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Let's have a plebiscite.

Increasing from 20 to 45

Hopefully the removal goes through

They just want cyclists dead. If you take up a lane of car traffic as a cyclist, since you’re a “motor vehicle” they’ll honk and you, swear at you and sometimes even hit you. if you bike on the sidewalk, you’ll get ticketed and yelled at by locals. So their solution is “just don’t use a bike” which, coming from Doug Ford, makes a lot of sense

I'm not even a cyclist advocate and even I'm saying to myself removing bicycle lanes are a waste of time and money. Leave them as they are until more transit is built and see where things go.

I think it's pretty clear that Ford does not actually care about transit. The only time he gives it any funding is if/when he thinks it can get non-drivers off the road and out of his way. Because he cares about vehicular traffic. Which explains why he's was willing to spend billions to fund new subway construction while also wanting to spend what would be many times more for his demented 401 tunnel proposal yet rejected drastically less expensive and proven effective options like bus and bike lanes and dislikes streetcars and surface LRTs.

We need to stop catering to cyclkists. IF its so dangerous change the laws so that they can only ride in parks and private property. Otherwise let them ride with traffic as the law sais they can do. Drivers should not encounter even one second of delay due to someone who can not ride at traffic speed. All bikel anes should be removed in all cities and towns across Ontario.

The "add one more lane" mentality is the equivalent of the West not making software efficiently and compensating for it with hardware with greater computational capacity. The result: More expensive, waste of energy, waste of resources, and waste of space.

Removing the bike lanes will not do anything to improve traffic congestion. Even with the bike lanes removed, an additional lane will not be gained. On-street parking will still be blocking the right lane. So instead now you will have increased congestion with bikes competing with cars for space, rather than each having their own space. This is a massive waste of money for zero benefit to anyone. This has zero to do with improving traffic. It's just about anti-bicycle ideology.

So next, ford will remove the 401 bike lanes, right? Since they're exclusively the problem, I'm told..? 😏😏 For real, the saddest thing is that this will do NOTHING for Toronto's conjestion, AND will result in higher road deaths for cyclists and pedestrians, and also makes things more dangerous for drivers too. Ford knows this, hence why they are trying to prevent injured parties from sueing the province, because they know this plan will INCREASE fatalities. So many drivers are insane, going 60Kph on 40Kph roads and I'm sick of it. Bloor will become a very dangerous road again. it's a lose-lose situation for everyone, all for a bankrupt Conservative culture war. The Provincial overreach here is revolting, and I for one don't want some random yahoo in Stratford for example, telling my city of Toronto how to construct our local infrasture, yet Toronto once again is bullied into submission by voters who dont even live here. It DOESN'T effect you, out-of-towner!

So are the bike lane removals for adding new bus only lanes at all?

Metrolinx is clearly incompetent but Ford keeps hiring them for other projects, notably the Ontario line, whose budget has already tripled and the project is expected to be years late in completion.

When originally proposed, the Shepard station was to be above the lower Yonge station. In a total F up, it was built above the north-south station. Westerly there is a roughed in station prior to the DonValley west branch. Easterly there is a fair distance beyond FaiviewMall.

Faster trains pleaseeeeeeeeeee

Get rid of streetcars, more subways. Get rid of bike lanes on major routes, put them on side streets. Stop being anti car. Dont vote for chow. Problem solved.

I was talking to a construction worker on this project in 2021 and he said there was 0 chance it got done before 2023. So if in 2021, they knew at a base level it was going to be 2 years (in addition to previous delays) behind. I can only imagine where they are at today. I wonder how much equipment and of the project is getting close to needing to be rebuilt. 15 years of construction; some of the stuff they laid down has to be getting close to needing maintenance or updating potentially.

Let’s not forget winter travel. Tunnelling offers protection from the elements for both equipment and passengers. 👍

Voted the best transit system in North America. Imagine how terrible the others are if this is the best we can do in North America.

Climate change is a hoax.

I don’t use the GO train for getting to work but I use it to the next town over or to Toronto for shopping, visiting friends, going to events, markets, and enjoyment. I would love to see GO train network recognize the people who use it as an affordable passenger train service and not just for commuting. Kitchener GO line really needs two way all day train service both on weekdays and weekends. I’m car free and I see it’s value, I just want it to get better. Beyond that I wish Waterloo region GRT and Guelph transit got onboard with presto. Nice to get off the train and have one card that does everything everywhere the train goes (seem less). Thanks for the video, love seeing and hearing about the upgrades.

I grew up believing that the TTC was the greatest transit system ever. I think a lot of this started when Harris was elected Premier of Ontario because he was wanting to get rid of all transit funding by dumping it all on local governments. His so-called Common Sense Revolution should’ve been called the utter nonsense revolution because that’s exactly what it was.

