My guess is provincial interference. Metrolinx is too valuable as a vote-buying resource to let any other large financiers in on the action.

A worthwhile watch, Copenhagen turns an operating profit despite running 24/7 service (low labour costs due to driverless trains):

I appreciate your detailed and well thought out posts. However, I don't agree that Russia is one ratchet away from disintegration USSR...

The increasingly likely outcome will be a repeat of the Afghanistan quagmire where the Soviet loss cascaded into the end of the USSR. A...

Putin’s only slightly positive way out is to freeze the conflict along the current lines. That way he could sell it as a victory (though...

Wrong thread, but part of the issue is that these stations don't have forced air circulation so its hard to dry up moisture.

With the DEBRT at 56 mil/km and LBRT at 40 mil/km, if this can be built at that cost and at a quicker time schedule, it will be...

I think this is why we need more high speed rail in the corridor. 30 minutes to the airport, 1 hour before your flight departs, 1:15...

For sure - and note the lack of any fencing. Even GO tries harder. As somebody mentioned in the article, a fast train in a heavily...

This speaks how having regular passenger rail service throughout Canada would likely be easing the cost of living. Take fuel costs out...

A roads project, sorta, for the GO Construction thread. On the agenda of the next meeting of SCC is the reconstruction of the...

That 2030 completion date kinda took my breath away, considering that this project places constraints on LSE and Stouffville service...

Thanks for the summary, it was very helpful and informative! I drove by the west side of Aurora the other day and from what I could see...

If the late 2030 completion date comes with three tracks in the LSE corridor being in service then that is a reasonable trade off to me...

As @Metroscapes uncovered last year, the land was sold in 2012 for an incompetently small sum of $145K. Whether that was Ana personally...