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How are the basement floors represented in Braille? I imagine there might be an issue with blind people clicking the wrong button because they accidentally missed the '-' symbol/equivalent.

There is something I want clarified, does the loss in credit rating directly apply to the consortium members, or is it just the consortium itself that gets hit with it?

Part of me doesn't want to bring these up since I don't want them to be replaced, but there are many other incorrect signs on the 407. In particular, the directional indicator signs on off ramps often show the pre-download highway logos. Example:

The funny thing is (at least from my recollection) one of the reasons they cited to not make this an Eglinton Line extension is because they wanted to save costs by not burying Lawrence/Kingston/Morningside Station, which they allegedly would have to do with a 3 car train (idk why, the road...

Don't forget that Parliament doesn't want wires so the tram would have to be a battery hybrid.

Pretty sure they both use 750V. The big difference is signalling, the Citadis Spirits on Line 6 are not equipped with the ability to interact with Line 5's CBTC and would have to be retrofitted.

This is giving them too much credit - you're implying that they have some sort of long term planning and vision for Montreal proper. PSO was cancelled, PSE is a complete bastardization of REM B that frankly shouldn't be built, South Shore REM was cancelled with nothing in its place, Exo is...

Gentle reminder that for as bad as Transit Development is in Ontario, we're still leagues ahead pretty much anywhere else on the continent (besides maybe CDMX).

I like to fall back to the weakest link argument. To draw a comparison with highways, there's a reason why the 115 isn't called the 415 or numbered as a 400 series highway, despite most of it being built to 400 series standards. Its because that last 40% south of the Highway 35 interchange is a...

Except that's exactly what happened to Spadina. It was only built in the 90s, it was marketed as the "Harbourfront LRT", it was listed on the subway map as a "Subway Line" with a distinct orange colour and specially demarkated stations, then after about a year of operations it was demoted to a...

Except its called Line 5, and is listed alongside the other Subway lines, not the streetcar lines. Yes Line 5 is better than Line 6 in this regard because it has that subway section, but the point still stands. If they're going to pretend its a subway line, then its completely fair to judge it...

Proper signal priority doesn't make a tram run at metro level speeds, nowhere in the world I can think of where that's the case unless it's in the stroadiest of stroads where it's basically a heavy rail line anyways. Most on street tram routes cap out at 25km/h average even with strong signal...

I feel like this is being unfair to Lastman. The NDP under Rae split the Sheppard Line into 2 phases with the first phase only going to VP due to lack of funds, and Sheppard was going to be cut entirely under Harris if it wasn't for Lastman's constant lobbying to build it out to at least Don...

Wasn't there an issue with there being a massive gas mainline directly under Eglinton that nobody wanted to touch with a 10ft pole?

There isn't cell service for Freedom Mobile, Rogers and Telus work fine though.