The 15-minute city is not designed to trap you (though I know some people that believe it). It is built on the principle of being able to fulfill your daily needs within a 15-minute radius of your residence. Both to encourage sustainable urban design, sustainable transportation, and to provide...

Yes, this is also a useful feature.

Would there be data available on whether the perpetrators in these crimes had paid their fare? I don't suppose this is tracked, though I have a hard time believing that someone would pay a fare to commit an attack of some sort; I would be inclined to lean towards 'no'.

Furthermore, both Line 5 and Line 6 have gotten exceptions for travel 10 km/h above the speed limit (i.e. 60 km/h). However, that assumes that they have the ability to achieve those top speeds, which models have hinted that they do not. Not sure how much of a difference that makes in practice.

In regards to the other projects that are extensions, those are just project names. The Eglinton Crosstown West Extension will be part of Line 5 Eglinton after opening and SSE will just be Line 2.

Unfortunately, they are not pre-qualified to bid on TTCs new train fleet. These manufacturers were shortlisted from the RFQ. Alstom Transport Canada Inc. CRRC Qingdao Sifang Co., Ltd. Hyundai Rotem Company Kawasaki Rail Car, Inc

Just to throw in a point to the discussion, let's remember that just because there were no public announcements, that there wasn't work being done in the background...

I wouldn't say that is necessarily the case, that depends on the specific language that is used. But, there is definitely an expectation that the group you've been working with during the development phase will also continue with the actual execution of the work. In a way, that could signal...

Since these are Progressive DB contracts, the DPA allows the preferred proponent to collaborate with the client to develop the designs, requirements, and actively negotiate on the cost. In the end, they create a project agreement that is more achievable because it was developed together. Some of...

This is definitely true, the only credit Ford should get is for the Building Transit Faster Act and giving his approval for the project scope change.

Connect6ix is the consortium that consists of multiple companies. A consortium is a group of companies that partner to make collective use of their strengths to bid on projects. The trains will be manufactured by Hitachi Rail (a member of the consortium).

It's true that above ground construction costs much less, but, there is significantly more complexity with the frequent grade changes. I'm not convinced that the whole line can be had for 10 B, which in reality is only 3-4 B more than RLS.

I've been reading a lot of your posts for a while. I'm going to respond to them now because you have been using a lot of assumptions to justify the decision-making of the OL. What I'm seeing here is a lack of understanding for civil engineering work and transportation planning. The initial...

Oh yeah! Granite Setts would do excellent in discouraging traffic, it's quite uncomfortable. They could also do with a low curb with cutouts for the tracks.

I agree with this post wholeheartedly. There is a significant amount of politicization of planning in North America and transportation infrastructure in Toronto is a good example of that. The fact that the Province has no costing details except probably less than a Class 5 estimate and...

Well, yes, that's a point too... aside from their clear desire to cancel all these projects by unrealistically ballooning the costs and making them more 'fancy'

The two letters that have been posted contract quite severely in 'who is to blame' so to speak. Did anyone notice in the recently posted MTO by WKLis, they made a comment about making the relief line not 'beholden to the technologically-outdated Line 2' while in two points above, they...

It still doesn't invalidate the duration of the process though.

Just a general question about the use of a Right-Turn Green Arrow. I was wondering if it has different meanings depending on the municipality? I was in Windsor over the summer and I noticed that they used them to represent the movements that cars were allowed to travel, similar to some ideas...