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And there you have it. If it gets votes in a dicey riding, then you can just imagine the wheels turning. Same with Doug. Short sited visions, firmly rooted in the election cycle.

Perhaps peaches was not the best analogy, the point being the steady nibbling away of production lands In terms of harvest, the number of farms and averages has steadily decreased in the two main areas of production in Canada - Ontario (the larger %) and B.C. Production (yield) is dependent...

If we are talking of people driving from Kanata to Pickering to catch a flight? then the reasoning behind a Pickering Airport is more flawed then I thought. It’s a 45 minute drive from Pickering to that not nearly at capacity Pearson International. What earthly reason would anyone be...

I just checked into my hotel on the Old Town/Old Port area of Montreal and drove by the construction on Rue Saint Antoine. This appears to be a serious project that does not do away with the car, but moves it correctly down the hierarchy of importance related to the human on foot or on a cycle...

Nope. With respect, you should take a second look. Chicago is surrounded by many older and smaller communities that have been taken over in the post WWII boom. And many of these older communities feature some interesting smaller town vibes, walkability, transit connections, even bike trails...

A younger generation. 10 & 5 was Cooksville, and as a kid I went along with my grandfather to look at some cattle he was dickering on, a farm south of Brampton fronting on 10. Hurontario? Everyone wondered what the 'sam dickens' you were talking about? Rural Presbyterian upbringing. So old...

Hanging out in the rural areas east of Montreal and this caught my eye this morning, some views on transit from Montreal.. https://cultmtl.com/2024/11/quebec-to-cut-montreal-commuter-rail-lines-by-over-50-another-backward-move-by-the-caq/

I disagree.Regardless of what FIFA in their political wisdom thinks, CPL will not approach the consistent quality of MLS, and CPL players will move along as they gain scouted attention, as they do now. The overall records of the matches played between the two leagues will depend on the quality...

If Martha’s Landing ever reopens (basically across the street on the Lakeside) they are absolutely going to regain their position as a bonanza cash generating entertainment facility.

Not the right thread for this discussion, but yes. Where you are dealing with Class 1 and 2 farmland, then yes, solar farms are the incorrect use of this land. And that certainly is the Sarina area, and most of Ontario west of Oshawa and south of Georgian Bay ( some generalities there, but...

And from this angle, looks like a standalone unit. One day we’ll see the same view at night, or with the suns rays, it should be striking.

From Exhibition Station.

Well that is quite a change. I’m not familiar with the planning for the stretch, but would additional redevelopments of this magnitude be supportable? And when would the TTC streetcar lines then be made grade separated from the rest of the street to enhance transit flow, along with the...

I like the idea of replacing surface parking with vertical parking and transforming the surface into housing and connecting transit facilities. Mimico was an imperfect example. (Which has crashed and burned and will remain so for some time I think), Port Credit has minimal parking , but a...

Further to what Paul wrote about would be illustrated by the CPKC Final Spike tour to Mexico City and back by ‘The Empress’ - 76 days in duration. CPKC documents it here: https://www.cpkcr.com/en/community/final-spike-steam-train

You did not. It popped up in another conversation. On another unrelated note, a friend told me that CPKC is pretty pleased to date with their hydrogen loco program. Whatever our thoughts are about the utility of hydrogen in the long term, exploring the technology is exciting and useful.

I had to drive to Lindsay today (commuter service by rail to Lindsay seems to have ended....some time ago) and I ended up on the 407 for a long chunk of the commute. And I was thinking of the 407 rail bypass. The number of overpasses, underpasses that would need to be constructed, the amount of...

Well you are correct. An engineering friend of mine suggested that the Harry Potter Bus might have to be acquired to fulfill the proposal. I should have dropped this in the fantasy thread! It is a shame, though, that the subway extension does not have two or three more stops. The O-Bahn...

With the tracks out, could this not be retrofitted to be useful as a busway, similar to the O-Bahn in Adelaide Australia. The O-Bahn is an elevated guided busway handling over 30,000 commuters daily. And although numbers are not directly comparable, the line handles 30,000 plus commuters per...

Crane up sometime in the past week?