Recent content by treplow

Fully agree. The REM's closest equivalent in Canada is probably the Canada Line in Vancouver which is 100 percent rapid transit.

Is the Autoroute 50 still one lane in each direction between Mirabel and east of Gatineau, or did they finally twin it? I spent a few months shuttling between the Mt Tremblant area and Ottawa in the fall of 2013 and the single lane A50 was super dodgy to drive then.

Based on the proposals we've seen for the Toronto-Ottawa portion of the ALTO corridor, isn't Peterborough the only real city along the route? If Blairton Station wants to argue for an actual station to be built there, good luck to them I suppose ;)

Montreal - the only city in the world where the sun sets in the north.

The largest airport in the country for passenger volume (and one of the biggest in North America) having only two terminals is kind of ridiculous to begin with.

Same with Moishe's steak in Montreal

An "expensive" $3.69 for a tuna sandwich and $5 for cigarettes (to be consumed only in the designated smoking section of the terminal and plane, presumably) made me snort out my coffee.

I haven't lived in Montreal since my student days in the early/mid 2000s, but from what I recall this depiction of Boul. Rene Levesque is bang on - it's basically an urban freeway running through non descript office towers. A lot of people still seem to have this impression of inner city rail...

A lot of interesting points being raised here about station placement, particularly regarding Kingston and Peterborough. I think the key issue with both locations is striking a balance between accessibility and network efficiency. For Kingston, while it's unfortunate that there's no dedicated...

Not to mention Rome to Milan, Paris to Lyon, Berlin to Frankfurt...

Yeah not likely at all, plus it would be bad for through travel.

With the network being fully electrified that means Ottawa can build a tunnel under the Rideau Canal and repurpose their downtown Union Station for rail travel ;)

Yeah there's no way from Gare Centrale to Laval without using the tunnel, unless the train backs out to Cote St Luc and goes the long way around the mountain. Which would defeat the entire purpose of the high speed network.

Hopefully Vancouver extends the under construction "Broadway subway" to UBC at some point.

Yes the coverage will be decent when all three phases are fully complete. There will still be some major missing areas like Bank St/The Glebe, Carling Ave, Vanier etc. Not to mention Gatineau, one of the largest employment and population centres in the region (I understand the political...