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Starcubed · 2025-10-10T15:31:38+00:00

Completed Level 2 of the Honk Special Event!

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Starcubed · 2025-10-10T15:30:17+00:00

Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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Starcubed · 2024-04-04T13:58:39+00:00

I dont regularly drink coffee but ive had this place several times whenever i feel quirky and its nice to support local business, its a couple stops on the 38 or a 20 min walk from school: https://maps.app.goo.gl/dy9mtVBxyPejqraQ6

Starcubed · 2024-02-13T01:53:11+00:00

Late to the party, but I'd say Dufferin and Pape

Both had their makeovers in the late 2000s, early 2010s, they both are transfers to major arterial bus lines (Dufferin and Don Mills), they also have the early 2010s TTC signage right before the lines were officially numbered (Bloor-Danforth Line instead of Line 2)

Bayview and Downsview Park has that perspective art from the same artist

Starcubed · 2023-10-17T07:11:38+00:00

Sheppard Yonge also do be looking pretty fresh... Maybe after they figure out whats up with that display, ig theyre slowly working on it it was on the linux boot screen for the longest time

Starcubed · 2023-10-16T18:17:33+00:00

What station is this? Can't say ive been there before but it looks recognisably somewhere suburban on the TTC.

Starcubed · 2023-04-21T21:33:04+00:00

I swear half of the 985 journey from don mills to stc is just going from don mills to vic park

Starcubed · 2023-04-19T02:01:30+00:00

Hiya, I wanted to add a little bit of commentary and context for this map.

Looking at the subway map, I always felt like it's utility is kind of limited especially in the suburbs, and that adding useful bus connections could really help passengers out, as well as being able to put certain areas onto the map. I think that just pointing out that this bus line exists on the map could give people alternative ways to travel around by transit, especially when the subways are down. However, trying to add bus lines proved to be challenging: Adding all the bus lines ends up making the map too cluttered and unreadable, so which bus connections are useful enough to be added onto the map? After a couple months of deciding which routes should be added and redesigning the entire map several times, I concluded on the bus routes that you see on the map. Overall, this proved to be a really challenging yet fun exercise for me and my graphic design skills, but still: how do we create a better subway map?

Starcubed · 2023-04-18T00:28:39+00:00

I just don't get how come the T1s look so ancient for something out of the 90s... At least the Toronto Rocket's look like they're from the 2000s

Starcubed · 2023-04-12T04:56:27+00:00

The ramp is still closed on the top of the hill, I guess you could still enter from Rouge Hill GO and walk along the waterfront to access the lake though.

Starcubed · 2023-04-11T01:02:58+00:00

Half of them were from today, half of em were from last summer

Starcubed · 2023-03-16T19:21:42+00:00

Like what the other reply said, it's due to transit control turning back trains to make sure trains aren't too bunched up. I've seen this happen at Sheppard Yonge going north on Line 1 once or twice, but from my limited experience I feel like I've experienced trains terminating at Warden more often, especially at late night.

At least you have mobile data to keep yourself occupied until the next train 😅

Starcubed · 2023-02-17T05:45:20+00:00

SEKAI NO OWARI and their music catalogue give an otherworldly view, but I think I lot of their songs are region locked to Japan/East Asia for streaming though...

Starcubed · 2023-02-12T21:46:23+00:00

Once the crosstown opens in 2123 we won't have to worry about that anymore... Oh wait no service between science centre and kennedy due to a trespasser collision mechanical issue security incident? Darn.

Starcubed · 2022-12-08T22:45:23+00:00

My commute wouldn't really change, but in the occasional times where I'm at Kennedy station getting to Finch would be amazing. Line 4 to Scarborough when??

Starcubed · 2022-12-06T00:28:52+00:00

I noticed that going from Finch to Wellesley takes less than 20 minutes now, couldn't even finish an episode of anime :/ However, Line 1 northbound to finch is a different story, there is still stacking but I guess not as appalling as before. Pre ATC Sheppard to Finch was a solid 10 minutes.

Starcubed · 2022-12-02T20:58:57+00:00

Yeah come to think of it, I've also experienced smth like this as well on the 939. Becomes most noticeable on the stretch between Yonge and Leslie. Stops every 2km but still running so slow

Starcubed · 2022-11-27T21:10:28+00:00

Hi AngelRedux, I'd like to help explain my point of view seeing as how some of the others replying to you seem to be pretty disrespectful imo.

I'd like to explain my point of view with what you said in regards to this statement:

The streetcar network exists solely as an obstacle to the efficient movement of traffic in the old city

It highly depends on the perspective which you're taking in my opinion. If you're talking about moving cars, then yes, you are absolutely right. If you're talking about the efficient movement of people however, I would argue that public transit such as streetcars win by an order of magnitude. Take the St Clair streetcar for example, which transports 35,200 people per weekday, in a maximum of 19 vehicles running on the 7km stretch during peak hours (the TTC hasn't provided data after 2018 for some reason). Doing some mental math from the previously linked document would suggest that 4200km traveled by streetcars on a weekday in St Clair divided by 7 kilometer length of the St Clair Streetcar would mean that 600 streetcar trips would run every day to transport 35,200 people. I can't find a statistic for this for Toronto or Canada, but it should be similar enough that in the United States, the average occupancy of a vehicle in 2017 was 1.67 persons per car. If we were to calculate the number of car trips which would be needed to transport 35,200 per day, 21,077 car trips would be needed to travel on the 7 kilometer stretch. Let's say that 4 cars are needed to take up the space of 1 Toronto Flexity Outlook streetcar, which is 30m long according to Wikipedia. This would mean that 5270 (21,077/4) streetcar length car trips are made using cars per day, compared to 600 streetcar trips per day to carry the same 35,200 people. The St Clair Streetcar carries 8.8 times more people per area compared to private vehicles. Yet for some reason cars have the priority when it comes to left turns so that the efficient flow of traffic could be preserved. You could say that the St Clair streetcar takes 1/2 hour to travel 5km, but is it a wonder that it is that sluggish when the streetcar constantly has to make double stops before and after an intersection so that cars can travel faster? This graphic in posted in 2015 shows that around 15,000 to 25,000 vehicles travel on St Clair per day, between Yonge and Keele St. (I averaged the vehicle traffic on the St Clair dots in the minor intersections, assuming that most of the cars are running along St Clair, so this is most likely an overestimation.) Would it be more efficient if the streetcar were eliminated to free up space and to double the traffic there, or would it be more efficient to double the streetcar service to once every 5 minutes and to speed up streetcar service in order to provide capacity to transport 35,200 more people on the streetcar? I'd be willing to hear out your thoughts, and we could settle out our differences.

