Jonathan English @EnglishRail
PhD in Urban Planning, Columbia University. Writer for pubs incl @CityLab, @GlobeandMail. Fellow, @NYUMarron. transitfutures.blogspot.com Joined January 2014-
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New video today from @RM_Transit on the Waterfront East LRT: youtu.be/0Pv5hkmMME0 Reece looks at opportunities for eastern waterfront integration within the broader transit network.
TIL Kariya, Japan has a miniature replica of Mississauga City Hall.
Pretty striking how big the benefits of GO Expansion will be! (Chart from Metrolinx fare integration IBC)
Great to see the business case for fare integration has been released. Hope to see integration soon! assets.metrolinx.com/image/upload/I…
This is wild. A gigantic plane to haul ore and oil from Canadian Arctic/Alaska to closest rail line, complete with 12 747 engines. Twice the size of An-225 and five times the payload! Unsurprisingly wasn’t going to happen after the energy crisis. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_RC…
There’s an oft-repeated idea that express buses are bad financially for agencies because they have low turnover. But if bus is full of people riding a long way to a major destination, there’s no turnover anyway & bus+operator do fewer trips/move fewer ppl per hour on slower route
Important update on fare integration. Delayed till February, but still underway. The report I wrote for the Board of Trade goes into a lot of detail on potential scenarios. bot.com/Resources/Reso…
Important update on fare integration. Delayed till February, but still underway. The report I wrote for the Board of Trade goes into a lot of detail on potential scenarios. bot.com/Resources/Reso…
I wrote an article in @Bloomberg on the Montreal REM. Its remarkably low cost per kilometre means it has valuable lessons for other North American cities. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Claude Cormier's concept for Ordnance: a swimming pool, two restaurants, a belvedere. This could have been perhaps Toronto's best public space.
I absolutely want as much housing supply as possible, but I will say on my quarterly Yonge street walk that these buildings absolutely make the street experience MUCH worse, it’s not the density or how they look (ok podium of #2 is pretty bad) but all the retail gone!
Amazing post suggesting that Vancouver, Canada should envy our transit in Portland, Oregon. Portland's light rail is adorable but painfully slow across downtown. Vancouver's driverless rapid transit is underground downtown and is far more frequent ... (1/)
As I study this Portland Oregon train/tram map I can't help but think we may have made a terrible mistake in Vancouver building underground subways and SkyTrain. Hopefully we will build light rail to UBC and elsewhere throughout the region.
And there's no comparison in the land use response: Towers around almost every station in greater Vancouver, light rail stations in ravines next to highways in Portland, with few buildings over 4 stories near stations outside downtown. 2/
I love Portland and love living here, but let's not kid ourselves. We built transit to create a feel of European urbanism that appealed to developers and leaders at the time. Vancouver built (and is building) transit to liberate and transform the entire region. 3/
Checking out some more unique freight transportation in an area with no roads that are passable by motor vehicle.
Once we have electrification, and the new stations and trains - things are going to be pretty amazing, and all that is underway as we speak!
The exciting thing is the changes we can expect in the future are only going to make this more and more like the networks of Europe and Asia, but even now 30 minute train service is a big deal because of how fast GO is. Even better is we just got integrated fares!
15 minute frequency on Kitchener and Stouffville (this is also dependent on some track work that is ongoing) isn’t that far away (assuming we have enough trains) as the fourth track on Kitchener and Lakeshore East are being build right now!
Of course there is much more to come, such as 30 minute trains on Lakeshore all the way to Hamilton, increased Barrie line frequency (track work is behind other lines because it won’t be through running).
Stouffville is also getting its hourly evening service back, and based on construction progress should be able to be linked in to the 30 minute Kitchener line service by end of year, giving Toronto two cross region through running regional train lines.
I said recently I predicted this would happen by Eglinton opening and surprise surprise we got it!
Kitchener is getting 30 minute service out to Brampton, connecting to tons of key destinations in West Toronto as well. Lakeshore has had this for over a decade and it’s massively increased ridership, Kitchener has even more potential with the huge ridership growth recently!
Much of the Lakeshore Line is going back towards all day 15 minute! That means for portions of the day there will be 4 trains per hour from Oakville to Oshawa!
Massive Toronto transit news makes for a GREAT Friday! After years of talking about it, we are seeing some BIG service improvements across the Toronto regional rail network! This is another huge step in turning GO from a commuter network to a regional rapid transit system! 🧵
Our Director of Policy for Transportation & Infrastructure, @MonWyrzykowska, addressed the @cityoftoronto's Infrastructure & Environment Committee this week, highlighting the severe economic impact of #congestion and pressed for urgent action to alleviate congestion in #Toronto.
@brendanwhitsitt @ChrisSpoke @EnglishRail has been known to read books! We were talking about this just the other day: Jacob's love for chaotic libertine places, gets reframed as 'small is beautiful'... Or maybe that she has two energies, that are somewhat in tension...
@EnglishRail Feels almost obvious. “We’re going to bring semi-rapid transit service to like 6 lines” should lead to a huge ridership boom!
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