Recent content by ShonTron

Funny how there’s no big view of Flemingdon Park Station. (I wonder why?)

Mobilinx has completed only 45% of the track work so far. That part was supposed to be finished by fall 2024. Last year, the P3 consortium’s credit rating was downgraded (again) to BBB-, the lowest rating before it’s considered junk. The more this project fails, the less bitter I am about the...

My pipe dream for Ottawa is to see Line 4 continue along the Southeast Transitway from South Keys to Billings Bridge, then head north on Bank Street in a tunnel to Parliament or Lyon Station with underground stops at Lansdowne Park, Glebe, Gladstone, and Somerset. That way Ottawa finally gets...

I seriously doubt there were any plans for streetcars to operate into Castle Frank. The TTC was well into its streetcar abandonment phase in the 1960s and so would not have seen the need to continue the Parliament streetcar after 1966. With the 1966 and 1968 closures, it was able to get rid of...

Wrote up my thoughts to mark the one-week anniversary of the public opening of Line 5. I got to ride it a few times - including a complete westbound and eastbound trip on Tuesday - and completely took it in before adding my opinion to the mix. Despite some important problems - bunching and...

Yeah, the Heritage Road layover is making good progress. That’s essential before work can be done to end the slow zone through Georgetown (with the yard there being transformed into a proper through station) and I imagine the CN-GO grade separation will follow as well. I hope that work is...

The truck ferry is limited to hazardous goods movement and is set to end when the Gordie Howe Bridge opens.

I think this discussion is getting towards silly territory. Does Line 2 not qualify then because the trains crawl into Kipling and Kennedy terminals?

The Trillium is a digital publication geared to politicians, QP journalists, lobby groups, political insiders, and the like and is not geared for general audiences like newspapers. Sometimes they do publish articles free to the public (and can be very informative!) and often partner with...

Oh yeah. I drove across the Ambassador Bridge once in 2024 thinking it’d be my last drive across the Morouns’ bridge. (I was right, but for other reasons.) The ramps on the Canada-bound side are designed to get you through their duty free shop and their duty free gas bar. Those were the real...

The only flyunder I would have liked to see would have been Victoria Park–Eglinton Square–Pharmacy, with a below-grade stop with stairs and elevators on both the VP and Eg Square sides. Would have avoided three lights and simplified traffic operations. Otherwise the on-street operation in...

Though the governor who pushed this bridge construction through was a Republican.

Line 5 got its first major disruption this morning! Signal issue between Mount Dennis and Cedarvale, shuttle buses dispatched.

Why are the same few people still complaining about the same thing? I'm not saying you have to like it (I'm not crazy about it). But you don't have to keep spamming this thread with the same tired messages.

Who does he think he is? Hazel McCallion?