This can't be good

Some of the floorplans in this building are crazy

Agree with everything but people who advocate for large capital transit projects need to be very careful with the "we have to build it now before it gets more expensive" argument. This thinking held by agencies is part of the reason our costs keep increasing because it's taken as a fact of life.

Haider's role in the Toronto transportation planning scene is to have a different opinion than other transportation planners.

This piece reminds me of a recent article where shoebox developers were complaining about high DCs being the reason they can't build anymore
www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Case study: Stouffville is planning to sprawl and add 6000 residential units to the area circled in red. In an ideal world this kind of development would be centered around an infill Stouffville line stop

Well it would be LSE trains skipping Scarborough and Stouffville trains skipping Danforth making the closest transfer East Harbour. Not sure if it's still the plan but interestingly it was part of one of DB's service proposals.

It seems like there's more than enough space though? You could also eat into the parking lot to the right where the station footprint would be its widest.

The Seaton development is really awful. 0 rapid transit and mixed traffic buses after 2030. Makes no sense to develop instead of somewhere else on a GO line

Ottawa is more impressive when you consider the fact that their LRT lines aren't actually LRT. Lines 1 & 3 are metros/ subways that use trams and Lines 2 & 4 are frequent regional rail. The length of the network after the extensions is extremely impressive

Ideally the density would be located here instead of adjacent to the highway but the NIMBYs would probably not let that slide in the residential neighbourhoods

The Ontario government is spending $500 million to refurbish 181 bilevel coaches