If they are concerned, the unions should ensure a successorship right clause in the next contract round. They only had since the HFT concept started being bounced around to do so.

I wouldn't expect investor announcements until after regulatory approval.

The procurement timeline going forward looks pretty typical to me. Remember that the options here weren't speedy construction with a $10 billion budget authorization up front where money can buy stakeholder consensus versus the current process. It was status quo versus the current process.

Unifor doesn’t like P3s. That isn’t news, nor a surprise.

No. Very different roles.

Over the mountains in the west, and along the valleys into Vancouver, the capital costs will be so large that the government will have to play a role. At some point the quick wins from de-bottlenecking will be done and major projects will be needed instead. There aren't abandoned corridors that...

It is sad that there is so much off street parking on the Richmond corridor, but as always local businesses will think that if someone can't park right in front, that they'll suffer greatly. The off-street is fragmented, poorly allocated, and hard to navigate—but it isn't lacking.

To follow on, I present my London Ontario LRT real estate focusing line, because London doesn't have the density to support a polycentric network, so the best is to try to create a linear one. While hopefully making downtown a useful place to build density, to feed the polycentric destinations...

So, this is a huge debate in transit circles, but it really shouldn't be. It is the same as whether the Canada Line should have been built with provisions for 80m trains, or the entire Canada Line + Legacy Lines built with provisions for 120m trains. But it is pretty easy to show it is wrong...

Unfortunately they are in the mid-sized city trap, where what they can afford, even with 70% from elsewhere, doesn't improve trip times or service levels much (the old plan), because they don't have the resources available to clear bottlenecks, or provide adequate ROW protection. Better bus...

It depends. Own can be quite colloquial. Likely somewhere in the 50-99 year lease range. There is a reason the stadium itself sold for so little, there are so many legal encumbrances (long term deals at low to no revenue) stretching back all the way to the initial financing. Given the long...

They did a great job at Nationals Park. Visited it a week after went to a game at Wrigley, and somehow the stadium is much much larger, and yet felt nearly as intimate, and not a retro park.

Yonge has two lanes of setback the most of the length of the extension by a quick review on Google Earth. Could easily cut and cover the entire thing with minimal disruption. Whether that would save money, probably all the savings would be in the changes to station boxes which would be driven by...

For that money, they could expropriate all those houses, plus build the station. Then resell the houses.

And aren’t local routes majority state funded anyways? I’d guess in LA the risk of the state government coming in with an operational subsidy is minimal.

Going deeper means deeper ventilation shafts. Stronger fans. It is pretty easy at this stage to just dismiss it as a zero cost move. But considering the total budget it is hard to dismiss this as nothing.

Below grade in the metrolinx document isn’t contemplating tbm depth. And yeah if you go to expropriate an easement for tbm tunnelling I bet you’re looking at a symbolic amount - like $5000 a house. There isn’t any market value for 30m down. It isn’t like running a natural gas line in your side...

^ You don’t need to expropriate homes to go underneath.

^ as the hub and transfer station - a station designed to move lots of people - having it at ground level saves even more money than relocating an average station. Not that any of the line should be underground imo.

Every addition like this is not a huge cost increase. But they all add up, in capital and operating costs. Can kiss the ability to have an unmanned station goodbye as well.