What's the profit incentive to create streets views for a private right of way with no commercial assets? Sounds like a colossal pain in the ass for all parties just to satisfy a small minority of curious people. The general public is free to create Photo Spheres and submit them to Google Maps...

One thing I'm looking forward to is the redesign of the Bayfront entrance at Bay and Strachan. I'm a very confident cyclist (you'll spot me biking up the escarpment from your neighborhood to the Juravinski 365 days a year!) but I always feel anxious approaching that 4 way stop sign, as people...

Pie in the sky thinking here: this is where the "A Line" LRT was supposed to go through on day, that councillor (now MP) Danko was pushing for, yet we now will barely be able to get a bus through it. I'm convinced this exact same behaviour will happen with the B-line: we'll gimp the thing by...

Hey Chris! I was curious, are there any quick wins you think Hamilton should do immediately that the city hasn't committed to?

What I find fascinating about the discussion among the NIMBY groups is that they'll push alternatives like this, which will require the purchasing of many more businesses and homes as the current propose ALTO route. It truly is a Not in MY Backyard situation, they don't care that it would...

At the risk of sounding like a grouch, is anyone else thinking the new intersection design at Wilson/James is going to become a big future headache? James St is one of the busiest transit corridors in the city, which will only become more critical with the future plans to turn the West Harbour...

Honestly I hope they just make the A line a gold-rated BRT. The escarpment is going to be a major engineering challenge and the mountain are massive NIMBY's when it comes to density, so I think it's a bit naive to think that culture is going to change anytime soon to make a rail mass transit...

I think Wendover largely missed one of the biggest issues with CAHSR: the thing was desperately rushed to try to snag the Obama administration's grants. There's no time pressure for ALTO in this regard. If the consultation phase gets pushed back, it would be obviously disappointing, but it...

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...