turbanplanner
Senior Member
Hate when they do a half assed paving job
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drum118
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Boils down to money and what is needed to make the road safe. If you want all that area fully pave, speak to your councilor and Transportation and works. You can always pickup the extra cost to do it your way.
kotsy
Senior Member
They've just opened the intersection to cyclists & pedestrians with the fencing being taken down and pylons left up to deter cars. Everything is done except concrete around a sewer in the middle of the intersection. Not sure what the problem is but it's been cone'd off for the last few days.
kotsy
Senior Member
Update on the King & Dufferin shutdown: concrete is now curing around that sewer. I would expect the intersection to be fully open tomorrow or Sunday.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
I get it but even what they do is usually subpar (as compared to what was agreed upon)
DSCToronto
Superstar
That is really NOT usually the case.
crs1026
Superstar
Interesting well writtenarticle in the NY Times about Mamdani's plan for NYC buses. Definitely one to watch.
The parallels to Toronto are, well, quite apparent.
- Paul
The parallels to Toronto are, well, quite apparent.
- Paul
zang
Senior Member
If Toronto were to attempt something as grand as Mamdani's plan (which ultimately means an increase in transit-only ROW), I can nearly guarantee it'd get stomped on by Doug Ford faster than he ran from his brother's death bed to City Hall to sign up to run for mayor.
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crs1026
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No doubt, I'm even not sure that NYC will actually buy the plan or that it is as practical as claimed. It's just interesting how similar the complaints are to our TTC, and how bold the solution that is being offered is.
This is a good case however to show just how narrow Ford's insight and beliefs about how to manage and grow cities really are. The guy has never ventured out of central Etobicoke, and his solutions are simply not informed by anything beyond what central Etobicoke wants.
So while it may be poking the bear, it helps open up the dialogue that's needed.
- Paul
JasonParis
Moderator
Doug knows Chicago well — it’s got a decent subway system but not much in the way of frequent surface transit. There are no streetcars, and only a few scattered bus-priority lanes. It’s probably where a lot of his thinking about transit comes from.
zang
Senior Member
As a councillor, Doug use to love talking about making Toronto a "world class city", and yet both then and now, steadfastly resists the examples of London, Paris, New York, etc. in decreasing car access, building large bike networks, lowering speed limits, pedestrianizing swaths of the city, etc. He's all talking point, zero action. If it isn't a four-wheeled rolling living room or live in the 905, it doesn't matter to him.
rbt
Senior Member
I've been less impressed by their subway operations. The map looks great but actual service varies significantly by line; though it doesn't help I tend to visit on weekends.
Yellow or Pink line Sunday service [roughly 15 minute frequencies] is on-par with Lakeshore GO sunday service. Toronto's rapid transit map gets a lot larger if you start adding GO services to it.
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kotsy
Senior Member
I shouldn't have said anything with respect to the King & Dufferin reopening this past weekend.
It seems there are problems that need to be fixed with the concrete work. Now there is spray paint all over the intersection and various sections of concrete being cut.
It seems there are problems that need to be fixed with the concrete work. Now there is spray paint all over the intersection and various sections of concrete being cut.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
The Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) closed the Red Line for several months in 2021-2022 for a reconstruction project on the South Side, which included nine stations between Cermak-Chinatown and 95th/Dan Ryan. While this was a significant closure, another recent, but shorter, project in 2021-2025 closed four stations on the North Side for extended periods for a major modernization effort
Thank god we don't close entire sections of our subway lines for years though
smallspy
Senior Member
While I can't identify what the orange circles are for, the concrete cuts are to install the antennas for the various systems at the intersection - TTC's N/A switch activation system, traffic signal loop sensors, etc.
Dan