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I thought this video was going to be poorly written but found it to be a rather good overview on the state of the TTC and it's future.

This came out to around $5.4 million per year. Factoring in inflation, wage increases and increase in diesel prices - multiplying by 1.4 (40%) seems fair. In that case, the cost would be $7.6 million.

I asked ChatGPT to do the napkin math: Assuming 22 buses are operating on a 25 km route at an average speed of 15 km/h for 16 hours a day, every day of the year, the buses would cover a total of 96,360,000 km annually. If a city bus consumes, on average, 30 liters of diesel per 100 km, then...

Definitely better to overbuild a tunnel though. Better to avoid or prolong instances which would require a shutdown of the tunnel for a substantial period of time. It seems to be quite an expensive undertaking in New York City to rebuild the 1910 tunnel between New Jersey and New York in the...

Drove past this twice today. Looks like they were doing something with the roof of the tall building beside it. That building is 32 stories tall so the crane must've been reaching a height of somewhere around 40 stories. I was quite confused to what I was seeing aha.

This may have been asked or answer before but is there a considerable height difference for the overhead wires between running bilevels and using EMU single level train sets? Would EMU's be able to run on the bilevel overhead wire height or would the wires have to be lowered eventually?

I don't know why I spent time doing this but with an online map maker and some primitive editing I have updated how this might've looked like below. Will leave the rest to imagination. (Metrolinx hire me 😂)

Not sure why they went for the vertical map. They definitely have space for a horizontal line map. Maybe partially showing line 1 and where each end goes towards. Could be something like I have attached below (just a rough draft).

I really liked this book as a kid. Thanks for reminding me of it. 😂

Concrete is louder and less smooth.

Despite never saying that we are ready for attendant-less aircraft, the stakes are much higher in an aircraft than in a train. For example, there is almost no scenario where trains will need to evacuate in water. Plane fights are generally longer on average than the average train ride. For...

I don't necessarily disagree with you on the aspect that it would be a nice have to have someone onboard that could help assist passengers in case of emergencies. However, I do believe that majority of accidents that happen when flying planes occur due to pilot error rather then when an airplane...

The signs background should be Green for GO. I don't know why they are choosing to live in black and white. It should be the transit agencies primary colour at the very least.

Vancouver is also significantly smaller than Toronto in size so it's not the best comparison. Let's just be thankful we faired a lot better than many American cities which were destroyed during the highway era. I understand why you showed Tokyo but just wanted to add the additional perspective...

Highway 401 overpasses don't appeal to me but I'm still glad they exist and they look just as bad or worse than this (for all the congestion on it; it is still necessary.). Anyways, the difference between Tokyo's elevated lines and one single elevated line in downtown Montreal is that elevated...

This seems to be a common thing governments do in North America where they help large private corporations with offsetting private project costs and tax incentives in order to encourage development in the area. Otherwise, it is unlikely that Therme would build their Spa development at Ontario...

Fair enough with the "nothing to do with Doug Ford" point. This is just the first I am hearing of him considering this proposal when I have already been hearing other people proposing moving the Science Centre to Ontario place for months. I also want everyone to keep in mind that regardless of...

I might be wrong but wasn't moving the Ontario Science Centre to Ontario place an idea that has nothing to do with Doug Ford. I read multiple articles ad multiple other people calling for the Science Centre to be moved to Ontario Place after the Therme Spa plan was announced. So I don't really...

You're right. Not sure how that happened. I was referring to this video here. Edit: These signs would be particularly good for GO platforms. Also, at 1:46 the video shows off Japan's 3D hologram information booth, which shows wayfinding info on how to get to different parts of the the...

The solution to union station wayfinding could be more simple if we were willing to go into the 21st century and start putting up proper wayfinding screens that show animations to direct you where to go. It's honestly ridiculous that the union station food court has restaurant stalls with large...