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It's true that rural opposition currently has a real head-scratcher tone these days. CBC Ottawa interviewed someone this week who called $1000 compensation for walking onto a farm for a few hours to do a survey and count gophers insulting and peanuts. We're continually told farmers are all...

I put in an edit. The Flexity line was originally Bombardier of course, but is now owned by Alstom. It all does lend itself to confusion. According to the good folk at Wikipedia, "In 2024, several versions of the Flexity family were retroactively rebranded by Alstom into its own Citadis...

I don't know anything about the Philadelphia system so I wasted nearly an hour trying to find out online. And you can't. It's still in the design phase. But judging from the illustrations you can find, and some bits of info here and there, it seems to be a shrunken version of the Citadis...

Had we been presented with a spiderweb map of potential ROWs (it surely exists, we just can't see it), the cries we are hearing would be Blindsided! Blindsided! No consultation is ever going to please everyone where property is involved.

As far as I can tell the new showy arch spans the parkway and river all in one go. The old railway bridge doesn't need an arch because it's a series of spans.

The problem with talking about tunneling is that Ontario can no longer imagine doing it affordably. Instead of basic stations that are quick and easy to build and use, like Queen's Quay, they must be vast spaces with mezzanines that take several minutes to use and render the line useless for...

Gee, I've lived in a mostly 15 minute neighborhood for decades. I'm shocked to find I imagined it all. I'm waking up in the shower in the burbs!

While I'm largely in favour of the HSR plan, I'm also bothered by the occult process by which HFR morphed into it. We were never allowed to see any of the proposals, routines, or costings. For years we were told HFR would deliver 2/3 of the benefit at 1/3 of the cost. Where did that math go...

They can call it ALTA.

I'm pleasantly surprised. Transit First after only 22 years. But does anyone else think this is a quid pro quo for jets at Billy Bishop? Ford is inserting his jets and runway expansion into the waterfront. The streetcar extension is just political lube.

I think I said this before but interestingly, each door is about the same length as a base model Rolls-Royce, but only a foot wide, yet costing 3 times as much as the car. For a fraction of the material and simple technology that literally only does one thing. This is part of the conspiracy...

Although they are saying 7. Whether that's futureproofing or reducing wear I don't know. But the time difference between 250 and 300 over that distance is not huge, allowing for acceleration and deceleration. I think the critical matter for time is to run at full tilt between Ottawa and...

I have been looking at that graph too for a few months. Of course I have absolutely no technical training and expertise, but it leads me to think that portions of 407 and 15 could be used between Peterborough and Scarborough with only modest modifications to put together a route with about a 3...

This combines my previous sarcastic suggestion for the Ontario Line extension via tunnel with Doug's Dream for an off-shore convention centre. While I don't think it's remotely a good idea, a voice in my head says if we saw it proposed for somewhere in Asia, someone would think it was...

Of course the genius of Thug's scheme is obvious. The dirt from the 401 tunnel is dumped offshore building Ford Island. And it solves the problem of where the Ontario Line should go next.