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While UPX will gain additional stops in the interim -- I believe the long term goal would be multiple service plans, with express and allstop plans, with 4 true semiexpresses to pearson. GO Expansion and electrification would make it possible. Then Weston would not have any problems being...

The Canadian was actually on-time 84% of the time a decade ago? That's not fantasyland? TIL.

Yes, it's usually not cheap to fly in Canada -- But we now finally have a RyanAir-like airline called Swoop in Canada. I was able to see some $69 fare sales to fly between Toronto and Vancouver. Or those $29 Vancouver-Edmonton airfares (that pair was sometimes $19 last year). I think I saw a...

So more fuel for the fire. Whee! While TTC has clarified their rules, it's not consistent across all agencies. York Region Transit asks you tap again for your 2 hour timed transfer. Now, to stir this fare-evasion pot some more, You remember Kyle Ashley, a local bicycle activist... He...

TTC corrected themselves, deleting that original incorrect tweet. If it happens to me -- then I'll be totally happy to resolve in court over it if a fare inspector contradicts what TTC said earlier. Just by being stuck on a slightly slower transit vehicle between stops means that this rule...

With the platform / trackbed reworking going on over the last few years... it’s still downright leaky, getting better, but still. York, in the 2015 PanAm rush, certainly bungled it — exasperated sigh at the wasted wear&tear — but it was at least the right decision to hold off fixing...

They definitely have to "errata" it, I heard they'll begin doing that that after being more finished with Bay. I heard the platform trackbed waterproofing/sealing is being done more rigorously at Bay concourse than York concourse. I'm more displeased at the untouched state of the cielings...

I'm definitely more a fan of battery trains. One can proceed with the RER baseline plan, and the battery trains provide a solution for hopping catenary gaps such as Brampton, Hamilton, and possibly Bowmanville. Enough overhead catenary will be available that trains will never have to stop...

The team (in large part assisted by Ryan McGreal) have been doing a great job at hamiltonlightrail.ca and tweeting from @HamOntLightTrail ...leaked documents show cost overrun is only 2% A highly recommended follow. With the leaked documents on the internally-already-approved ~$3.7...

Fair counterpoints. You don't need the complexity of 3D rendering for pure AI, and can design a chip that focuses on cherrypicking GPU's neural performance benefits, and optimizing it in a more simple way. That said, while simpler than an NVIDIA GPU in terms of architecture -- it...

The other side of "context is important" is that this is a very advanced neural-GPU much more complex than an Intel and AMD processor. Tesla was using an NVIDIA GPU but they've now created an in-house AI-optimized chip similar to a very advanced GPU, but without the graphics. And there's now a...

<Side topic> The lithium batteries that will be a big part of our transportation lives sooner than expected (thanks to Crosstown LRT, upcoming buses/semitrailer trucks, etc, even if you never buy a BEV). One concern I have about the lithium battery economy scale up is it's going to be a...

Nikkei Business Publications -- a well known japanese financial publishing organization -- did a recent teardown of a Tesla Model 3 and they found electronics were 6 years ahead of a Japanse automaker (Toyota) and an European automaker (Volkswagen)...

Your ride should ideally be to mass transit -- e.g. your nearest rapid transit station. Ideally, that's what your autonomous ride hail will cheaply do for you in a mid-21st-century suburb. Governments do need to build rapid transit close enough however, which is indeed a concern. You might...

There are both good and bad scenarios. That's one bad congestion-increasing scenario I'm concerned about, too. Government regulation may need to play a role on encouraging favourable outcomes (fewer vehicles satisfying larger percentage of population) -- whether simple things such as...

I have ridden 5 scooter cities in 3 countries. It's convenient, if well-managed. It's easy to find a scooter nearby, and they are rebalanced regularly. However, it is indeed chaotic when not well-managed. I do not believe it is a mandatory criteria to have scooter docks, I welcome the...

Toronto's enforcement will have to either be more proactive, or tolerance for scooter mess will have to be higher, or they will have to go to an alternate solution. Moscow decided to solve their charging / scootermess problem with e-scooter docks: source: How to rent an electric city...

@crs1026 Please re-read my post, I made edits of some accidental errors before you made your post. I doublechecked my math, and had already made corrections. Once rereading, please update your post (as my 30 feet error only peristed briefly).

Triangle calculator gives 729 feet and 2 degree slope gives you 25 feet vertical elevation. That's enough for a truss rail overpass with room for OCS underneath. GO electrification minimum clearance is 5946mm (19.5 feet) if you custom build it with the right materials, plate, etc. (source)...

Zero stopped charging time is needed. Full charges (within common SoC range) are gentle and doable if approximately 50%+ of a route has catenary, for on-the-fly charging. No need to stop train to recharge. It is possible by 2030s that future battery-backed trains may be what extends GO EMUs...