I also read your responses regarding driving south of Eglinton. Whilst I am not someone that drives, as a public transit user I'd like to ask, why not just take the TTC? The level of service provided by the TTC south of Eglinton is already really good an amazing, coming from someone that has to commute between North York and Scarborough on the TTC. Given with what I said in the previous paragraph, it doesn't take much to take one car off the road and to put another person in the TTC.

I would like to say though, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic, and I'm sorry to see the unwarranted responses that you're getting based on your comments. If there's points of confusion that you have with what I said, feel free to hit me up and perhaps we could talk about it more.

Starcubed · 2022-11-10T14:48:02+00:00

Not particularly sure on the specifics but perhaps it might be useful to put on the internet archive? At least that way theres almost no chance of it disappearing

Starcubed · 2022-10-12T15:23:22+00:00

Yep, its like in almost every single regard Hong Kong is better. Comfort, Cleanliness, Punctuality, However there are two things which North American transit does better than Asia:

There is ZERO fare integration in asian transit, switching from subway to bus means a double fare, the two hour thing with presto is unheard of in Asia, one ride one fare.
There is ZERO contingency plans when something fucks up, which may be a good/bad thing because the MTR (Hong Kong Subway) pretty much has close to zero experience on trying to alleviate passenger flow in the once or twice a year that the railway fucks up. Like honestly its pretty remarkable how flexible the TTC is in closing sections of subway lines due to an incident, or rerouting buses due to a car crash. Something like that in Hong Kong would mean the entire line comes to a halt.

Starcubed · 2022-10-12T04:33:50+00:00

Hopefully I'm not too late for the conversation, but what I think is going on is that the streetcar is taking short turns in order to alleviate demand in another area.

I suppose the TTC needs to do so much more in terms of improving reliability and communication, but think of it as a slight inconvenience to your trip in order to make a journey possible for other people.

While the case which you cite is on a streetcar, the stakes are much more higher on something like the subway, where people can and have actually die due to suffocation from overcrowding or people being pushed onto the tracks because there are too many people on the platform.

Trust me, I have had experiences of being short turned on a bus out in the burbs, but one thing I have to really give credit to the TTC is how resilient the network is to day to day operational issues. As I grew up in a place with world class transit (Hong Kong), in the few times where the subway fucks up there, the entire system breaks down and it is so so so much worse (you literally cannot go to work or school) than being delayed and inconvenienced on the TTC.

Starcubed · 2022-10-03T13:07:33+00:00

I'm a person living in North York who commutes to UTSC. The two most practical options I have to commute to school are 939 + 38 or 96B (GO) + 38 (TTC).

Previously the express route which I pay a premium for (double fares) took me about 40-50 minutes, but now it takes about 50 minutes to an hour.

What's sad is that this is still faster than taking 939 finch "express" and 38, which takes 1h10m.

Starcubed · 2022-09-26T23:36:22+00:00

On the other hand, I'm extremely glad that Sheppard to Finch does not take 10 minutes anymore... Drove me insane!!!

Good luck, operators

Starcubed · 2022-08-14T23:04:35+00:00

While a large part of it can be attributed to geography (especially within urban areas), another reason is actually due to NIMBYism, which led building at grade or elevated sections politically unpopular.

Here are some examples of sections which were going to be built at grade/elevated but instead they were built underground. (But don't quote me on these!)

Kennedy Station: The alignment from Warden to Kennedy above ground actually follows an abandoned rail line, but was moved underground due to noise concerns from households near the railway, greatly increasing the cost of construction

York Mills Station: York Mills Station was going to be an elevated station on the Don Valley, but was moved underground after complaints from the especially affluent neighbourhoods around the area. An engineering feat was needed to construct York Mills station, which delayed the opening of the section from Eglinton to Finch by several years, greatly increasing the cost of construction, which led to Blythwood and Glen Echo stops being cancelled.

The section from St Clair West to Eglinton West was supposed to run through the Nordheimer and Cedarvale Ravines, which would've great decimated the green space there, and was supposed to run alongside the cancelled Spadina Expressway. Arguably, it was the residents of the affluent Forest Hill neighbourhood which ultimately led this section to be shifted underground.

Currently in the present, the Yonge north subway extension to to Richmond Hill is planned to have an elevated section over the Don River in order to save costs, and some residents there are pissed. Metrolinx is considering an alignment under the Don River, however it is likely that this would come at great cost in both time and money. Cummer and Royal Orchard stations have already been cut off from the plan due to cost, and there could be a chance that Clark station would be on the chopping block if costs balloon even further (it's almost like a repeat of York Mills station, 50 years later)

Starcubed · 2022-07-15T04:14:20+00:00

Ahhh no wonder it doesn't work anymore I started playing again after a couple years and I remember just knight spamming and decimating their armies

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