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Based on my knowledge, I kinda prefer Keanin as someone who's been successful unifying local cons + local libs + local ndp. I prefer a politics-unifier mayor, personally. If you look at his tweets, he's a moderate-progressive style in action speak. (After all, he did kick @fordnation out of...

Yes, that’s correct (in a roundabout way). However, ERTMS is a set of standards for literally 21st century technology, decades ahead of good old fashioned PTC. I find this fantastic news, because we’re leapfrogging far past the USA mainline signalling systems here. ERTMS, if all features are...

Just seeing this now — My condolences. I visit here a tad more infrequent, but I remember the good old days in the middle-2010s and the long threads between myself and George. It’s not the best times of history this decade — and so many families are so stressed. My heart goes out to his family.

As part of the renewal, it was mentioned that the sewers will also be enlarged (possibly provisions for separated sewer for all condo newbuilds along corridor — currently Hamilton is combined). I think the utilities upgrades are well worth it long-term. It was already known by me since 2015...

You’re not thinking the useful perspective: It’s the COST PER MINUTE TIME SAVED :) I think that the costs to save a minute through Georgetown is quite reasonable, compared to the costs to save a minute between Kitchener-London. There are literally over a thousand separate construction...

It seems that most of the mass of building demolitions have now already occured earlier, so the remainder of building demolitions is smaller than the number of buildings demolished already. Instead, the war zone is the construction site to come, and the major bus & car traffic detours needed...

The CATenary does, shockingly so.

Possibly -- but this route is worth starting from an incubation perspective. Facilitating future purchase of the subdivisions for future higher rail speeds. That's the big prize. However, London-Kitchener commute via GO should actually competes okay with peak-period driving, and they should...

The real use case is Londoners with work in KW, or the universities there. KW is an expanding employment centre, even in pandemic. In bad traffic, it already takes more than 1.5 hours, even almost 2 hours to drive during the worst part of peak hour. The GO train would be similiar, except...

I mean. This IS one of my least favourite part of the LRT. The chop down! Making good shade disappear to a summer scorched paved plaza! That’s why I suggest the small battery option for 2km of catenaryless ops. It can recharge on the catenary while on the gp outside downtown. No time lost.

The LRT has been delayed so long, there's some minor tweaks that could be done to the resurrected LRT: Just like technology changed so quickly, that Eglinton Crosstown LRT recently cancelled a peaker gas plant to build the Metrolinx battery farm (article) like a UPS for the Crosstown LRT. A...

No. They currently back the train out. For now, until they extend the track soon. They did this before the pandemic too.

Long term, they are planning to build a much faster track as a track extension to West Harbour. Thus, stopping at West Harbour will actually speed up the trains, given the southern track will be the Metrolinx track. I know that CN and Metrolinx has to work together, but heck, maybe even...

While it is true master plans are aspirational, and things gets added/bumped/removed, I need to lightheartedly scold you on complete dismissal of master plans. They aren’t fantasy maps, but have a purpose. Refurbishments includes change for compatibility. Dozens of overpasses in Metrolinx’s...

There's another Quick Fix solution that they were considering just right before the Pandemic. Unfortunately, we know what happened when March 2020 rolled around. Hopefully it still can get done, now that the brand new all-day West Harbour lights a massive spotlight on this? (Unless there's a...

The Metrolinx 2041 RTP shows 15 minute service to Hamilton downtown, so it is definitely in a Metrolinx master plan. Multiple sources confirm to me that multiple Hamilton stations will eventually get allday 2-way service. Toronto already has multiple, as does various GTHA municipalities such as...

On the Union-Hamilton-Niagara service of the future: I think these extra trainsets are easily justified if they add the through-tracks at West Harbour GO station, to accomodate the extra traffic. Hamilton, a more major city than Oakville and Burlington, is still bypassed by the Niagara...

I was once on a nonstop express GO train between Union to West Harbour that made it in a mere 47 minutes -- an actual special GO train. It was one of those PanAm 2015 Games express trains, that had a 30-minute late departure. It nearly completely made up for that time. I'll never forget that...

In certain cases, trackless tram buses are great as upgrades for existing BRT. Many existing Transitways would be a great fit for similiar travehicles (whether driven or selfdriving) once ridership increases enough. Although LRTs are better for fresh builds, they can be an okay “Right Tool For...

Please allow me to demonstrate the classic flip flop. <throws sandals in the air> ....When the LRT is predictably resurrected in a few years, we’ll be wondering why we’ve dithered for 15 years over it. Not as bad as some Toronto transit lines though, unless you include the 1980s SkyTrain...