There should be a moratorium until they can (a) get the Eglinton line working (5 years late and billions of dollars over) (b) analyze what went wrong there. I mean, who does something wrong and then before analyzing it jumps in and does more of the same?

Opening date will be announced during the Provincial Election

Another great video OurToronto. 🙂👍 For me using the TTC especially during off-peak periods going on their bus routes that have a 10 minute or better network, it's very reliable, and they come on time. I really enjoy their Nova Bus Transit fleets that the TTC uses and their engine sounds are godly. Regarding the subways especially Line 1 and 2 need a lot of work though. 👌

Exactly: what's the point of spending millions of dollars on expanding the system if people are avoiding it due to unreliability.

cant wait to see this finished in 2069

Spending $360 million to update 16 cars means $3 mi/car. That is a lot of money. The older cars date from the late 1970s 20 will be 70 years old when the upgrade finishes. They should put more seating in pairs rather than quads with a few quads for groups. Half the seats have to be facing backwards because trains reverse. Refurbished cars can still be used in EMU service since with AC traction motors usually on 1 car in 3 or 4 is powered. This more efficient than powering all cars and is consistant with modern usuage.

If you guys want EMU's then the first thing we need to do is build the freight bypasses. So long as GO has to share track with freight, then the best we can hope for is dual powered locomotives hauling the refurbished coaches. There's so much work that needs to be done before we can get to fully electric trains. Metrolinx is misleading the public by claiming it'll happen in a couple years. It won't. Build the freight bypasses, get all lines up to "all day, 2 way" service, and then let's talk electrification.

None of this will matter if the go train is still going to use the same tracks as the big freight trains. Before upgrading the cars the signals and whatever else needs to be done they need get off cp and cn own tracks.

Mimico Go

Is this train to Oakville?

GO has around 1,000 bilevel cars. That is not much $ divided by 1,000.

Is that the ttc line 3 cars

wow almost like its a cynical election ploy , Ford giving them more money right now?

Should have just kept the whole thing underground and built a proper subway. All this time for a fancy streetcar.

While the investment is helpful, and I can appreciate that these rail cars are being refurbished right here in Ontario, I do find it frustrating that we aren’t, with electrification of the network, moving towards EMUs instead. They would allow for better acceleration of each train consist even over an electric locomotive, helping to shorten the ride for everyone. I would love to see the times increase enough that we could cut out / cut down the express trains on Lakeshore because the local trains are only add an extra 5-6 minutes because of how quickly they get up to speed. Evidence of this can be seen with CalTrain in the Bay Area down in California. With the switch to EMUs, the trip times were drastically reduced for local trains, and even express trains added more stops but still make the full trip in less than an hour.

demand? are we at pre-covid ridership yet?

I hope they keep the old pain scheme. I love the mismatch of old and new bie-level coaches too much.

look, i'm in favour of any transit investment and i only use the lakeshore line so i dont know if its worst on others and by how much. ill take your word for it. however, i think we should expedite the electrification of the lines and buy the rolling stock necessary instead of doing the referb and then immediately switching over.

Truthfully, there are so many different things to be done it's hard to pick. Better rolling stock, electrification, improving and expanding existing infrastructure, expanding to new corridors, more stations and regional services are but just a few of the things that need to be done.

If GO’s Richmond Hill line doesn’t get two way all day service, the 61 bus should get the later at least

I know its not feasable anytime soon, but Toronto SERIOUSLY needs to double-track the Yonge-University and Bloor subways so the TTC can run express trains that only stop at interchange stations and so normal trains can be diverter when repairs are needed on specific sections of the normal track. This would of course require new tunnels, so the cost would be quite high, but itd be worth it for the long term sustainabiltiy of the existing network, especially when these older lines are being extended so much and the original track is so old

We need 90% of the seats facing forward. Hardly anyone travels on GO in groups of four, and all seats facing forwards eliminates feet on seats.

The new GO train cars are definitely not comfortable. The seat alignment to the back is not proportional and the headrest makes the neck hella sore. The older cars are better in terms of comfort. GO needs to redesign the seats

You were quite right about how the older coaches still in the original Go Transit paint scheme have started showing their age and need modernization. Would this refurbishment project also include repainting?

This is a pretty good investment for more reliable and affordable electrified service for Go Transit’s rail network on all lines outside weekday peak hours by upgrading and refurbishing the older coaches including new washrooms, doors, flooring walls, lighting and seating

This LRT has the most over-engineered and ugliest overhead catenary wire system ever.

Imagine a right of way for electrified rubber tire buses. Instead once this thing finally opens they will begin replacing the rail before long and replace service with buses.

Thanks for the video! Also, I think it would be great if you can get a better microphone or add sound dampening to the place where you do recording to improve the sound quality.

West to Sheppard West Stn. and east to Scarborough Town Centre Stn.