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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    Drum is spot on. Transit Priority in Toronto is the single largest issue, and if implemented, would save time on all at grade lines, regardless of whether the top speed exceeds 60 kmh or not.
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    I look forward to a sketch and then any explanation as to why either of CPKC or CN would want to buy into this? And some overview of how the port will be serviced? Perhaps VIA and EXo might want to consider building or augmenting to the existing trackage to improve services?
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    Nuclear Energy and Ontario

    Thank you.This is VERY interesting. From an ag perspective, apparently Ontario scores well down the list of provinces to work with, but regardless, this changes thinking on ‘traditional’ solar arrays. Very interesting indeed.
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    Nuclear Energy and Ontario

    Do you mind telling us (me) a bit more about ‘bifacial vertical mounted solar’? The information re Australia is also very interesting. Are there any specific reasons for this success?
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    Streetscapes from Elsewhere - Design Inspirations for Toronto

    Having been to Poland, I would completely agree with you, in regards to the country on a whole, for the most part. But compare with Dresden (for instance), which remains a city with challenges. In any industrialized city you can and will find areas that leave something to be desired, and there...
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    QEW - Mississauga/Credit River Project

    I was on the east bound QEW today for the first time in a while. The eastbound approaches to the last rebuilt section of the Mississauga Road Bridge are being graded and repaved. The East bound approaches to the older section of the Credit River Bridge are a beehive of activity, with staging...
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    Streetscapes from Elsewhere - Design Inspirations for Toronto

    Marcus Gee posted an article in the Globe and Mail entitled “
Europe’s urban advantage leaves Canada in the shade”. It’s an opinion piece again. Although comparing Toronto to any other city is never an apples to apples comparison, there are certainly questions that can be asked, and we often ask...
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    General railway discussions

    I’ll post this here as I am not sure we have an Amtrak Canada thread. At breakfast in Montreal this morning I was told the Amtrak has cancelled the Adirondack for a month or so. Apparently it will run into upstate NY and stop. No one seemed to have any ready details as to why or how long. Or the...
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    LCBO / The Beer Store

    I need to work on my sense of humour, it’s obviously not working.
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    Inspiration From Montreal

    Not sure if this is inspiration or not….Montreal Fire Fighters struggle to move an illegally parked Amazon Van so they can get out of the station and get to the call. The driver, when he shows, could care less and flips them the bird….good show Amazon.
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    LCBO / The Beer Store

    Back to the LCBO model of my childhood. FIll out the slip of paper with the name and registration number from the long displays of product, hand over to the LCBO employee who retrieves the product from behind a counter, slips it into the brown paper bag, hands over the bag and you slink out into...
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    Get your news and magazines for free through Press Reader and the TPL

    Other library systems in the GTA also make use of this very good app, and the list of titles is large and diverse, encouraging long bouts of physical inactivity while reading, when productivity is called for!
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    The Coming Disruption of Transport

    Several organizations within Canada and the USA (and Internationally) have been documenting truck driver shortages currently and projected. Wage issues seem harder to document - there have been changes in the USA re overtime, and Canadian reports continue to document the struggles to retain...
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    The Coming Disruption of Transport

    With respect, the post is not about personal transport on a transit sense. Moving freight by truck is a complex business where lack of drivers, low wages, issues with training and safety, and railways lack of interest in a market literally at their front door, provides impetus for technologies...
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    General railway discussions

    You are very correct, and I did not incorporate that into my blurb. And your last point is very valid as I will attest to. I presume this is mainly a federal issue of program, financial and regulatory leadership and the provinces will play poor (or opt out) as they see fit. It is just an...

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