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Are there any books you'd recommend perhaps?

Do you have earlier information? I've been quite interested in finding more information about road history prior to the number highways. I've found little hints here and there and there are clues in the way our townships were surveyed (referenced by the major road through the area - Durham Road...

For what it's worth, the ICAO methodology adds 50km to the GCD for flights under 550 km, which seems reasonable when reviewing a sample of flights on the route and erring on over-estimating when looking at certain segments. (With favourable weather today, YYZ-YOW is currently very close to the...

English can have its cake and eat it five different ways too.

If it does serve Hespeler, it's a technicality. The former town is well away from downtown Hespeler.

Of course the government has the authority to apply a tax on tolls. They can pretty much tax whatever they like within Canada with some restrictions from treaties (although Canadian law would still always supersede those treaties within Canada). The only question is which level of government...

A mildly interesting exercise is to identify all the five-point intersections in KW. None really exist anymore as the city has adjusted them to only be four-ways, but you can still follow the streets and see where they were. It's also very much a feature of Kitchener and not Waterloo or Cambridge.

It's something that makes sense based on existing physical infrastructure, but not a lot of sense based travel patterns.

Do you have another link, or information about how to access the file? This link seems to give a 404. (I'm guessing it's linked to your session somehow and now expired.)

There are loads of two lane roundabouts and several three lane roundabouts in KW. They seem to function quite well, now, as people become more used to them.

I know this is fantasy, but half of these things are going right through environmentally sensitive land, conservation areas, or over topography that would be extremely impractical to build a highway. Is it really anyone's fantasy to build a highway across Dundas Valley, or through Forks of the...

I was heading home Sunday afternoon from Victoria Park, and the train I boarded was quite full, though not as bad as earlier in the week. The driver announced that the next train would be 10 minutes. Elsewhere someone mentioned that there was a train out-of-service at Conestoga Mall station and...

Municipalities are creatures of the province, but that doesn't mean that the federal government can't negotiate directly with them and bypass the provincial government, at least not yet under the current system. The province is free to change that of course.

It seems to me that the LRT would be part of the highway as it falls between the lateral property lines, but not part of the roadway as LRTs would not constitute vehicular traffic.

I drive that stretch every day and there is significantly less congestion between the 407 and Winston Churchill.

I wonder if a better option would be to run the two unit between the airport and the VIA station with an intermediate stop allowing a connection to the Trillium Line. Basically something more akin to the Union-Pearson Express. Connecting the VIA track to the Trillium Line would probably be...

The existing DLRT line is also being extended in stage 2.

If the RoW put out a RFP with certain requirements, isn't it incumbent on the organizations bidding on the contract to demonstrate that they can meet the requirements? If Presto failed to do that, or didn't bid, I'm pretty sure that disqualifies them from consideration.

Aren't there jurisdictions where the customs officers get on at the stop before the border crossing do the clearing in transit, and then get off at the first stop across the border?

I don't think there's a clear answer how transit should serve the south-east part of Ottawa. The Trillium Line provides needed service to Carleton, but I don't think it's a good idea to make it the trunk service to the south-east. You then would have the west, south-west and south-east parts of...