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That's because the same factors are at play all around the world; some jobs benefit from increasing scale and technology and some don't. Think of a software engineer for example. It takes the same amount of time to write code for a program used by 100 or 1 million or 1 billion users, and so the...

I must have a spidey sense for when I'm quoted in a post... The "ticky-tacky" brackets are due to the Ontario surtax which is the cause of the rapid escalation of marginal tax rates at that income level. To me it seems "steeply progressive" and unfair that the marginal rate jumps from 31.1% at...

TTCriders is a joke; a group of social justice warriors masquerading as transit advocates. People are too quick to condemn UPX as a failure, and overestimate the awareness level of the general population. It takes time for new travel options to percolate through organizations and social...

Keep raising the base fare... more incentive for me to ride my bike to work or drive on weekends. Or maybe it's time to get serious about distance and time based fares. In London (UK) single zone fares are as low as £1.50 off-peak but a zone 1-3 peak fare (core and inner suburbs) would be more...

Time for distance, zone or mode based fares. It's absurd to ask someone to pay $3.00 for a single off-peak 5-15 minute trip on a bus or streetcar.

AoD, do you actually drive on a regular basis? From your comments I get the feeling that you don't actually understand how people drive. Check out the concept of "muscle memory" and understand that most drivers are not actively thinking about the act of driving when they're behind the wheel. You...

So, anyway... if I were to try to ride on Richmond tomorrow morning what would the situation be like?

As per the recent Toronto Life survey of commuters at Kennedy station re: the SSE, it is apparent that the average person in Toronto is functionally innumerate and does not comprehend the numbers that are thrown around for these projects. It doesn't help when you have a provincial government...

You may not have noticed it before the games but there are always a relatively high number of South American young people floating around the city. They come on exchange programs or to study English over the summer. This article refers to a year-round program but obviously people tend to get out...

I know what you mean - from a practical perspective it's way too difficult - but it would be so much easier (and more profitable) to build eight of these at once rather than just one. If they can sell each duplex for a combined $2.2MM they should be able to turn a profit fairly easily.

Thanks AoD. While it is sort of ugly in a "modernist on the cheap" way, it's hardly a blight on the landscape. It's a pity that someone didn't buy up all of those houses on the east side and build an entire row of stacked townhouses. Those pseudo second empire semis are generally tiny and have...

Is there a pic of the "vertical duplex" from the front? It looks like they rebuilt half a semi which is a little bizarre. I would be pretty annoyed if my neighbour built a three storey black box that looked like that!

It's pretty dumb - "Züm" should be pronounced with the "u" as a front vowel, sort of like "Zewhm". Brampton Transit basically copied the "metal umlaut" of hair metal bands like Mötley Crüe because they thought it was cool.

Or people could just continue to use the Porter shuttle that departs across the road from Union Station and does not require a TTC fare... It looks like I will get to use the new tunnel at the end of August for a work trip. I would have preferred to fly AC out of YYZ but their pricing was more...

Let's get this straight - the only outrage is coming from people like AoD and the guy who wrote that moronic Vice article. Before the article there were a grand total of 22,000 people in THE ENTIRE WORLD who took the bold step of signing an online petition - that's some outrage... NOT. Most...

In case you haven't noticed, Toronto is already considered to be one of the best places in the world to live. We're in the midst of a seemingly endless construction boom that has resulted in a huge economic boost but also very high labour costs in the construction industry. We don't need the...

Geographically speaking Caledon is relatively large - 688 square kilometres - and makes up around 55% of the land area of Peel region. Population-wise it's on par with Dufferin County. Most of Caledon's land is part of the Greenbelt, Oak Ridges Moraine or is otherwise protected from development...

The Gardiner was nearly empty and 427 and 401 WB were far lighter than usual, as it seems that most people got the message to avoid downtown at all costs. We didn't even get to benefit from the HOV lanes as traffic was flowing at 20km/h over the limit anyway. It looks like inbound traffic was...

The whole point is that we're trying to satisfy the three person requirement to use the HOV lanes while minimizing backtracking. My wife won't get a break from the cops just because I happen to be on transit at the exact same time... anyway we'll figure it out.

I initially suggested a northern subway station but she didn't like the idea as it involves more driving on her part. We'll likely be heading up Airport Road anyway (I should have been more specific) and the best way to get there is normally Gardiner/427.