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It is federal land which they lease to the non-profit GTAA [Pearson Airport] for $170M/year. GTAA is also a federally controlled organization: that is the federal government could modify the GTAA charter or replace it with another form of authority over airport operations. In short, the feds...

You're right. I blame @UrbanDan as I was updating their counts. Adjusting my post for both is easy enough to do, so I will do so shortly.

6 months later, and several have finished and a small number of starts. 150m Built 150m Under Construction 100m to 150m Built 100m to 150m UC Total per Municipality Toronto 100 25 262 61 448 Mississauga 6 7 31 11 55 Brampton 1 2 3 Burlington 1 1 Milton 1 1...

GTAA would likely be thrilled to work with the province if the province funded those extensions and station structures. While they were reluctant about UP Express, with the thought it might eat into parking charges, they [Air Canada and WestJet executives] have since realized the increased...

They went a little bit past the fence.

They kinda have by omission. Their 10 year Pearson Lift program announced in April, which includes $ billions in terminal and runway upgrades, ignores both the transit component and additional goals of expanded and combined security/customs areas. Plan B, a more incremental approach, has been...

It's possible they ignored the details and just did an end-to-end tuneup of any bike reported having issues. Bikes with one noticeable issue will likely have several more soon, so a full tuneup is probably useful.

Building out some type of court: based on the acrylic and mesh walls, I'd guess Padel?

Minor demolition started (Starbucks fence removal).

I agree that lines are moving well: they've clearly become more efficient or scaled up in some way.

That's a fascinating response. Q1 2024 numbers at Pearson were up over Q1 2023 for both domestic (2.6%) and international (11.8%) passenger counts. CATSA daily data updated to May 6th [multiple airports combined, not just Pearson] also shows most days have higher passenger counts than 2023...

Swiss are introducing an interesting way of doing roadwork without reducing capacity as much. https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/mobile-bridge-swiss-road-repair

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Owen Sound to Toronto flixbus service starting soon. https://www.owensoundsuntimes.com/news/local-news/bus-service-between-owen-sound-and-toronto-to-start-may-30

AFAIK, external lighting is part of the art component: https://www.concordpacific.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CCH-Retail-Brochure.pdf

Hard to tell. The number of events and attendance seems to have recovered but occupancy and revenue are both still down. I guess they're shorter events (afternoon only rather than a full day)? Annual Reports (picked 2018/19 and 2022/23)...

Probably a change from 7 & 8 to platform 4 only, but didn't fully edit platform list.

Indeed. Thank-you for the correction. This was about fire services; I'm more familiar with ambulance.

Siren use, in all Ontario cities, are basically at the discretion of the driver. Their decision to use them is based on traffic levels, seriousness of the call, etc. Toronto at 3am still has traffic at many intersections. Hamilton is much quieter, traffic wise, in the evening. Most emergency...

There are laws to encourage that transition but it's not yet clear the European is fully onboard. A small bout of populism can easily delay the dates if not repeal them entirely...