A parable. When you go under the Bloor viaduct, only sometimes do you see a train. A certain disappointed kid might say, "The train tracks are always empty!" It's true, they are. And yet, that train moves half a million people every day, more than any of Toronto's highways.

Trains and buses are amazing - unless you are physically disabled. If I want to go anywhere on transit I either have to hire someone to assist me, OR use HandyDart and allow a minimum of two hours travel time each way! So instead I rely 100% on my driver husband to transport me 1/2

Do not be deceived by the visual magnitude of car traffic. When it comes to moving people, the train and the bike lane win. The next time you hear "the bike lane is always empty", think of the Line 2 subway. Glancing at the tracks, you don't see it, but the people get moved.

Trains n busses rock! That's why we're ignoring them n building massive oversized SUVs. But hey, they're electric ones . . And we're adding lanes to our constipated hiways! We're brilliant.

People are so used to sitting bumper-to-bumper in cars they have no idea what efficient transit is supposed to look like

I have only seen one case where a train was riding on the tail of another train, and it was LA Metrolink on the back of a really slow freight train

Also a parable in foresight and multi-generational thinking … it was designed and built to take a train decades before the line was completed.

I never see a train, so let's rip out those wasteful tracks. The subway version of Stephen Holyday's anti-bike lane rant.