Recent content by zang

Technically, part of my family is Irish. That side spent several generations in Courtmatrix. But as with all things it's complicated, as they were Irish Palatinates. So, they fled Germany (and the frequent attacks by France) to somewhere safer. They often married within their own culture, kept a...

While Jordan (Corruptario) sometimes gets some things right, he's extremely conspiratorial, and often forgets Hanlon's Razor "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." And sometimes he goes to some *really* wacky ends to explain things.

I mean, it only took what, nearly 15 years for us to get subway voice announcements of connecting lines at Union and other stations.

…and companies like Air Canada moved a lot of their operations out of Quebec after the political climate caused another exodus. =

More likely, the lack of maintenance (due to chronic underfunding of the TTC) has led to problems that are exacerbated by weight, like erosion under track beds, etc. and a driver (who isn't an engineer) doesn't understand the difference..

It's hard. WheelTrans and cabs are often a transportation lifeline for the disabled, which means both streets and sidewalks have to be cleaned in addition to actual stopping locations and curbside entries. So you're dealing with cleaning at three different machine scales–truck plows for streets...

That's not to mention DoGE cuts to FAA make anything coming out of that agency from 2025 onwards highly suspect of lack of due diligence and expertise.

Yeah, lets certify aircraft that have been certified in their home country with safety exemptions all because another country says we should.

Wanna bet $5 Brian Lilley will be there though?

But it was Malton Airport up until 1984, and there wasn't much confusion that it served Toronto. And people still know you can get to NYC from Newark airport.

Makes sense to me; Dorval is the city it's in. The airport was (originally) named after the location, and to get to the airport requires a shuttle. If the trains stopped somewhere with direct access to it might make sense to rename it Trudeau.

My guess is more about the potential for causing costly damage if the CSA tries to restart an escalator that has stopped due to mechanical reasons (debris blockage, for instance). That doesn't mean the CSAs couldn't be trained to triage potential problems (or that escalators couldn't be...

It's funny you argue so deeply about nitpicking when you've made post after post about absolutely pedantic stuff here. Adjustments could have been made to the Eglinton to have it run more like the Yamanote or any other above ground rail with street crossings that runs with any level of...

Why? Japan runs far more above ground than they do below ground, and it's arguably one of the fastest, most efficient systems in the world (despite multiple service operators). The Yamanote Line in runs with as little as a 2 minute headway, has street level crossings and is one of the busiest in...

Because we need to really stop with the belief that cars (and not people) use the roads, and that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few (or the one).