Recent content by afransen

He sounds more like Hitler with each passing day.

The 401 widening through Mississauga was a gong show that took the better part of a decade.

Spending a lot of money on transit is not the same thing as achieving results, unfortunately.

Don't forget they have high fuel taxes, as well.

And watching the painfully slow and difficult utility relocations and trackbed construction on Hurontario, I find it very hard to believe that a largely precast guideway installation would have been much costlier. The stations would cost more, but frankly in low density suburbs, these stations...

Skip the tunnel in Brampton and just do a short cut and cover stretch with an underground station at Brampton GO only. Save a billion dollars or two.

And it's not like Hurontario isn't very wide and not exactly an aesthetic masterpiece to be tarnished with a SkyTrain like line. And even the pushbox around Port Credit could have been avoided...

They really will need to go through and scrub every mention of him except for a small memorial to this dark time in American history.

I don't think demonization of masculinity and indifference to the worsening outcomes for boys/young men has helped. It pushed disaffected boys and men toward these kinds of charlatans.

It was always thus, but with a lot of influencers (such as comedians with big internet audiences) fawning over Trump last year as low info disaffected voters, many of them are now distancing themselves and starting to be critical of Trump and Trumpism. Some, like the 'All In' podcast...

I think the rightward tilt in Canada's younger population is cultural influence from the US, particularly on social media. As those policies are discredited view Trump's incompetence, the social media influence will subside, and many people will pretend they never supported this brand of...

The growth is due to new contributions, mostly, not growth due to investment, I would imagine.

Imagine if we developed highways the way we have been developing rapid transit projects the last couple of years. Shut down MTO, create a dysfunctional Metrolinx-esque organization with a few hundred VPs and run by warring consultants, I'm pretty sure we would see highway projects become a...

Why? Starlink and eventual competitors will make satellite internet ubiquitous before Alto is realized.

If this is what P3s deliver (absolutely no cost discipline and no 'state capacity' to learn from and deliver projects over time), I have to question if they make sense. Paige Saunders just made a documentary for CBC about Alto that seems relevant.