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All those tanks, too. I remember quite a few of them remaining even in the early aughts, when I first began to explore the Portlands...

Likewise. I remember cycling through there in the 80s and 90s and the industrial smell was unique. You can still catch it on a warm...

Check out this 1960s shot of The Hearn with its massive coal pile and multiple stacks before the super stack. Insane by today's...

Grabbed this off the Old Toronto Facebook Page. Look at all the industry down there 60 years ago. Huge change. Look at the Hearn...

This is categorically false. None of the government consultant reports even claim that it was not feasible to keep the building open...

I thought it was 50 too. Unfortunately, 76 metres in 7 seconds is 39 km/h, in 6 seconds is 45.6 km/h. No matter how I time it, front or...

Posted this on Reddit yesterday, the same time as I posted it here. Got quite a bit of attention. It was the #1 post in r/Toronto...

I dunno. What do you define as reliable?

If it's ultra reliable, I'd agree I'd trade some speed for reliability for sure. But it will likely be both slow and unreliable. Much...

Thousands of people jog half marathons.

Wait. Average speed from end to end is 12 - 19 km/h? Oh boy. So someone can jog the whole line faster. That's incredibly slow.

Heck, I even got up to 50 on a bike going down the westbound hill from VP to Sloane.

Hey the train is running after the biggest snowstorm on record. So lets take good news when we see it.

Or... are the cars going 30km/h (Vision Zero) so the train is going 10 km/h (TTC maintenance requirements)?