Toronto LRT Information Blog

My apologies to those who check back here regularly looking for new information, since few new additions have been made recently. That will change over the next few weeks.

One change will be a significant update to the York Region Options page. The Spadina Subway extension is underway, so there is no point in in dwelling on what could have been done with the funds. Since there has been no commitment in the funding of a Yonge Subway extension to Richmond Hill, and since its cost is somewhat more than I had anticipated in my analysis of what could be done with that money, a new look at this is in order.

I also expect to have another city added to this site after next week. I won’t yet say which city, but suffice it to say it is a good example of LRT that operates in both its own right of way and in full mixed traffic. Oh, and it provides airport access as well!

Sometime in the next week, this site will be down for a brief period as it will be relocated to a new server by the hosting provider. Additionally, the “daxack.ca” domain will be assigned a new IP address and this will take a few hours to propagate across the Internet, so the actual outage period may be up to about four hours in length.

I was going to post about this when it first came out in early December, but I thought I would wait until an electronic version was available.
Regional and local councillor Vito Spatafora made use of an image originally from this site in his Fall-Winter 2009-2010 newsletter. While credit for the image would have been nice, it is not necessary as this site’s copyright notice allows the non-commercial use of photos and diagrams created by myself (hold you mouse over a photo or image on a non-blog page and a tool-text will appear telling you if it was me, the page author, or someone else).

I can’t speak for his position on LRT development, aside from the Don Mills/Leslie extension of the Transit City Don Mills line. I have sent him a message through his website (my email bounces when sent to the Town of Richmond Hill) but have yet to hear a reply.

I cannot express enough thanks when I receive contributions to this site. Sometimes they come in the form of pointing out errors or providing updated information. All of these help in trying to keep information that is up-to-date and useful for everyone.

Occasionally, I get contributions that are quite substantial. The Calgary page was quite low on content until Aman Hayer contacted me an offered to take more photos of the system.

Recently, I was contacted by James Greenhalgh who provided me with new photos for the Dallas page and the Buffalo page. I finished the update of the Dallas page in the past week, and will be doing the same for the Buffalo page soon. In addition to this, James had material for a couple of new cities that were not already featured on this site. He offered to create the entire pages for these and I am pleased to announce that the first such page is now online: San Diego.

Once again, many thanks to James and Aman, and all the others who have contacted me with updates and corrections.

The first part of a two-part article on transit issues appeared this week in local newspapers printed by the York Region Media Group. This first part covers the LRT alternatives for York Region as outlined on this site (here).

I invite others to post there comments here, on this blog.