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    Roads: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Highway 410 (MTO, U/C, Planned)

    I think this would be achievable using currently available technologies. The driver support technologies in Toyota vehicles (and I assume other brands as well) do a good job of detecting lane markings and whether there's another vehicle ahead in the lane you are occupying. Doesn't seem like...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    The timetable for adding a second through platform and accessible pedestrian tunnel at Georgetown GO keeps getting pushed back. I think it’s now Fall 2024 - the public IO 2023-03 Market Update doesn’t include it. Metrolinx expropriated several land parcels between Heritage Rd and the Credit...
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    Halton Hills McGibbon on Main | ?m | 10s | Amico | Arcadis

    A backhoe and compactor have arrived on site after utilities were cleared. Hopefully this is the start of building construction.
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    VIA Rail

    I'm skeptical that Hitachi and Siemens would both be in a consortium given that they're rival rolling stock manufactures. The other consortia seem to have investors, designers, constructors, and service operators, but no rolling stock makers. Perhaps they'll have to select this for their...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Timetable 31 indicates that all weekend services on the Kitchener line (Mt Pleasant to Union) are delivered using the two trains stored overnight in the Georgetown layover.
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    Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    Request to pre-qualify to construct the Don Valley Bridge has been issued: https://www.metrolinx.merx.com/public/solicitations/2521565881/abstract?origin=0
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    Transit Fantasy Maps

    Solutions are already available to bridge the CN-owned non-electrified gap on the Kitchener line. Alstom is due to deliver BEMU trains, this year, that will operate an 80km line in battery mode, with charging from catenary...
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    Hoverlink - Toronto to Niagara Hovercraft service starting 2023

    The only commercially available hovercraft with a 180-passenger capacity I can see on the "Interwebs", is the Gryphon Hoverwork BHT 150. https://www.griffonhoverwork.com/products/hovercraft/bht-hovercraft/ Coast Guards of Canada & South Korea operate them. Are there other manufacturers of...
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    Caledon-Vaughan GO Rail Line

    Back in 2014, Vaughan received a development application (DA.14.072) for the triangular parcel between the CPR line, Kipling Ave. & City Park Circle for a 98-unit development with a mid-rise building & town homes. I wonder whether this will acquire density now it's included in the interim...
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    Toronto Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    Please keep in mind that the Premier's Office dictates all of Metrolinx's communications with the public. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2023/04/22/something-really-stinks-here-why-you-still-dont-know-when-the-eglinton-lrt-will-start-running.html Unitl 2019, Metrolinx did a pretty good job of...
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    VIA Rail

    https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/search/?currentJobId=3532595088&keywords=via%20rail&refresh=true Senior Project Manager jobs for the Maintenance Center Renovation project, in Toronto
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    Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)

    Sorry about the image quality the original PDF
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I'm guessing this is the additional train needed to begin weekend services from Mt Pleasant to Union, pre-positioned to the Georgetown Yard. The second consist required will return as Trip 3627 (17:04 Union to Gtown) this evening:
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Bizarrely Halton Hill is part funding the service from Milton Go to Lisgar GO. https://www.haltonhills.ca/en/news/new-halton-hills-transit-service-realized-through-milton-partnership.aspx It serves fewer than 100 households in Halton Hills and doesn't integrate with any service to/from either...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    While I agree it's disconcerting that no work is currently happing at this location, it's a long, linear, project and perhaps the crews are working elsewhere: Taken from...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    RQQ - Request for Qualification & Quote (Formal) for the Design of the New South Platform and Modifications to the Existing South Platform at the Brampton GO Station: https://www.metrolinx.merx.com/public/solicitations/2446875513/abstract?origin=0 It's not clear from the description whether...
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    GTHA Transit Fare Integration

    Good point. A factor to OnExpress & Metrolinx to consider when choosing between through running and terminating services. Faster trains and more express services may encourage people to take jobs in places they couldn't previously reach with a reasonable journey time. For instance...
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    GTHA Transit Fare Integration

    I'd certainly support fare integration, but it would need to be implemented in an equitable way. The TRBoT's approach is overly influenced by the current organization of local transit agencies. The 64km journey from Union to Hamilton would cost $11.70 per journey because it crosses...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    As N Light points out the municipal transit services have been amalgamated into Niagara Region Transit which could offer a hub-spoke bus service out of St. Catherines station serving: St. Catherines and Niagara-on-the-Lake Thorold and Niagara Falls Welland and Port Colbourne

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