[Allandale25]

Also, if the province and the federal government are presented with a real, viable plan that CPKC has signed off on, I think it will be harder for them to say no to funding it. Everyone in Mississauga knows Doug Ford promised better Milton line service in the last election. If Doug Ford said no to implementing a Metrolinx study, the city of Mississauga and Bonnie Crombie will hammer him with it until he agrees.

They'll also have another promotional opportunity if they wrap this into the new/updated Regional Transportation Plan that I think will come out this year (but who knows).

 

[sixrings]

Also, if the province and the federal government are presented with a real, viable plan that CPKC has signed off on, I think it will be harder for them to say no to funding it. Everyone in Mississauga knows Doug Ford promised better Milton line service in the last election. If Doug Ford said no to implementing a Metrolinx study, the city of Mississauga and Bonnie Crombie will hammer him with it until he agrees.

Ford won a landslide. I don't believe he is concerned about the few people in these areas who will remember he failed yet alone Bonnie Crombie...

I am also going to guess if the current PM stumbles at all Ford will be the one with his name on the PC leadership position.

 

[felix123]

Ford won a landslide. I don't believe he is concerned about the few people in these areas who will remember he failed yet alone Bonnie Crombie...

I am also going to guess if the current PM stumbles at all Ford will be the one with his name on the PC leadership position.

He doesn't speak almost any French, and unlike other candidates, I'll just be blunt and say I don't think he could learn it.

Also, he would never want to leave Etobicoke. It's his whole world.

 

[Mihairokov]

Ford won't be leading the federal CPC. Western CPCs and Toronto PCs are like oil and water.

 

[reaperexpress]

Ford won a landslide. I don't believe he is concerned about the few people in these areas who will remember he failed yet alone Bonnie Crombie...

I am also going to guess if the current PM stumbles at all Ford will be the one with his name on the PC leadership position.

I'm not sure I would call 43% of the votes a landslide.

 

[sixrings]

I'm not sure I would call 43% of the votes a landslide.

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Yet three majorities. When was the last time anyone had three majorities. I don’t vote for the man but apparently there are people that like him.

I can understand that Alberta and Ontario conservatives are different. However all governments like being in power even if they have to sell their souls down the river. I’m sure there are republicans who are not big trumpers but hey he got them a victory so they rode that ship to their own end.

Btw this is not anyone’s predictions but mine.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Another video of West Harbour’s new connecting track in service

 

[evandyk]

He doesn't speak almost any French, and unlike other candidates, I'll just be blunt and say I don't think he could learn it.

Also, he would never want to leave Etobicoke. It's his whole world.

Plus he can find so many more ways to screw Toronto as Premier than he could as PM.

Let's face it, his dream is still to be the Mayor of Toronto for longer than his brother was.

 

[Toronto1834]

Another video of West Harbour’s new connecting track in service

Is that 30mph? It looked slower to me.

 

[Krypto98]

Is that 30mph? It looked slower to me.

That looks like it sped up to around 25 mph then slowed down to 15 mph

 

[Metroscapes]

That looks like it sped up to around 25 mph then slowed down to 15 mph

I figure that's gotta be temporary for the ballast / new rail. The switch at the east end is 45 mph and the speed limit on the sub is 30.

This was posted in the GO Transit thread in the Global Transit and Infrastructure Discord server.

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[guavadelic]

NDP and Liberal MPs are demanding answers over collapsed OnXpress agreement.

Metrolinx not releasing details on scrapped GO Transit, UP operating deal as opposition demands answers​

“We don’t know the scope of this change, we don’t know if it’s operations only or what? This is the biggest P3 (public-private partnership) that the government has, and we’re finding out about it kind of in rumours and whispers about this change,” Jennifer French, the Ontario NDP’s transportation critic and the MPP for Oshawa, told CityNews.


“The board hasn’t met in [six] months, so they don’t even know, and the government, the ones who should be communicating this, are just quietly burying their heads in the sand

In mid-May, posts began appearing on social media and the website of local employment law firm Samfiru Tumarkin LLP, alluding to many workers being let go, and the firm reported “several affected workers” contacted lawyers seeking reviews of severance agreements

While issues involving the cancelled operating deal are among the most recent issues facing the provincial transportation agency, Hazell said it is part of an ongoing pattern.

“There is … no transparency, no transparency from the government, from Metrolinx, no updates on their website.

“I am an MPP in Scarborough-Guildwood. We’ve got, like, about four or five transit projects in Scarborough. There is never an update coming out to us as an MPP in Scarborough

https://toronto.citynews.ca/2025/05...-information-from-ontario-opposition-parties/

 

[crs1026]

This would be an opportune time for concerned UTers to write their MPP complaining about ML secrecy and the lack of information/progress reports/accountability on any of ML's current or announced projects (take your pick).

The public also has the option of putting their comments on the record at ML Board meetings. The next Board meeting will happen in a couple of weeks.

- Paul

 

[PShells]

The next construction closure on the Stouffville line is not until June 21-22 (and again on July 5-6), but equipment is being stored on the unused double track next to the former Lawrence East RT station. If we're lucky all of the signaling work completed between Kennedy and Agincourt in 2024 can be brought into service soon.

 

[evandyk]

This would be an opportune time for concerned UTers to write their MPP complaining about ML secrecy and the lack of information/progress reports/accountability on any of ML's current or announced projects (take your pick).

The public also has the option of putting their comments on the record at ML Board meetings. The next Board meeting will happen in a couple of weeks.

- Paul

An old friend of mine is on the Metrolinx board. Obviously he's not going to tell me anything that's not public record, but I'm going to tell him people I know are very keen on getting answers to these questions.