Recent content by dowlingm

Almost here:

Being able to bury Bremner under a new stadium might reopen the possibility of running a streetcar into Union from that direction. I thought about Ontario Place but that makes for a very high pressure transportation situation if BMO has an event (or the Ex is on)

Would almost certainly be the basis of the City being able to save face and say "look what we got in exchange" edit to specify - and only between Spadina and the Metro Convention crossing at most

Have been thinking about this since I first went to the Galway Arms in late 2003. They are gonna wait until there is 30 storeys lining the entire goddamn length from Royal York to Sherway, and the Queensway bus is nose to tail like on Eglinton, and then think "huh, maybe it is time to massively...

Hope the Siam Square folks open somewhere else - they had decent food. Nothing on their FB since covid.

Being stuck in UK due COVID turned out to be somewhat convenient! Need the job, guvnor, gotta pay the bills, sorry NY/NJ it's been fun etc.

Where was the CN-CP connecting track supposed to go?

if you think flying in Canada is cheap you have never taken a Ryanair flight.

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The reason “we” pick? I suspect VIA has many different customer strata for the same reason it has several economy and business ticker types

It did come in on a train. I suspect that for some reason, presumably O-Train related, it was more convenient to truck to a freight yard than to arrange a freight run to fetch from NRC?

Stop being so precious. Plenty of people care about this issue. What we haven’t figured out is what it will take for those in authority to care.

If people want a forward seat then VIA should provide the option to specify the seat in advance as an up sell, as the airlines do. Additional fare income and earlier booking: win win!

I saw some reference to the massive increase in ticket issuance on Twitter this morning... but isn’t that about when all door boarding on streetcars began, before which there wasn’t much enforcement because there was a reliance on people being ashamed to pass the operator without paying? The...

Interesting that he says he’s staying in NYC. Some NJ folks on Twitter want him to come fix their system.