Vending machines are also a tacit admission that the TTC is giving up on filling the retail kiosks at these stations. (Usually the tenant would insist upon exclusivity over soft drinks, chips, etc. within so many meters of their unit.) Not so surprising at Castle Frank. Surprising at Cedarvale...

Other way 'round. The business case for HSR to Quebec City is actually pretty weak: most demand for this service will be concentrated within the existing corridor triangle, with Quebec City a secondary destination that may only command a limited service. One compelling reason for including...

Bearing in mind that we are specifically talking about people who need rudimentary transit directions, I would not overestimate the share of these people who could, at any given moment, confidently tell you which cardinal direction they are facing.

Called it.

I might add: there are a few places on the line where, in order to reach a given destination, you need to do a 180° turn after going up or down a staircase, and the signage doesn't always account for this. The expectation seems to be that people unfamiliar with a station are going to arrive at a...

https://niagaranow.com/news.phtml/royal-george-theatre-demolition-begins-after-court-dismisses-legal-challenge/ Demolition of the old theatre began this week, following months of delays related to court challenges.

Doug Ford can solve it: he just has to announce that these are the replacement for the Ontario Place water park and have staff start handing out inflatable rings.

Goodness. Imagine spending sixty gajillion dollars on station renovations and leaving the floors in that state.

Sometimes, staff go pee.

The one reason you'd go full height in a station with a 20-metre ceiling is that it allows you to climate control the station. If we aren't doing that, there's no point.

There is never going to be a Toronto water commuter service except to the Toronto Islands. Ferries work best when they cut directly across bodies of water (like the Dartmouth Ferry or the Vancouver SeaBus), or when they serve routes that are particularly inconvenient by surface transport. (Like...

That's the plan, yes. The concourse will also be the route the general public will take to cross the tracks from Liberty Village.

But this polling is also somewhat deceptive: this is a case where First Past The Post really screws things up. The Quebec Liberals are in a position where they're winning > 70% of the vote in Gatineau and parts of Montreal, and completely uncompetitive in most other parts of the province...

The PQ are a predominantly rural party who will probably win very few seats in Montreal and no representation in Gatineau or the Outaouais. (They are more competitive in Quebec City, but this is because Quebec City is suffused with extremely close 3-way races, making it possible for a party to...

I would expect the opposite outcome. HSR is going to make Toronto and Montreal more significant as travel hubs: HSR doesn't just make these cities more attractive to visit, it also makes them more convenient places to connect on to other destinations, in ways that will tend to accelerate demand...