No Streetcars to Exhibition for 2016

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Since these will also be regular HOV lanes for people w/o a HOT transponder, the policing requirements won't change.

I agree we're decades behind on transit expansion. Finally a bit has been happening in the last few years. It needs to be much more.

I agree with many of your suggestions. But for every proposed planning change, or financing proposal, and even for many proposed transit improvements, there are howls of protest. It's a matter of all of us voting, paying attention between elections, getting developer money out of the suburban elections, and trying to resist some of our own & our neighbours' knee-jerk NIMBY reactions (for example, when a suburban municipality tries to implement slightly more enlightened planning proposals). And and and...

I'm not sure what your problem with the downtown condos is. One of the largest increases in commuting patterns in the past decades has been people walking or taking short transit trips to work (and a little bit of biking), within downtown Toronto. That's a great development. At least all those condos didn't turn into cheap starter homes using up tons more land & road space in the middle of nowhere. Of course they didn't improve transit enough at the same time -- e.g., along the King St. corridor. Another related problem is: reverse commutes out of downtown. For example for a couple, one walks & works downtown, while the other drives from their downtown condo to a suburban workplace. The reverse commute used to be clear sailing; now it's jam packed. The GO Transit improvements which have finally started will help (all-day bi-directional service; should have happened 20 years ago). There also needs to be planning controls on the suburban workplaces so that transit is viable. That's tough to accept for the industry, but baby steps are taking place in that direction in some municipalities. And for some companies/industries, there has been a trend back to more accessible workplaces in the last 10 years or so.