Better TTC

We do want to respect the spending of tax funds. Dollars spent on Transit City could be wasted and stopping it truly is crucial.

Go to the SRT in Scarborough. The TTC internally calls it the Silly Ridiculous Train. It is an excellent example of funds wasted and it shares exactly the same troubles with Transit City. Also, ride the new St. Clair line and also you will see what I'm talking about. The worst waste will be the reality that with each and every program you need upkeep, inventory, staff and storage facilities. Feel about that. Imagine if each and every technique we built needed a separate support technique.

Do you like standing in a blizzard waiting for a surface vehicle that may be late because of the storm?

That's St. Clair.

The tracks are exposed towards the identical climate and don't last. We have spent millions replacing track and concrete that keeps breaking up on the streets and anyplace it's exposed to the Toronto weather.

By the way, the new light rail vehicles (streetcars in disguise) will likely be low-floor. How properly do you think that will work in deep snow? We need subways in this environment. There is no other way to go.

Yes, they're more high-priced but they're considerably far better investments. Building Transit City could be a significantly bigger waste because it would end up like the SRT and St. Clair. It would must be replaced and at a a lot greater price.

I ought to also mention an important design principle referred to as grade separation.

Any two systems that share the same plane should interfere with each other. A mathematician can prove that, a draughtsman knows it and a 10-year-old can understand it.

Any emergency like a fire and, whoops, the surface line is dead. We require subways and we are now decades behind on their construction.

We have been supposed to create a few stations each year since 1960. If we proceeded then, we would have a total subway technique like any other city of related size. Some people say we can't afford subways. We need them. Feel about it. Exactly where do we have troubles?

The parts of the program that are exposed to bad climate, like the North Yonge subway, the SRT and obviously St. Clair. Even Montreal has a subway system. What is Toronto's excuse?

I'm not French but the French would say we are English and are stupid. I wonder sometimes. On Transit City we confident don't appear smart. Toronto the excellent and low-cost. You'll find a lot of things incorrect with Transit City there's not space to checklist them here.

The Eglinton "Streetcars in Holes" method would endure the same fate as the SRT. It's going to must be replaced as well as the tracks and holes (tunnels) won't be big enough for subways so the complete factor will must be rebuilt. Toronto has unquestionably lost its world-class city rating. Among the causes is transit. Go to any main city and you will see the distinction. How did we get the Yonge subway? It was a referendum. If required, which is the way we will need to go. Cheapest is not finest. By the way, Canada makes the largest and greatest tunnel-boring machines.

I am a retired professional engineer and I am sad to see the sorry state of Toronto's method. Engineers can and will design significantly better far more economical systems if asked to. Would you buy a vehicle just since it truly is cheap? The contractors say pay me now or pay me later. We're now becoming forced to pay and pay a lot more. Let's stop the nonsense. I wish I had taken dentistry as opposed to engineering. At the very least I would see some positive final results.