I doubt those with experience and appreciation for the amount of technical, environmental, commercial and legal work that still needs to be done on this project would agree with this. The knock-on effects of having the portals on the west side of the Don on planned USRC projects (train storage...

The Technical Advisor assignment for the full line is posted on MERX: https://www.merx4.merx.com/public/solicitations/1118655922/abstract Two things, among many others, jump out to me as concerning: the unachievable delivery schedule that has the TA starting by November 2019 and having the RFP...

^^Too funny. I'm not even a fan/reader of Levy or her rag but thought she would be an ideal journalist to dig into the years of waste that aren't hidden very far beneath the surface. If not her, insert your own preferred person for the job...the story is (should be) the same, no matter the...

Sue Anne would be the perfect journalist to take a deep dive into how tax dollars and schedules are being squandered at ML.

Regarding lowering Broadview, you're now lowering the intersection with Eastern Avenue and all existing approaches on the north, east and west sides in a floodplain and in a way that will affect the DVP ramp alignments. It's also important to note that any alignment design for Broadview will...

steveintoronto has brought up tunnelling and geotechnical challenges with having the line cross above the Don and DVP but I contend there are simpler geometry issues that make this essentially impossible (nothing is "impossible" but the scale of impacts do not make it feasible). One just has to...

Crossing the Don above grade makes a ton of sense to enable a friendlier at-grade connection to GO, the proposed Broadview extension, and for the happy sheep working at First Gulf's new "business district". But look at the lay of the land there...the Lakeshore East rail corridor is on an...

It's interesting to read your take on things...we're certainly coming at it from different angles. Yours seems to be more from one where policy and the government-of-the-day is to blame and Verster is the front person left to try and pick up the pieces (not entirely, but conveniently summarized...

Unfortunately, he's a travelling salesman and my guess is he won't make it to the 2 year mark before he takes his shtick to the next, well-funded transit program elsewhere on the globe. One thing is for sure...the lucrative consultant contracts will sprout up in his wake.

Your Metrolinx Engage question asking for this year's capital budget is a good one but I think there are two others that would reveal more about how ML has done so far overseeing GO Expansion/RER: 1. How much has been spent to date on GO Expansion; and 2. What is the value of actual...