https://www.railwaygazette.com/traction-and-rolling-stock/koda-to-supply-bemus-to-latvia/70129.article Beating ssiguy to the BEMU news

Does the Valley Line have issues? This looks like a routine switch clearing operation to me. I think the CTrain is actually the better comparison - they've been running an at-grade downtown section for 40 years now, so if snow and ice clearing was some major burden, we'd have heard about it.

Don't look into what is required to clear a bus shelter or a sidewalk for people to use in the winter, the answer might shock you! Jesse's post is some "jUsT aSking quEstiOns" gish gallop from a wannabe Edmonton politician. Infrastructure requires some manual labour to keep working well...

If they start building today and the route they rush to get shovelling gets jammed up in a legal struggle for years because a farmer doesn't take the cash or agree to a land swap, you'll end up just like California: desperately pissing money into the wind because they immediately ran into legal...

Are you feeling more optimistic about an opening time with all this recent activity or is it too little too late?

A search for "left turn" yields 4 pages of comment on a 162 page thread, seems like a pretty popular sentiment. It's both - A streetcar should eliminate as many left turns as feasible AND have enough room to allow an electric motor. If we aren't going to bother with running vehicles at speed...

Ah gotcha, I can see one visible on Streets View here...

How does a pedestrian signal work in this context? It would be disabled when an approaching train is detected, but would otherwise trigger a flashing light to stop car traffic? Is this some common off-the-shelf product or is this some bespoke solution with expensive boondoggle potential? If a...

The commentary document is no longer available for some reason, but from the presentation, I'm seeing quite a few very tightly spaced pedestrian crossings already, so it seems odd to imagine adding many more. Found a working link...

https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilton-region/more-trees-please-hamilton-pitches-lrt-route-design-improvements-to-metrolinx/article_785dff12-2d8c-5564-8af4-c1a93d65db5a.html Hamilton’s LRT staff apparently want to add ten signalled pedestrian crossings to ensure that the future rapid transit...

I know you all feel the same way and I'm preaching to the choir, but it always amazes me that these self-driving pod evangelists don't realize how inefficient it will be having these empty vehicles driving around to pick up clients. It would be a dramatic step backwards in the use of our...

My gut feeling is that Confederation is built for transit oriented development. It's 2km's of strip malls and car dealerships South of there, Eastgate Mall has a massive development planned, and Hamilton is creating some express buses along that corridor that extend deep into the escarpment...

Other Hamilton news: https://thepublicrecord.ca/2025/09/bus-barn-ventilation-issue-due-to-indoor-natural-gas-refuelling-station/ Apparently the new massive bus facility is facing a new delay of a couple months to bring the natural gas refueling system up to HVAC code.

https://news.ontario.ca/en/advisory/1006544/premier-ford-to-hold-a-press-conference “Premier Doug Ford will be joined by Prabmeet Sarkaria, Minister of Transportation, and Andrea Horwath, Mayor of Hamilton, to provide remarks and hold a media availability.” Any wagers on the topic? I’m...

Here's Arcadis' final report for service roll-out for those that haven't read it: https://pub-hamilton.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=465546 Very ambitious timeline that assumes a 2032 LRT completion. The tl;dr is a total revamp of the system from a hub (MacNab terminal) and...