I think what bugs me the most about folks pushing a 401 alignment, engineering and costs aside, is that there is an implicit component of "make it the problem of the tens of thousands of homes and businesses abutting the corridor" that I find so callous. Using the 401 would uproot way more...

https://www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/business-tourism-officials-want-high-speed-rail-to-arrive-in-the-heart-of-ottawa/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69ef56f6fd4ea00001d966c7&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky Am I crazy or could you convert the LRT into a...

I wouldn't be surprised if these "citizen researchers" start advocating for rubbing ivermectin horse paste on VIA trains for speed benefits, based on the quality of work I've seen thus far.

Excuse my ignorance of track engineering, but if hypothetically a bunch of switches are added to the section between, say Peterborough and Ottawa, to allow small towns to access the mainline, wouldn't this add a ton of maintenance complexity to the part of the line that needs to remain at top...

Open up the departures page for Pearson and Bill Bishop, CTRL+F and search for "Ottawa" or "Montreal". There's your answer. The business model already exists today, this nonsense about "moving up to 2 hours away" is either because you're massively overthinking this or twisting reality into a...

My assumption is he would do what Doug Ford did with Wynne's renewable energy projects: cancel them and attribute the massive costs of litigating and settling them to his political enemies. If by some chance he chose to keep the project, he'd probably employ the "shared sacrifice for the...

Thank you, I started googling when the cameras started rolling but they must post these things with tight timing. I find "The project’s total estimated cost is greater than the current federal deficit" a little misleading and is definitely a bit "big number scary!" move, it's not like that cost...

Is anyone else watching Poilievre's conference in Peterborough at the moment? It's a bit schizophrenic with the logic - he simultaneously is calling the project too slow, comparing it to construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway that constructed a railway over wide-open recently conquered...

I think it’s important to note that using a gun to disable a person in psychosis holding a deadly weapon wasn’t the issue in the Sammy Yatim case, it was the officer’s decision to subsequently execute him as he lay on his back, with a second round of shots. If I, a civilian, was cornered in a...

If Metrolinx wasn't such a joke, we'd have the Lakeshore West lines up to modern standards by now, then the "A Line" in Hamilton could get you to the airport from across much of the GTA with just two seats.

Almost the entire 401 right of way is abutted by farmland they'd have to buy from framers lol Such a boneheaded comment by our premier. Any change to the corridor just moves the cone of angry rural people from one area to another, you'll still need to buy up vaste corridors of land to get in...

The one thing fascinating thing I've noticed from the angry people on Facebook ranting about the LRT plans is that a lot of people seem to genuinely like the HSR. Not that Hamilton is some transit-loving paradise, I think many people have a positive nostalgic view of using the bus when they were...

Based on the boomer memes I’ve see on Facebook about oil prices this week, if Alto simply renames to “Alto High Speed Bitumen Pipeline”, apparently huge swathes of rural Canada would have zero problem with their land expropriated and dug up!

You think the people of Madoc view a train they'll never ride as public transportation?

Here comes the CPC attack dogs. Ryan Williams is now stating that Alto will be 300% over budget, citing the Ottawa LRT. I questioned him on Facebook and essentially his argument seems to be that CN is forced to transport too much oil, so if we build a new pipeline to the East coast, CN will be...