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Yes. With private sector projects, the sub contractors know that the delays (and ensuing costs) will drive down the Internal rate or return and that there exists a point where project is no longer viable and hence the project will be cancelled . The subcontractors know that. But on government...

No doubt. I was aware of that. Nobody is advocating a return to the labour conditions of that time. But surely there has to be middle ground somewhere. Is it really a labour issue as to why there is descrepancies between 1885 and today? I dont think so, todays workers would be far more...

It took four years to build the CPR. It went across canada and through the rockies. Other than surveyors maps, little would have been known about much of the terrain in 1881. 140 years later its taking twelve years to build a 25 kms LRT line from Mount Dennis to Kennedy road. Through a...

Thanks for the clarification. I certainly wasnt 100% sure about the exact details surounding the lrt plans. The tolls part i was.

Both the champlain bridge and the Turcot interchange had to be replaced because they had reached the end of their usefull life. The economic studies commissioned by the various levels of govt concluded that it was not economically viable (and maybe not possible) to do the structural maintenance...

Solar energy is also more expensive to produce from what i know. And, its not new. The first solar panels in homes that i ever saw was in europe when i visited in seventies. This tells me that the technology is pretty mature and therefore your are not going to see any economies scale or...

But, from what i understand, they still have a deposit for the order. It doesn't show up on the BBD order book but they stand to lose $$$ if the order is cancelled. On some production lists it shows up under MOU. http://www.abcdlist.nl/cseries/cseries.html

https://www.torontopearson.com/pearson_leftNavOneColumnWF.aspx?pageid=78&id=21474839252# Passenger stats for 2016 are finally out. I dont recall it ever taking this long in the past. The number is 44.3 mill for 2016 which is up a whopping 8%. Other numbers for cnd airports in 2016 Vancouver...

Excuse me. But i live in this area. Do you?

Your cherry picking at examples instead of adressing or listening to the main point (which should be obvious to anyone) that he is trying to make. And that is: that in a vast majority of the areas in the GTA, living without a car is extreemly inconvenient. "Oh no you cant pickup the kids at...

In the end, we can now state that the city council agreed with exactly the same points i made in the first three pages of this thread. Thankfully. The points that Shiner made were exactly the same: 1) the plan to reduce car lanes in each direction from 3 lanes to 2 lane would further clog up...

Perhaps. But given that Emerites has 92 A380's in their fleet, and another 50 on order, chances are that had the federal government granted them more slots, they would still be flying A380's into Pearson. But we dont know. They are going to have 142 of these, the next in rank is Singapore...

The problem is that: the opposition to the Allen expressway (at the time) was not based on practicality, viability, costs, etc. The debate was based of vision for the city.

There is no need to expropriate anything. If you go to the far end of terminal 1 where the lounge and big windows are, you can see a large swath of land that is already excavated and ready (i would assume) for construction. The tarmac space is there, so it looks like all that they need to do...

Emerites, is unique. Much like a few other airliners from the gulf that benefit (directly or indirectly) from petro dollars there is very little financial and equity transparency from these airline companies. They (emerites) are the only ones loading up on A380's like they are candy canes at...

Unless i missed something, i have not seen where this thread has become about highways. Can we not walk and chew gum at the same time and include the need for highway infrastructure into the discussion with public trnsit? A recent report from the CAA came out this week stating that the 401...

Yes, you cannot ignore expressways and there has to be solutions based on pragmatism and common sence. That will invariable involve all forms of transport means. They need to be applied where needed and feasible.

Agreed. I hate to crap the "Big move" initiative because anything was better than the status quo. Overall, its worth everyone's support. But the "Big move" has no plans or projects for the airport area. And specifically, that area i was talking about along eglinton and matheson. And...

What this map is overlooking and missing is that area just south of Pearson (ie.: along Eglinton and Matheson). Thats a HUGE employment area. A few fortune 500's there and a few of the larger employers in canada. I would argue far larger than those areas covered by the "M" on your map...

For a second, i thought that you were referring to Alitalia.