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Glad to see some sense from the media about Highway 413 and the 401-407-413 situation in general.

I feel like people who uphold the lack of bus bays act like the people who want more bus bays are trying to have a 1970s downtown bus terminal. It's not that proponents want every bus rerouted to the station, it's that GRT buses, including an iXpress, will be stopping on-street rather than at...

Better to wait forever, then. The Metrolinx approach of slowly electrifying shorter regional lines seems like the obvious approach that gets the ball rolling. We can slowly push electrification to places like Kitchener and fully electrify the high-traffic commuter lines while GO shifts toward an...

I would complain about them taking a long time to finally do this, but I don't blame them given they were able to cash in on grants to make it better. Stuff like the heated shelters and covered bike parking will really be necessary to make this an improved/parallel experience to the usual custom...

This is one of the reasons why I think moves like the intercommunity bus routes in SWO are so important. A lot of them are clearly meant in part to be connectors for Via service, and especially outside of metropoles there really needs to be deliberate effort to set up these feeders and raise...

I think this is a good point, and as well we should consider how much the "group everything together into a megaproject that can be given a name" has become the name of the game with infrastructure politics in Ontario. Politicians love opening stations and new lines, after all. It's obviously a...

To add to this point, station amenities at most Canadian stations are pretty poor. It's understandable at GO stations, where most of them are basically giant shelters in the middle of a parking lot, but there's a paradoxical situation where GO stations are steadily improving in terms of...

While I'm glad these LRT projects are happening, it's unfortunate the street redesigns are happening at a time when it's not very politically possible to shrink bloated 4 lane arterials down to something more reasonable. First we have to get out of the mindset of "traffic will always increase"...

First you'd have to break the consensus even a lot of public transit fans seem to have, that regional cities don't deserve better transit.

I used to be a daily early-morning commuter on GRT and I can safely say that if the ION had been around then, it would have made a big difference. The system has massively improved in the past few years, but (for example) I used to have to take the 7 (a local) rather than the 200 iXpress because...

What would be the logistics of ONR operating it though? To use any of their existing equipment they'd need to use other railways' tracks, either the OVR or ACR/CN. I think the only really substantive claims made is something about new Transport Canada regulations around crossings, but I've...

The assumption is often that if you are travelling, it must be to Toronto. Unfortunately this thinking also pervades a lot of planning.

I think this really needs to happen regardless, and some companies that have gone the "corporate social responsibility" route could probably be convinced of it with the right incentives. Otherwise they're just externalizing the costs onto society and the environment.

I think there's a place for guys like Gormick. When he's actually putting forward a positive case, he's quite measured and reasonable, like with his "high performance rail" plan as an alternative to HSR that would serve smaller communities and save on infrastructure costs. His frustration is...

I like this survey, though I wish there was some option for people to give input in terms of not being from either Toronto or the corridor to Cochrane, but what restored train travel would mean for their willingness to move there. I'm originally from near the Sudbury area and have passed through...

I feel like this works because Paddington is Paddington and Penn Station is Penn Station. There's a lot more "brand recognition" than for Tremblay. However, overall I would agree. For an intercity operator, the logical naming convention would be "[Metro location]" followed by the locality or...

I'm not perfectly current, but my understanding is that the plan is finalized with the Region and just needs to be funded. However the Region seems mostly focused lately on funding for other projects. The Northfield bus garage was a big one for them because that will let GRT finally get artics...

Beats me. You'd need the park management to cooperate and probably a sympathetic transit operator to hire to run it. I doubt the people running the park would do anything that might cut down on the number of people who go.

If I recall correctly, there was discussion about an on-call subsidized taxi service, mostly to support the reserves.

This is perhaps beyond the scope of your work, but if rail and bus are both being included, perhaps you could consider the ferry between Tobermory and Manitoulin.