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It's absurd. It follows an extremely abandoned line that was replaced with a country road decades ago, wandering through villages. It's AI slop or a map drawn by an idiot, full of lines and dashes, signifying nothing. (ed. Or a good joke)

Given the ridership, and the numbers traveling between Ontario and Quebec City, I wouldn't think it would be worthwhile. More likely I think would be a transfer in Laval. The consultations include Vankleek Hill and Saint-Eustache, which are roughly along the route I sketched out, but not...

The OC site indicates that the overnight version of bus 105 serves the stop on Tremblay road, by means of a U turn. So you can get to Rideau or the SE transitway every half hour. Granted, not great at all, and maybe they'll improve it some day.

Re Dorval: Agreed. Although ALTO never said they were building a station there, we just assumed they would. On the other hand, ALTO to Gare Centrale then REM to the airport will be about the same time, circa 100 minutes, as the current VIA service. Ottawa Union: It's not a bad location at...

Not sure I agree. Some previous studies did suggest a Montreal-Ottawa route all or partly north of the Ottawa River. And I think bringing on expertise from Europe, and several years of dealings with the existing railways, has prompted another look at leaving existing corridors in operation and...

There actually are potential routes using abandoned and active rail corridors, possibly highways, and fairly empty land. I put up a couple of maps a few weeks ago based on some field work ALTO had done, and I think folks thought I was smoking something. It would seem they have gone the...

Maybe, but they were pretty categorical at Senate that they were not in the freight business, and it's not happening on their rails. So a third freight track? I'm starting to see less and less of Havelock in the cards. There are stretches where following 407 and other corridors would be much...

I would love for someone to design an actual tram loop and stations going through the Wellington/Elgin/Rideau/Sussex intersection(s) and then subject it to a computer model for rail, bus, vehicle, bike, and pedestrian flows. Maybe, just maybe, you could do a one-way counterclockwise loop, but...

Takeaways from the Senate Committee video. (Transcript not yet on line.) Corridor/alignment. Senators mentioned farmland, but a panelist also stressed corridors with existing infrastructure maintained. So highway, hydro, and other industrial corridors are still under active consideration...

I'm listening to the Senate session referred to in that article (I made coffee first :)). One honourable member referred to the McGill Study released last month that looked at public opinion. One interesting chart shows preferences for the location of stations. Toronto was strongest on a...

I agree Wellington is a poor choice. I don't think any decision has been announced. The city likes Sparks, and NCC likes Wellington. One costs a lot, the other is a poor transportation choice. So are there other alternatives? There seems to be an embargo on imagination, except that the...

You'd need to build a giant structure over Corktown Common. Not going to happen I think. I'm not sure how many minutes a 3 km deep tunnel buys. Not enough to justify the cost I think. Besides, arriving in a city and seeing the central core is kind of a nice experience.

A few people are not going to conform to the quickest theoretical trip scenario, especially when they experience the very long transfers at Yonge and Osgoode. I lived in Hong Kong and frequently took the tram or double decker just to enjoy the view and avoid the crush of the subway.

It seems as though they are debating turning UP into either a frequent segregated line with more stops, or even a branch of the Ontario Line. Either could work. Then the GO line could have fewer stops in the city.

I always thought cutting an arch through the silos would be fun, since it's unlikely any meticulously preserved and fetishized Toronto silo will actually be repurposed for anything.

Another yellowing clipping....

Here we go again: Heritage = what I consider pretty.

Here's some more mappy speculation. Notice below two parallel lines of dots from Toronto to Peterborough, and then the dots that are north of a straight line between Peterborough and Ottawa. Then take in the dots quite to the south of Ottawa. This is evidence they actually got out on the land...

That's exactly the route I was suggesting in the first map I put in. I think VIA bought it decades ago and then sold it just before it started to seem useful again. It's the shortest route between Ottawa and Montreal, has mostly curves of 2 or 3 km radius, and not many constraints around it...

You don't go through Gatineau or the Senate. Although some earlier studies proposed using what are now O Train tracks and across into Gatineau, that would entail a new station at what is now Bayview and scores of grade separations. I think the door is closed. I'm talking about a route as...