Recent content by jeicow

Half the Councillors who voted for public operations (Francis, Jackson and Clark) want to kill the LRT project. Matthew Green played the same game back in 2017, which staff attributed to an 8 month delay to get the pre-qual out to market. The project may have been already under construction of...

2024 work will largely be the relocation of utilities/pipelines owned by private organizations (e.g. Bell, Union Gas, etc.) that can do it at this time. A couple of projects were completed as part of the former iteration. These are generally “enabling works” and for some, are often overlooked...

Eglinton Connects was a planning study with no basis in reality. The concepts developed through it assumed that the Official Plan ROW width would be available across the full corridor. While that would be fine if it were a greenfield area or a road in the 905 built in the last forty years where...

That’s not entirely accurate. The 800 m BRT/Emergency vehicle tunnel wouldn’t have required the demolition of any buildings on Richmond Row, though it would have let automobiles at-grade. It was the underpass option, which would have eliminated the grade crossing (both BRT and automobiles)...

To clarify, they did have quorum. It was a mistake that the Chair thought they didn’t.

It’s worth noting that the fleet will only go up to 900 bikes as it’s limited to the number of controllers. Most of the bikes will be used to replace poor condition bikes in the fleet and for spare parts.

My biggest fear is that the Twitter trolls that have emerged again will continue attacking any Councillor who’s not 100% committed and waving their flag for LRT. Two of the previous pro-LRT councillors from Stoney Creek flipped after very personal attacks related to LRT and bikeshare,, and one...

It was formally proposed as part of the Rapid Ready fleet strategy in 2013, and since then the City has procured land, undertaken an EA, completed (or nearly completed) detailed design, have funds allocated in the municipal capital budget and DC background study, have applied for $190 million in...

Hamilton finished the EA and detailed design for their second garage last year, and has submitted funding through ICIP. They also finished an EA for the main access road to make it two way and address other issues.

At a minimum the line needs to get to Longwood in order to connect the maintenance facility. Once you get towards Queen, you’re dealing with the older subsurface utilities that haven’t been significantly touched since the 50s. I’d be shocked if you could even afford a Longwood to Queen line...

Should just do the targeted grade separations at major intersections that Metrolinx and the City studied. City staff shot the idea down because it’d be too expensive but now...

I think the bigger issue is that, based on the Business Case, they'll be cutting rush hour service to Hamilton GO from 4 trains in the morning to 2 (and I assume the same in the PM). That's a kick in the stomach for supporting the development of mobility hubs in the GTHA.

Have you looked at the project website at all?!?!? The entire point of this project is to extend it to at least the Airport Corporate Centre (to meet the goals of SmartTrack) and to study how to take it into the Airport to connect with their Regional Transportation Centre. The original EA ended...

Why not just take a casino shuttle if you’re heading to the Falls? Usually ends up being cheaper and faster, and if you have a PAC then you can get it either free or under $10.

^ Yep - the third tower is already u/c on the NE corner of the site at Robinson and Park.