Recent content by MisterF

I wouldn't compare the two. The Wynne plan for HSR to London (which was 250 km/h as I recall) was a lot more modest than the Ford tunnel and would have been a fraction of the cost at $11 billion. If the HFR line to Quebec actually goes ahead it's pretty likely that a future phase will be some...

Most road tunnels are built out of geographic necessity. They cross mountains or waterways or city cores. The 401 corridor has none of these things. Not to mention that there are no road tunnels of this length anywhere in the world. Not even close. The idea of decking the 401 has been mentioned...

The difference has been explained to you before. CP gets a decrepit, barely usable rail line upgraded and modernized so it clearly benefits from an arrangement that would hand over control to a passenger rail operator. That's a clear and fundamental difference from the CN mainline that Via...

Yes that's why I said "as much as possible". While the HFR route does appear to leave some areas subject to freight sharing, those areas are vastly reduced and that should lead to a significant improvement to scheduling and reliability. But we still don't have a winning bidder or detailed plans...

This actually lines up pretty well with my experience of Rome. While it has a good regional rail network the metro is underdeveloped. It has virtually no cycling infrastructure, narrow sidewalks in a lot of places, and cars are squeezed into every spare inch of space.

The VIA Fast route brings us right back to the main problem that HFR was created to fix: dealing with non-cooperative freight railways that the federal government refuses to stand up to. If CN and CP aren't interested in fundamentally reshaping their core operations then Via Fast is a non...

Italy has similar car ownership as Canada too, IIRC. That just goes to show that even though car ownership is brought up a lot in these kinds of discussions, it's a pretty poor metric for determining car dependence, transit or cycling usage, or walkability. In a healthy city people who own cars...

Under the Liberals there was funding and/or construction for a lot of major projects, including Eglinton, Vaughan extension, Scarborough extension, GO expansion early work, Sheppard LRT, etc. The DRL may not have been funded but it had a lot of momentum and detailed planning work, including for...

Arguably. But it's also true that most of the transit projects under Ford have been continuations or variations of those started before he was elected, such as GO expansion, the Ontario Line, and the Crosstown for example. While I'll give credit to Ford for not cancelling them, I also give...

This guy cracks me up with his "studies". 🤣 Their jobs. You can bike effectively in the winter when bike paths are separated from traffic and they're ploughed after it snows. If subarctic Finns can bike effectively in the winter than so can Canadians in a relatively temperate city like...

You were talking about Kipling. Islington is not one street over from Kipling. A bike lane on one street is useless to someone trying to get to work on the other. What do you base your prediction of zero use on, one of your so called studies?

Industrial areas can and should be made safe to get around on a bike.