Recent content by innsertnamehere

we both know it's not.

I don't want to know about how much they cost. No wonder this line has such a ridiculous cost.. Watching it get built, Metrolinx is going for ridiculously expensive custom solutions for basically everything.

service has been constrained by the lack of bus storage for years now, HSR has been limited to off-peak service improvements only. The new garage will allow for more buses and peak hour improvements. I think the decline of ridership in the 1990's has more to do with declining employment levels...

this plus the gardiner lane closures at Park Lawn are supposed to be ending this spring.. rejoice!

Hamilton mountain has some of the best transit coverage of any suburban area in the 905. Stoney Creek, Ancaster, and Waterdown are more typical for the 905 though with very poor coverage and uptake, but those are also the areas of Hamilton with the highest incomes and the highest rates of...

non-revenue flights like that do actually happen ocassionally - Hamilton is Billy Bishop's emergency detour airport and Porter actually lands passengers there semi-regularly (like if they miss the airport closure time at night or in inclement weather). Those flights would have to get shuttled...

The odd thing to me is that this has been cut to absolute bare bones while Exhibition plows ahead as the grandest transit station in the City. Delivery costs on all of Metrolinx's projects have all become verifiably insane though, and I feel like you can see it in the construction processes...

Shift Transit is the contracted operator but the City absolutely owns the brand and overall system. It's part of the Toronto Parking Authority. The City could absolutely license it's network system, fare structure, and branding to other municipalities. Same with the TPA "Green P" brand for that...

Vranich may move quickly but you don't need SPA to demolish, no. Council made changes to demolition rules lately following the collapse of the Gore Park buildings which is leading to a tonne of demolitions across the City which were previously prohibited.

Oh, you mean the same City that is still trying to put pavers on John Street 17 years after it started? Or the one that has been building a simple valley trail in the Don Valley for 13 years? Or the one that perpetually lets it's best, highest traffic parks look like trampled gravel pits...

They haven't even filed their site plan application here yet, don't get too excited.

What CDPQ has pulled off in Montreal with REM makes me slightly more hopeful that ALTO might actually be possible. What they have done there is the exact opposite of Metrolinx's machinations.. and most of that team is moving to Alto as REM wraps up. If Metrolinx was in charge of ALTO I would...

I think we'd have to be fair and compare coverage too - a $100b 401 tunnel is going to be a lot longer than the Sheppard subway extension. The $100b cost comes from building a tunnel from Milton to Pickering basically. I think this is unlikely and that the tunnel will likely be proposed at less...

Anyone know what end to end times are around now then? I assume a few minutes faster?

Hamilton definitely averages worse than Toronto but I think Unwin takes the prize over any road I've seen in Hamilton.