There doesn't seem to be room for ALTO on top of everything that's already there. Yet stations are called "Union" because they bring everything together in one place, instead of various lines going to different stations. Booting VIA, whose lines are supposed to be feeders to some extent, as...

Substack article says Claridge has bought the Hudson's Bay store on Rideau! This should be fun.

In his imagination, where it belongs. I think Ford will be dead in the water within months.

I went by the terminated terminal the other day. There's a very nice blue rippling pond there. If they don't build, they can always stock it for fishing. I assume they'll continue digging soon, though.

If we had a more sensible culture around both land and transportation in this country, it would be possible to knit together a 200/225/250 kph corridor using bits of the 401 and railway ROWs, with some expansion but really not too much cost in expropriation or severing roads. In particular, the...

It's true that rural opposition currently has a real head-scratcher tone these days. CBC Ottawa interviewed someone this week who called $1000 compensation for walking onto a farm for a few hours to do a survey and count gophers insulting and peanuts. We're continually told farmers are all...

I put in an edit. The Flexity line was originally Bombardier of course, but is now owned by Alstom. It all does lend itself to confusion. According to the good folk at Wikipedia, "In 2024, several versions of the Flexity family were retroactively rebranded by Alstom into its own Citadis...

I don't know anything about the Philadelphia system so I wasted nearly an hour trying to find out online. And you can't. It's still in the design phase. But judging from the illustrations you can find, and some bits of info here and there, it seems to be a shrunken version of the Citadis...

Had we been presented with a spiderweb map of potential ROWs (it surely exists, we just can't see it), the cries we are hearing would be Blindsided! Blindsided! No consultation is ever going to please everyone where property is involved.

As far as I can tell the new showy arch spans the parkway and river all in one go. The old railway bridge doesn't need an arch because it's a series of spans.

The problem with talking about tunneling is that Ontario can no longer imagine doing it affordably. Instead of basic stations that are quick and easy to build and use, like Queen's Quay, they must be vast spaces with mezzanines that take several minutes to use and render the line useless for...

I was both being facetious and making a point. The money earmarked for this building is insane. A concrete pad and some portolets could be installed by a private company for a few thousand dollars. They are contemplating something on the order of $3500 per square foot, much more than the...

I walked by the tiny grassy knoll yesterday where Toilet Mahal is going to be built. Blink and you'll miss it. $700,000 per toilet and enough maintenance money to hire 10 full-time cleaners. This house on Maclaren is for sale at 71K less, and has two washrooms. Buy it and open the door. Or...

Gee, I've lived in a mostly 15 minute neighborhood for decades. I'm shocked to find I imagined it all. I'm waking up in the shower in the burbs!

While I'm largely in favour of the HSR plan, I'm also bothered by the occult process by which HFR morphed into it. We were never allowed to see any of the proposals, routines, or costings. For years we were told HFR would deliver 2/3 of the benefit at 1/3 of the cost. Where did that math go...