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To address the original problem: My suggestion would be to raise parking fees and use the revenue for some kind of subsidized seasonal bus service with generous luggage allowances for hauling gear. You'd really eat into the parking/traffic requirements by shifting at least some weekend...

Absolutely this. I think especially with a commuter-oriented system like GO, you have a lot of habitual/daily riders who are fully tied into transit cards and electronic fare, know their stations and routes well, etc., and that perspective can dominate. Occasional riders, especially older...

What kills me is that there is a marked difference between taking Greyhound in the United States and in Canada -- in the US there's an app and reward points system, automated ticket machines, things like that. It feels much more modern. Greyhound Canada felt stuck in the 1980s.

Losing the service desk at Kitchener GO (in 2019) was a bit of a blow - not only is the station there now locked more often than not, but there's simply no way to get Presto card encoding switched to "student" in a city with thousands of students.

So it does exist! I never truly believed it.

You'd hope we'd do better with it than we've done with a national train system...

The part about the flatbeds is a bit surprising to me, seeing the ION vehicles shipped in by rail along the Waterloo Spur made me assume that's how it would be done for all the LRVs, not just the ION.

Glad to see Transport Action Ontario weighing in on this.

After months of effective radio silence on the Northlander from the province, it's not surprising to see hack job studies like this bubble to the surface, which pull magic tricks like taking all of Northern Ontario's population density (1 person/km) as an argument for density being too low to...

It's remarkable to me how HFR could be such a transformative project, with rail service returning to towns that lost it and creating lots of new possibilities (eg tourists travelling from Toronto to Montreal stopping off in Eastern Ontario for a B&B stay for a day or two to explore the area...

Honestly if the feds and province wanted to environmentally put their money where their mouth is, there would be a rule that ministers had to take the train to anywhere that had a station. I wonder how fast we'd see rail travel improve then.

Forgive me for being cynical about a "plan to combat sprawl" when there's still acres of greenfield developments happening in places like Doon and North Waterloo, which are commuter oriented but far away from GO stations. I've spent most of my time far away from downtown and the isolation is...

As a resident in the area, I wish they wouldn't, but it isn't surprising given local politics (and politicians) and the unwillingness of a lot of people to oppose highway development. The Region of Waterloo is putting in work to finally improve transit, walking and cycling on Victoria Street...

Smart. This looks manageably short and should be a good feeder for the Barrie line.

Any bets on this one? https://www.kitchenertoday.com/local-news/local-mpps-set-to-make-highway-7-announcement-2563724

For example, the ION project had its share of issues that local observers were aware of, but which were rarely discussed in the anti-LRT local media because it was genuinely too clueless to pay attention aside from churning out variations of the same op ed complaining about LRT "stealing road...

The fact that this is yet another crash on Ottawa (clearly the fault of the driver of course) makes me sympathize with the TriTAG people saying 10 years ago that there should have just been double tracking on Borden and the road closed to traffic, rather than having one set of tracks on Borden...

While it's nowhere near Ottawa-tier, there's been a few persistent issues with the signals which are probably a contributing factor. Last fall regional council also decided not to pressure for 8 minute headways right away as there haven't been significant post-launch crowding issues. The issue...

I like this solution as it addresses a number of concerns myself and others had around potential expropriation and demolition of the heritage houses along Kent and Northumberland by avoiding widening. These streets are both residential and should be fine as one ways. This crossing is one of the...

Encouraging, but there's a lot of room for weaseling in the "Milton corridor" phraseology. I guess we'll have to see.