He ensured that the number of homes needed due to immigration match the number built by the private sector.

Although I recall this chart from Ottawa citizen that shows the wealthy did the best under Chretien/Martin, whereas Harper improved the lot of everyone equally.

Ford strategy is to stay just a little less corrupt than the federal Liberals. This strategy has given Ford a lot of runway to act without fear of being defeated.

Link fixed. It was the CN over 401 in Pickering. I picked a relatively ugly one. There was a half-through girder right beside it. Your description is correct, the self-weight of the deck (a symmetrical load) actually pretensions all the cables naturally. Sometimes they need a little bit...

It's hard to argue this. I didn't think it could get worse than Trudeau but Prime Minister Brookfield is sure giving a run for the money.

The criteria of no work in the water (and no permanent structure in the water) likely came from environmental or hydrology. They probably wanted to improve the hydraulics of the channel by having no piers to obstruct the water (assuming the existing bridge will be replaced during this one's life...

We voted for it, so why expect prosperity.

There are two types of balanced Cantilever design - with precast and with cast-in-place. Typically, they need several miles of bridge before the precast is considered. Also, they prefer to lift the segments from below which requires a bit more access from below - which is harder in a valley...

Thanks, My quick math if this was done in 2012 or so. Eglinton Grade separated to STC = $2B (extra over Eglinton LRT). 8 km elevated extension from STC to Malvern and UTSC = $2B. ($250M/km). 4km B-D extension to Kingston Road. $3B ($750M/km). Total = $7B. what we did. B-D...

I was hoping to have a tunnel there - but I guess it would still be the same effect of not being opened.

I had the B-D line following Eglinton - back when the Eglinton Line was planned to go up to STC (circa 2011). This would have been a 4km extension of B-D, to Kingston (Road, not City), along with a 2km extension of elevated Eglinton Line to Centennial. Then 3km branches to Malvern or UTSC...

I think the same thing happened in Romania and in France. The EU doesn't like a leader and mysteriously they come up with charges against them. Hopefully Hungary can resist the EU authoritarianism.

I guess it's up to Robert Fico to be the voice of reason in Europe. Orban could only do it for so long before the never-ending EU propaganda against him would bear fruit.

First off, it's too embarrassing to close Eglinton from Laird to Kennedy to elevate it. What's done is done and that mistake must be lived with for a while. Maybe at some point in the distant future when there is more of a network (Ontario Line to Seneca, Sheppard Line to Scarborough, etc.)...

It goes back to the Finch West arguement. It was working the way it was designed - but as soon as it opened it was realized that this was not what was wanted. They looked at the data and said that 80% (I'm inventing this) of trips are local, so who cares about overall speed. All that matters...