Recent content by MisterF

I find it funny that people refer to a rental project as a condo.

Even in 30-50 years I don't see it happening for hydrogen. A big part of reducing costs is scale. Hydrogen lacks that completely and isn't going to have it for personal transportation in the foreseeable future. Batteries have scale in spades, with millions of EVs now being produced every year...

The fact that they need to put up signs telling people what each signal is for shows that the HTA is badly in need of amending. It's visual clutter and it's never safe to force drivers to read when they don't have to. There are better ways of doing this and our own legislation shouldn't be...

A cinnamon bun shop designed by Kramer. "Levels."

As with the other east-west lines, a significant percentage of riders will be going towards downtown. So the Ontario Line, Stouffville Line, and Kitchener/UP Express will go a long way towards alleviating capacity concerns on Eglinton.

The at-grade portion would be useful to expand the Stouffville line further, even if that's not needed in the near future. A third track would enable express trains. The extra capacity could also be used by HFR if it ever happens and uses that route.

You may be under the mistaken impression that municipal boundaries have anything to do with numbered mass transit lines.

Two cyclists enter. One cyclist leaves.

The downplaying of our population is largely a consequence of us being next to the US and the resulting national inferiority complex. But we're closer to the European powers than people tend to think. We have the same population as Poland (with a lot more money) and close to 2/3 the population...

Worries about increased congestion and emergency response times have no basis in reality. Bike lanes and road diets generally don't make traffic worse. People tend to think of traffic as a fixed number of cars that need to get through a space. But it doesn't work that way. The way we design our...

I don't think it's a given that HFR will skip downtown Montreal in favour of a suburban station. I recall that the Alstom proposal showed the line going downtown and doubling back to go around the mountain on the way to Quebec. I'm not as familiar with Montreal as some of you but it seems like...

Anyone who thinks that Russia would stop trying to conquer the rest of Ukraine if the West gave them the occupied territories is hopelessly naive.

Yeah that's pretty much it. If you have higher speeds then you can carry more people with fewer trains. Sure you could add more trains to a slower line, that will cost extra.

You can add vehicles when the trains are going faster too. All else being equal, speed does increase capacity.