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.

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?

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.

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?

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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!

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...

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...

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...

An email arrived today from an industry group - the number of road motor vehicles in Canada continues to edge higher - now well over 26 million with light vehicles making up over 90 %of that figure. I do not beleive those numbers have changed dramatically over the past years as we edge out of...

On my last trip into the states, I was at a meeting where a couple of members of our group responsible for some facilities in Texas were advocating heavily that we needed to get involved in autonomous transport. I was not directly involved in the conversation, but was listening heavily, as I...

Try the South Side or Rockford for comparison. Napierville is 75% white and Asian in makeup and has an impressive tax base to draw on. It reminds me of some other more midwestern small cities where investment in infrastructure is impressive and reflects strong tax bases as well.

There was an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail today, an opinion piece by Alex Bozikovic, re the planning to date re the Developement of Villiers Island. The piece was critical of the process and results so far…..
“A plan for Villiers Island, located in the Port Lands just east of downtown...

I was in Burlington this morning, early enough for the fog to be still quite thick, and took a couple of photos of Burlington’s ugliest building…..and actually, it doesn’t look half bad in these atmospheric conditions. Perhaps the installation of a permanent ‘fogging’ system will help mitigate...