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For $100B (plus another $130B in a short-term loan) we probably could buy both CPKC and CN Rail, move all the Canadian railway corridor to a separate entity, then spin them off again. Charge fees to operate on the Canadian track using something like the airport model, where a non-profit manages...

I've ordered pizza to my VIA train car before. Met the delivery person at the door while passengers were boarding. This seems much more organized.

Or for the very small number of people doing a ~150km bike ride along the Grand River/Hamilton Rail Trail to West Harbour GO. The 11:30 Kitchener arrival time made it difficult for me to get to Hamilton before sunset in August. The extra hour will be really useful.

Indeed. Vancouver, Toronto, and Seattle could all use some regional love. Burnaby, Mississauga, Vaughan, and Bellevue all have significant clusters for a suburb; enough to warrant separate lists. The Toronto and Vancouver pages link to other regional cities, but not the list of skyscrapers in...

Replacement station being installed at Bloor and Ted Rogers Way.

More than that. Montreal, the city, lost 34 million financing deployments to Chicago, NY, and London. They literally bought mind-share and economies of scale making the infrastructure appealing for other cities to buy.

Fear that no extreme candidate would win from that point forward.

This seems very low risk.

It was designed for 12km/h, though I don't know if it ever operated that fast, and a standard walkway is under 3km/h. So yes, it was considerably faster.

Yep, removed in 2020. It was the only fast walkway that TKE sold. Beltways has a prototype of a 16km/h walkway at Cincinnati airport. It's more like a series of short contiguous independent conveyor belts (common in factories) than the single large walkways we're used to. Its big selling point...

I didn't mean to imply it was easy for Porter financially; as you point out they're hamstrung by past decisions like equipment purchases. I just meant the fares they charge at YHM are not actually all that attractive for consumers; not enough for anyone west of Mississauga to go to that airport.

Porters YHM prices don't seem rock bottom; economies of scale are lower but so are their fees. For the handful of April flights I checked, Flair Airlines from Pearson is within $50 for the same dates (sometimes less, sometimes more). Both charge for carry-on baggage.

It helps blind people find the door. The new Line 2 trains will likely have the same feature.

Sleep Country has closed and is boarded up, but not in a way I would expect for demolition. Running Room is closing March 26th. Something changing here but it's not clear what that is. Perhaps building out a sales centre?

TRBOT also argues that mobility is one of the reasons Toronto waterfront has so many visitors, and expects even noisy mobility improvements like Jets and Hovercraft would increase that number. Keep in mind "Waterfront" for their numbers includes CN Tower, Aquarium, Scotiabank Arena, and Skydome...