Toronto's Ontario Line - Still Worth It?: Episode 135

Links and stuffs

Timestamps

• 0:00 Setting up
• 2:47 Canada acknowledgement
• 4:21 Tweet read-aloud
• 5:21 The Onion front page from 25 years ago
• 7:49 Intro
• 8:43 The break (no good news :( )
• 12:49 End of break > The Toronto subway's geographic bottleneck
• 16:35 See Picture: Streetcar tunnel map^[15]
• 18:45 See Picture: x2 from Toronto Transit Wiki^[9]
• 19:45 Transit 2011
• 26:47 Downtown Rapid Transit Extension Study > Doug Ford
• 28:56 See Picture: Alternative comparison map^[13]
• 31:47 Cost...
• 38:30 So expensive we can't build anything
• 40:42 Patrons

References & notes

1. [1] Mormon News: BYU Kennedy Center director killed in bike accident in Provo: BYU Kennedy Center director killed in bike accident in Provo
2. [2] Wikipedia: Relief Line (Toronto) § 1980s: A new subway line
3. [3] Infrastructure Ontario: Ontario Line
4. [4] Metrolinx: Ontario Line - What Were Building
5. [5] Metrolinx: Ontario Line - Trains and Technology
6. [6] Wikipedia: Toronto subway
7. [7] Wikipedia: Ontario Line
8. [8] Metrolinx: Ontario Line
9. [9] Transit Toronto: A History of the Downtown Relief Subway Line
10. [10] Transit Toronto: A History of the Ontario Line
11. [11] The Transit Brief: Why transit suddenly costs so much
12. [12] Wikipedia: List of countries and dependencies by area
13. [13] Metrolinx: A comparison of a partially elevated Ontario Line vs Relief Line (reposted, original link is dead)
14. [14] "Ontario Line Exhibition station construction 2026" by Transportfan70, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
15. [15] Toronto Transit Commission: A proposed subway map from the 1944 report Rapid Transit for Toronto