And while we're doing that, one great way to speed the line up would be to just not open or close the doors at stops. This would reduce dwell times to nearly nothing, and eliminate the risk of a delay to a passenger alarm.

The maps I've seen all presume that the ALTO route will run along the north shore of the St. Lawrence and dip directly into Montreal from the Northwest via Laval. Adding a stop at Dorval would require a significant deviation, and may cut against the apparent intent of treating Laval as a...

Eglinton uses completely different switch heaters and has been tested in the winter for several years now. I doubt there are any surprises for them here.

As a matter of constituent service, politicians work strenuously to avoid ever having to tell a constituent "no", even if they completely disagree with the constituent. Four standard techniques for avoiding a "no" include: Reframing the concern into vaguer and vaguer terms until you can bring...

This makes a great deal of sense as a summer tourist service: a successful sightseeing service would attract omnidirectional, all-day demand, and these routes would also solve geographic problems for this market. (As a visitor to the city, travelling from Cherry Beach to Ontario Place looks...

Then perhaps next time you'll take the note. 💁‍♀️

I feel like I give people the treatment they deserve.

"The new transit line opening five years late will have a shaky launch" is not an interesting take, and you don't need to reheat it every time a new piece of information about the line emerges.

Why would the city prioritize clearing snow from a transit line which isn't in revenue service?

Several intercity bus services, including Ontario Northland, serve the current station. Between the various private operators and the KLM/Air France services to YUL, there are easily 12-15 intercity buses serving the station on any given Friday. (Which, in a post-Greyhound era, is nothing to...

Now that Doug Ford has personally leaked opening day, one suspects that, if the city makes a liar of him, the Executive Committee's kneecaps will receive a special deposition from Cody Welton's sledgehammer.

If only the news had broken seven posts later. 😢

It's unusual for a Canadian heavy rail corridor, but it's the global standard for dedicated high-speed rail lines.

The latest estimates put it in the late 2030s at the earliest.

To recap what several people have already pointed out about the downtown Ottawa station: The trainshed and associated infrastructure are gone. They cannot be rebuilt without demolishing several other buildings, including National Defence Headquarters and Ottawa's principal convention centre...