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Cruise CEO Kyle Vogt did an interview. This reddit post gives a summary and includes the link to the interview: One of the big takeaways is that expanding into other cities isn't a significant technological challenge, but rather a challenge from the service and infrastructure side. This...

Do we have any update on the situation with the removed section of Brampton's draft plan for railbanking the OBRY corridor, or is railbanking no longer being considered?

I think this is a deeply underappreciated take in the transit/urbanist space. People like to convince themselves that the tech is a long way off or that it won't be viable in service but this is not productive. The defining feature of autonomous vehicle development in 2022 is that the industry...

Does anyone know the reason why the Northlander was moved to the Bala Sub in 1992? It seems like it was done for no reason at all. The line wasn't abandoned for another 4 years, and moving to the Bala Sub cut the train off from major sources of ridership.

This isn't related to cost recovery, but benefit to cost ratio. Most major transit projects have benefit to cost ratios greater than one. GO electrification is an example. The problem is that the Northlander is something like 0.2-0.3 iirc.

I was reading through the business case for the Northlander, and while there was a lot of good info in there, there is one part which got me concerned. That part is the BCR, specifically that it was well below one. To me, that puts a lot of doubt in my mind whether it is worthwhile to restore...