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Alright, here is what I don't get. After spending billions on the Pan-Am games, and bragging how great and memorable it was, we pass up the opportunity to host the bigger world event called the Summer Olympics, citing that hosting another one time event will be a waste of money that would be...

I don't think that Bernie isn't too much of a change, rather more than an eventual course correction that is long over due in American political landscape. Since the red scare of the 50's, the term "socialist" or socialist ideals like health care for all, fair pay are no longer destructive as...

Speak of Sheppard Subway. Mark Towhey said in an interview with Steve Paikin that an announcement of expanding the Sheppard Subway with the province was planned under Rob Ford, but when everything started hitting the fan it was cancelled.

I'm talking more from an accounting standpoint than artistic standpoint, adding additional colours into the design would mean additional costs to the architect, so the went more for an basic design. Come to think of it, isn't black an mixture of three colours? Cyan, magenta and yellow, not a...

Black and white are the basic of colours, and grey is a mix between the two, add on top the buildings themselves aren't unique architectures and a blind person could see they cheeped out on an architect for bare basic modern pre-fab buildings with some public art stuck in between.

If there is an referendum, it would likely be a ballot question in the 2018 election, and if it passes, ranked ballots won't appear until the next election in 2022. So, we'll have to wait another four years (six if you count from today) before we ever see ranked ballots.

The costs of the LED lights can very depending on if you want a warmer colour (yellow) or cooler colour (white), plus the luminous output. 100W incandescent equivalent would cost more than a 60W or 50W incandescent equivalent.

I'm still mystified what rolling stock they'll be using, but I came across a post from a December 2014 post by Steve Munro who quoted the SmartTrack plan referring to what it would or might look like. They might have changed it since he posted it, but I'll take Steve's post as authoritative on...

That would be sensible, but a change of government on the provincial level and that can all go away in one swoop, a PC government could take away Toronto's limited taxation power in one sitting because of their "cut-tax" mantra. Even old Hudak is proposing an provincial wide Uber regulation that...

This idea has been tossed around before, but its been usually killed off with the half-true argument that you need two-thirds of the provinces with 5o% of the population in support, something that will never happen in the breakup of Ontario. Although there are other ways, the major road block...

Just a wild guess. But we'll probably have a few new provinces as a result of a Trump presidency. :rolleyes:

That when it was just Dashveyor. Bedix bought the rights to the technology and tried to sell it afterwards, hence the name Bendix-Dashveyor, but legally I found them to go under just Bedix before it was taken over by Honeywell in 1983. Bedix is still around as a subsidiary, but any mention of...

Its kind of an interesting concept, reading into more, from what I understand its an RER and HSR services all roll into one. So its Smart Track, GO RER than can also take you to Montreal all with one rail car and maglev design.

Found this over on Reddit; turns out that we weren't the first place they where planning to build a test track, according to a blog post on the magnovate site, they where planning to build a 1km test track on the University of Alberta land and a smaller test site in San Jose, California. The...

Seeing that we haven't been able to follow timelines for transit planning for a number of years, I doubt that SmartTrack or GO RER will be completed on time or before the next political distribution in two years time. :rolleyes: Has to be for an HSR since maglevs are more suited for HSR. I'm...

As BBC News reported; very few Americans have been named in the leak, and although that could change, it was said that they pretty much have tax havens within the U.S. like Delaware that basically does the same as a Cayman Island bank in hiding money. In Canada, no one really famous has popped...

Anyways, looking at the proposal, its going to take about 4 years before it will open since new track will have to be built and the old track bed that needs to be modified to handle the maglev trains.

A free $25 million maglev isn't something they do out of generosity, And I doubt they're willing to part with that money for a simple test track unless they had a buyer who is willing to build such a system. So the question is, who are they trying to sell this to if everyone is happy into buying...

When I was looking into the history of the Zoo's original "monorail" from Bendix-Dashveyor; the system itself was proof of concept to sell the province the technology of choice for GO-Urban/GO-ALRT project back in the day. I wonder if this is in part design to influence the technology of choice...

Kind of, lack of maintenance didn't help and the fact that the system (that wasn't a monorail) was not only one of of kind, but the company who built it when out of business by 1983, being taken over by Honeywell who isn't in the transit business. So by 1994, replacement parts where hard to come...