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A station in Smiths Falls (or anywhere else along the line) wouldn't add 10 minutes. It would add zero minutes because most trains wouldn't stop there.

Devinci is a Canadian company so it's cool to see them have success with so many bikeshare systems. Here's what they say about it on their website:

One thing I've been hearing more in recent years from immigrants or when I travel to other countries is surprise at how bad the homelessness and mental illness problems are in Canada. I've heard this from people ranging from the UK to South Africa to Chile. Canadians like to paint the issue as...

And the legislation that tried to remove the lanes was struck down in the courts. At least so far. There still hasn't been a ruling on the appeal AFAIK.

Sounds like a reliable caretaker of Iran's enriched uranium to me. "We'll take the uranium back now" "What uranium?"

I don't know, I frequently see the HOV lanes experiencing the same traffic congestion as the other lanes off peak, including on weekends. Seems like opening them up to other traffic will just make that worse.

Premier carbrain strikes again. JFC. All Ontario drivers will be able to use HOV lanes in off-peak hours: transportation minister

True enough! And it's a lot easier for highways and conventional rail to follow each other because the speeds are a lot more compatible.

High speed rail lines do go next to highways quite often, but it's only for short distances because of the geometry issues others have mentioned. Highway curves are much sharper than on a high speed railway.

Does anyone know if the cycle tracks on Sheppard are still going to be extended through this area or is that project a victim of Bill 60?

A white elephant in the making after Alto opens.

That sounds like the kind of scope creep that would wildly inflate costs and get the whole project cancelled.

I love how rural residents are so concerned about how a new rail line will impact wildlife and nature but aren't bothered in the slightest about the network of roads and highways they use every day that does so much more damage than a railway ever could. Or that by reducing reliance on driving...

I don't think the T was ever meant to be a rapid transit designation since they use it for bus stops too. It could have been an effective rapid transit designation but they've diluted it to the point where it's meaningless. This doesn't replicate the Underground branding strategy. The fact that...

If capacity is a problem, the solution is to build more lines. Not to spend billions on shutting a line down for years to convert it to something else. There's a lot of relief built into the design of the Line 5. Lines that go directly downtown from Eglinton act as relief lines of sorts at four...