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    Train Spotting

    Absolutely. Restoring it to working condition would be a real draw, and running excursions north bound or southbound would add to the draw. The challenges of restoring to a working order are large, and fundamentally begin with $. Cosmetically restoring and maintaining it would be a very good...
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    Train Spotting

    In North Bay on business and took a few minutes to visit some childhood memories and check in with an old friend……looking still quietly abandoned, along with some units…. …..from the original Northlander? No change from last year. At least one of these should be on full display in front of of...
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    PM Mark Carney's Canada

    We have been on a proxy war since Feb 22 2022. Putin continues to escalate in Western Europe… Poland, Latvia, Estonia, the Baltic areas. His ambitions are pretty transparent and NATO countries are responding militarily. Emboldened by Trump, his proxy President, we will see how the next 12 months...
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    Mayor Zohran Mamdani's New York City

    This mayoralty, along with the increasing prominence of AOC should prove interesting, even over the next 16 months or so.
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    Oakville Amica Bronte Village | 26.65m | 6s | Succession Development Corporation | MSAi

    It appears that the brick finish in the renders has become slabs of Brown Stucco..at least on the sides of the building. The street front may differ.
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    Oakville 157 Cross Avenue | 203.5m | 61s | Distrikt Group | Teeple Architects

    I would say that 25 years or so ago, there was little demand for housing north of the railway and south of the highway. There is something to be said for retail, retail of that era, and employment lands in general. We all welcomed HD with the demise of Beaver etc. There may be an argument for...
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    GO Transit: Union Station Shed Replacement & Track Upgrades (Zeidler)

    Re the above question. I would also ask if the heritage train shed would be an impediment? I have/ am a staunch supporter of preserving heritage where possible, and supported the preservation of the train shed. However, depending on those answers, it may be time to look at alternate preservation...
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    Oakville 157 Cross Avenue | 203.5m | 61s | Distrikt Group | Teeple Architects

    The Province recently posted the following (and see Link) re their mandated Oakville Midtown TOC (and the associated MZO orders) proposal that the Province has been trying to ram past any opposition. Once again, the town had developed a planning document for the area, which enhanced densities...
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    Highway 401 Transit and Auto Tunnel

    Yes I was, and I apologize for not being more specific. Although rail is making inroads there is much that could be done to be even more competitive, especially in a Toronto West to Montreal / Moncton corridor, as an example. There are larger shares of the freight moving along routes such as...
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    Highway 401 Transit and Auto Tunnel

    It would be interesting for a railway to model container shipments to compete with longhaul trucking routes, using an express service, and modern handling technologies to enhance last mile deliveries. So Toronto West to Montreal, Moncton for instance as an example. This could be done but the...
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    I am not sure any enforcement goes on with HOV. And to think of it, there does not seem to be enforcement of much in the way of driving laws on the 400 series highways. It is very rare to see any OPP, until you get to the eastern portions of the 401 (QC border through Cornwall and beyond) where...
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    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    Perhaps more of an X . One diagonal from Niagara or Branford/Hamilton through TO then onwards to Ottawa. The other from London, perhaps Windsor, through TO and reaching out past the GO lines to Kingston?
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    Highway 401 Transit and Auto Tunnel

    Caught this on CNN tonight. A Norwegian tunnel Project. Makes for interesting reading.. https://www.cnn.com/travel/norway-longest-deepest-underwater-tunnel-spc
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    Oakville 420 South Service Road East | 148.5m | 48s | Rose Corp | Graziani + Corazza

    I don’t know, the more I look at this, the more the negatives pile up, see the above posting. This project really exists in a vacuum, and until we understand how the much larger midtown ‘ debate’ finalizes, it’s really hard to see where or how this fits, if at all. But the ignoring of the GE...
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    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    In Montreal again for,business, but hoping to ride the REM again and catch up on the changes, As a further request, could someone forward the latest report on costing of the Third Link to Doug Ford….. And if the QC trip was two hours from Montreal, and ran multiple times per day, that train...

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