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He was such a non-entity, even those of us who were of voting age when he floated through have mostly forgotten him.

Another, cheaper, scheme is to hive off some services from the west, say UP and Barrie, into a tunnel under Front, from Bathurst to York. This would free up capacity upstairs.

Part of the problem here is not the technology, but rather the culture. Transit managers simply don't care how long it takes riders to get where they are going, and politicians will not direct them to do so. In Ottawa this manifests itself in trains crawling around not very sharp curves for...

There aren't any published maps that cohere with what ALTO is saying in words, and I suspect we won't see anything till the consultations start, unless there is a leak. But it seems like as straight a line as possible between Ottawa and Trois Rivieres with a right angle to downtown Montreal...

The Laval stop isn't for getting from Laval to Montreal. It's for getting from the NW sector of the Montreal area to Quebec City or Ottawa or Toronto, and vice versa. ALTO likely won't offer tickets for the short hop, the way you can't travel downtown from Fallowfield today. And not every...

It's absurd. It follows an extremely abandoned line that was replaced with a country road decades ago, wandering through villages. It's AI slop or a map drawn by an idiot, full of lines and dashes, signifying nothing. (ed. Or a good joke)

Given the ridership, and the numbers traveling between Ontario and Quebec City, I wouldn't think it would be worthwhile. More likely I think would be a transfer in Laval. The consultations include Vankleek Hill and Saint-Eustache, which are roughly along the route I sketched out, but not...

The OC site indicates that the overnight version of bus 105 serves the stop on Tremblay road, by means of a U turn. So you can get to Rideau or the SE transitway every half hour. Granted, not great at all, and maybe they'll improve it some day.

Re Dorval: Agreed. Although ALTO never said they were building a station there, we just assumed they would. On the other hand, ALTO to Gare Centrale then REM to the airport will be about the same time, circa 100 minutes, as the current VIA service. Ottawa Union: It's not a bad location at...

Not sure I agree. Some previous studies did suggest a Montreal-Ottawa route all or partly north of the Ottawa River. And I think bringing on expertise from Europe, and several years of dealings with the existing railways, has prompted another look at leaving existing corridors in operation and...

There actually are potential routes using abandoned and active rail corridors, possibly highways, and fairly empty land. I put up a couple of maps a few weeks ago based on some field work ALTO had done, and I think folks thought I was smoking something. It would seem they have gone the...

Maybe, but they were pretty categorical at Senate that they were not in the freight business, and it's not happening on their rails. So a third freight track? I'm starting to see less and less of Havelock in the cards. There are stretches where following 407 and other corridors would be much...

I would love for someone to design an actual tram loop and stations going through the Wellington/Elgin/Rideau/Sussex intersection(s) and then subject it to a computer model for rail, bus, vehicle, bike, and pedestrian flows. Maybe, just maybe, you could do a one-way counterclockwise loop, but...

Takeaways from the Senate Committee video. (Transcript not yet on line.) Corridor/alignment. Senators mentioned farmland, but a panelist also stressed corridors with existing infrastructure maintained. So highway, hydro, and other industrial corridors are still under active consideration...

I'm listening to the Senate session referred to in that article (I made coffee first :)). One honourable member referred to the McGill Study released last month that looked at public opinion. One interesting chart shows preferences for the location of stations. Toronto was strongest on a...