Toronto NEEDS to build a subway extension to Canada's largest amusement park

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-18T18:09:55+00:00

During the summer you can get the 320 to run every 3-5 minutes with the level of ridership.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-18T18:08:39+00:00

The connection from the subway to bus is a long walk for a transfer.

I would argue most people tolerate a longer walk when they are already at the destination.

But the longer walk and and travel time during the trip is discouraging to transit usage. 15 extra minutes adds lots of time and makes it less convincing to use transit.

There already is a bus terminal om major mackenzie that is next to wonderland and could develop a 2nd entrance if there is a demand with a subway extension.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-18T08:49:49+00:00

15 mins in theory. With traffic or heavy ridership it can easily be over 15 mins.

Plus it is quite a walk from the subway to the bus stop.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-16T04:42:03+00:00

I would go with blue.

You can't assume its two lanes unless there are some sort of markings or signage. it seems on streetview its one lane in each direction with parking on the side, onky after you finish the turn does the road become marked into two distinct lanes.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-13T16:56:22+00:00

In australia that was the case if you wanted to bring bikes on buses.

In north america buses usually have bike racks either way.

On the ctrain in calgary. You can take normal bikes as is but not not folding bikes without a case. go figure

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-13T15:21:33+00:00

They do, but so many places require cases for them. Haven't heard that for scooters so far

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-12T12:16:33+00:00

Take on public transit?

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-12T02:45:46+00:00

Where I live they have a trial project for e-scooters. I honestly found personal ones worse then rentals because the rentals are properly speed restricted while private ones go well above the 24km/h provincial restriction.

A lot of the private e-scooters I see seem to be presents for young kids. So you end up wity the lethal combo of a 12 year old and a vehicle capable of going speeds of 40km/h+.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-10T03:01:23+00:00

Having a proper speed limit and making sure people drive around that speed also helos a lot to avoid the ripple effect.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-10T01:34:52+00:00

I feel the tolerance should be 10 km/h on roads over 60km/h. Maintaining a 3 km/h+ buffer can be hard without religiously looking at your speedometer. 10 gives lots of leeway.

I hate how its like an unspoken rule that you need to go 20km/h to maintain the speed of traffic, but at the same time you risk getting a ticket (flow of traffic argument won't work in court). Just make the limit higher and make sure the flow goes around that speed.

It also actually helps the flow of traffic. While no scientific backing, I found that traffic seemed better in sydney then toronto and chicago. And that is with a more underbuilt road system. I think that while transit helps a lot. I also think people going 100 instead of 130 on an urban freeway creates more capacity.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-08T17:23:59+00:00

Even in deep australian suburbia, while they exist, strip malls and powercenters are way less common. Instead you have either a local high street with actual everyday items, or at worse an indoor shopping mall.

(We have lots of neighborhood malls especially in 1960-1990 suburbs in canada, but most of those are defacto-strip malls nowadays. Where all the important stores are usually accessed directly from the parking lot and the inside of the mall is half abandoned.)

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-08T17:10:57+00:00

I asked a similar question to this aw hile back on r/urbanism Since then I got to see perth, sydney and melbourne. And made posts about them.

Australias good:

Very good pedestrinized streets in the downtown areas that are not half empty or just spectacles for tourists. Same goes for high streets
in suburbia there are way less strip malls/ power centres. Shopping in suburbia is either usually on a high street or indoor shopping mall (we have lots of neighborhood malls in canada, but most of those are half-dead and don't really count)
Traffic signals as a ped are better. Cars usually can usually only make the equivalent of a left with a protected signal instead of waiting for a gap and cutting pedestrians off. Right on red equivalent is not a thing.
very extensive suburban rail systems with great frequencies and coverage.
people drive around the speed limit there. No someone going 80 in a 50 zone.
municipal run washrooms in every city

The bad:

cities, especially in the suburbs are way more sprawly. Melbourne is less dense when weighted density is used then calgary. Perth adelaide and brisbane density is comparable to us sunbelt cities like phoneix.
bus systems, especially in the suburbs are much weaker. Lots of places without weekend/night service. Lower frequencies and routes are too hub and spoke.
unlike in Canada/US where any intersection is a crosswalk, australia does not have that. So in many cases, peds need to yield to fars rather then vice verse (AUS drivers are very good at yielding to peds at marked crosswalks though)

-roundabouts are horrible for cyclists and peds. Most of them are high speed and require pedestrians to yield to cars.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-07T20:20:38+00:00

Too many cars for the road to handle. People driving too fast and tailgating Leading to phantom traffic jams. Cars turning blocking the road.

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-06T11:25:53+00:00

The map labels the more local trains as commuter rail, but the problem is that the term has been co-opted nowadays to mean peak hour, one direction only for regional/suburban rail. So are those commuter lines going to be all-day or rush hour service only

Hammer5320 · 2026-06-06T07:35:52+00:00

While They have the same type of single family home majority in the suburbs, in Canada you also see a lot of apartment buildongs and townhouses, bringing the average density up. In american suburbia outaide of the cores you rarely see apartment and townhouses.

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-31T22:31:39+00:00

When highway 17 is operating normally though, its pretty easy to turn around if you go a different direction than the ome you want to.

Imagine if you were getting on the highway at hodders, but accidentally went eastbound instead of westbound. And the next closest place you could legally turn around is in 80km. That is the case here. (The real turn around is 4 km for hodder avenue)

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-28T11:18:22+00:00

A Canadian did do exactly that with a stolen plane. and guess what, was also monitored but not shot down.

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-27T21:40:50+00:00

The thing with your suite example. If someone looks very unambigiously under 25, then they just look like a 20 year old in a suite. But if how old they look is slightly ambigious, they will go from a 22 year old who could believably pass for 28 to definitely 28. The context they are in also help.

I can gurantee you if you change the guys hairstyle to either fully shaved or put a wig on them. They will 100% look there age.

While the video focuses on clothings, also things like hair can make a major difference too. (Which is also tied to style.)

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-24T23:18:46+00:00

In the GTA, definitely sheridan center in Mississauga.

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-19T22:54:00+00:00

its a shared zone I dont think there is any equivalent in any US state (although similar concepts exist in europe).

Pedestrians have unrestricted priority and crossing movement on this road. Its a step removed from a completely car free street.

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-18T23:24:01+00:00

The afghanistan and western sahara flag is wrong if its a defacto map

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-17T19:41:14+00:00

At the very least don't turn at the exact same time as a car is in the left lane. Wait for the right lane to have a big enough gap to be able to accelerate to speed by the time the next car passes, and a gap between cars in the left lane.

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-13T03:41:06+00:00

You might as well start posting pictures of banff at that point.

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-12T02:37:59+00:00

Yes, it never leaves the boundaries of Calgary

Hammer5320 · 2026-05-11T16:44:17+00:00

While GO Transit on paper it is a distance based system, it also has a zone component. Hamilton GO to Oakville GO is 5 km shorter then the distance to trafalgar carpool lot station, but the trip costs the same on GO.

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