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The Finch line has exactly one curve of any importance, and the rigs don't have any serious trouble with straightish track. The...

If we all just start calling it Catherine O'Hara Square, will the city perhaps change it to that? I refuse even to type the S word.

That curve is not technically "too tight" for the vehicles as they are designed. It's a lot tighter than any of the curves in Ottawa's...

Is it just me, or does it look a lot like the Cheapening of what ever U of T is pretending to be planning to build where the Planetarium...

I also recall that when the Harbourfront line opened, many joked that LRT meant Loud Rattling Tram :)

I'm having this issue in Vietnam. Access on my phone is fine, but my laptop is blocked. They are on the same network. Very curious...

Recently I found an old slide deck from the aughts positing a 35-minute trip from Jane to Kennedy. Evidently they thought they were...

Like this: I made this crude knock-up 12 years ago and I believe it's posted somewhere in this endless thread. I was not listened to as...

Kind of have to raise a caveat here. Platform screen doors have been costed out at a million dollars a door to retrofit lines 1 and 2 I...

Perhaps, given the name, at least 1% of the materials could have been, you know, blue.

I'm not sure how I feel about the 100% uniformity of materials on the tower portion. Feels like it's missing something.

There is no real need to widen the bridge in the future. It's already five tracks wide. With the OL on the rail embankment, there is...

Correct. Connections to YUL would be useful to people in both Ottawa and Quebec city. Connections to Pearson via HSR are less obvious...

Yes, the existing tunnel to the platforms could be extended, but VIA controls access to it. You could extend it to the eastbound LRT...

There are a number of white bar signals in Ottawa, used for transit priority/queue jump situations. There's one at Albert and Lyon to...