hubs are going to boil down to Union, East Harbour, and Pearson Hub, what is the best terminus for HSR in Toronto, especially if it needs to be expandable to K-W, London, and Windsor? Is it most sensible simply to have the HSR travel alongside the 401/407...

I meant extend Sheppard west. It’s odd not having a connection between the east and west branches of the Y-U Line north of Eglinton.

I do think we need more spurs/stub stations in Toronto. Our transit planners appear to be scared of adding these short one or two station extensions. For example, there should be a spur station to the Junction. Before the OL boring machines are removed and dissembled, we should add a few...

Why isn’t it a good idea? Use diesel until electrification is complete. Hybrid train sets can use both. Yes you have longer dwell times than subway. The ST train sets could be shorter, at least until electrification is completed.

Why is a new additional line built cheaply out of existing infrastructure an idiotic idea? ST was not the same GO lines. It was a new route using multiple GO lines but with TTC fares. I still don’t understand how that can’t exist alongside Go RER and expansion plans, with a few adjustments...

I agree that in an ideal world Go, TTC, and all the transit systems municipal and provincial in the GTA will get amalgamated into a single GTA transit authority (isn’t that what Metrolinx was supposed to be?) and this system would have a zone/distanced-based fare structure (the promise of...