I believe there are 2 options. Rehab or Expansion. So if a pavement/road base is completely rebuilt, or is a bridge is completely replaced with a larger one (wider shoulders, speed change lane, etc.), then it comes out of rehab. If a new highway is built. Or if new lanes are added to an...

I wanted a tunnel maybe 100m closer to the river. This requires a bridge of about 80m length. Also, a bridge needs to clear the highway by 5.5m, along with girders and deck that are 1.2m depth. So, the walkway surface is 6.7m above the highway. OADA requires ramps with 8% slopes, as well as...

Although the original plan had this ending at Bloor - so extending it to Eglinton was in itself a great opportunity seized. Edit: Perhaps I should have said "previous plan"

It seems glaringly obvoius that there should be a freeway-to-freeway connection. (I tried to create the full plan below). 401 EB to Brock Road NB & SB - take connection road. Before 1 roundabout, now 1 roundabout. Brock Road NB to 401 WB - take roundabout and loop ramp. It's almost same...

I quickly searched Natural Disasters in the America's this century. Haiti 2021 EQ. No significant Response. Puerto Rico 2017, Hurricane Maria. No significant response. Haiti 2010 EQ. Canada responded. USA, 2005, Hurricane Katrina. Canada responded. Looks like Canada's new position...

Because it's essentially a bridge. Ontari0 (MTO) has a lot of experience building bridges. Presumably mulitple qualified contractors mean reasonable costs. Deep tunneling has no local experience meaning they have difficulty making contracts, contractors have difficulty constructing, and...

I think most (all?) Eglinton stations are cut-and-cover as well. Not only are deep TBM caused stations more expensive and time consuming to construct, they also make ventilation more difficult (as well as passenger access/egress).

Turn the "cover/canopy" into parkland and develop adjacent parkland (office/residential towers) to pay for it.

Cut-and-cover was done in the 1950's and 1960's. Toronto has a big problem with 100 year old pipes needing replacement. 1950's and 60's subway construction temporarily supported those pipes. So requiring relocation of underground infrastructure is not really the reason some think it is, since...

Horwath would have won, or finished second to Hudak, had she brought the Wynne gov't down as soon as Wynne was voted Liberal leader. Instead she let Wynne gain momentum for a year before the election happened. And Hudak was not a charismatic person, so I think Horwath was the likely winner in...

In Toronto LRT vs subway became a Left-Right issue, and since Toronto is a left wing city, we got on-street LRT with close stop spacing. Probably interfering with cars was viewed as a positive - even if it meant that cars interfere with transit as well.

It is always interesting to recall that the 1990's NDP gov't felt that not only should this stretch be underground, but it was also the higher priority than going to Yonge.

The best thing the Unions could do is make it easier to fire staff, but make it harder to reduce the workforce number. Nobody benefits from a lazy or incompetent worker, least of all the fellow union worker who has to work harder to pick up slack. But likely a good deal of Union effort goes...

I thought I saw workers around the bridge expansion joints on the Toronto Bound lanes (old bridge). Are those being replaced? It was rehabbed not that long ago, so I imagine the rest may not have any patching to do.

Is it any different than their "Nation Building" bill. Basically, everything is illegal (pipelines, tankers, emissions), but if the Cabinet approves it they will over-ride all the laws. There are no criteria published that need to be met, just that cabinet thinks is nation building (or some...