If you want tolls on the highway, the two acceptable places for the funds to go are highway maintenance, and GO Transit. The toll method would probably be congestion pricing to try to ensure the highways don't hit stop and go traffic speeds. You'd need to start slow and ratchet your way up...

Fare capping is being launched by the City of Brampton on Monday https://www.brampton.ca/EN/City-Hall/News/Pages/Service-and-Information-Update.aspx/217

That time the City of Brampton shot itself in the gonads is the gift that keeps on giving. Apparently it was never part of the scope " While there was a request for an underground connection from the platform south of Steeles to the Gateway Terminal, this was never included as part of the...

Check out the open house

Hurontario LRT Extension open house is up https://bramptonlrt.com/

I understand slow orders are a normal part of rail operation once the temperature exceeds 30 C, my question is, since Ottawa is looking at a 3 C warming by 2050, how common are slow orders going to be, and will it compromise rail capacity and speed...

New HVAC unit being installed at Gateway Terminal. Also got a chance to peak at the upper portion to Gateway terminal, South/West side seems to be a mechanical penthouse. Does anyone know what the other half of the upper floor to Gateway Terminal is?

Brampton Transit Open House for the third storage and maintenance facility https://www.brampton.ca//EN/residents/Roads/Pages/road-works-details.aspx/3098/Transit-Maintenance-Facility

5G is needed for full autonomy for cars, not buses, because cars need to be able to be fully autonomous everywhere while buses have predefined routes programmed in, with some detours. Fortunately the provincial government owns a strip of land that connects Toronto and Barrier that GO Transit...

This was actually my point, we have had self driving rail for 35 years, but the future was stalled by unions and regulations, and even when done like the SkyTrain, it is still quite expensive. The real game changer is autonomous buses because they would be relatively cheap, and the operating...

Open house is up https://t.co/Pfy4hJyjqo?amp=1

Yes, Rail would be the easiest thing, imagine if someone could make something like the Scarborough RT, but more modern and self driving. Autonomous rail vehicles aren't a game changer because the costs are mostly capital, so it isn't saved, whereas for buses, the cost is mostly the operator...

True level 5 autonomous cars is going to be hard because of too many variable paths, reaching level 4 for buses would be a lot easier because you would be programming in defined paths, so it doesn't need to worry about routing. Also, as most of the cost of a bus is the driver, the cost to run...

Incredibly important sentence in the press release "The construction of this facility, including full electrification requirements, is contingent upon receiving funding from other levels of government. " No funding currently for electrification

New Brampton Transit service changes https://www.brampton.ca/EN/residents/transit/plan-your-trip/Pages/Service-Changes.aspx

They could ask the province or federal government for funding, it doesn't change that the underground route would be even worse value for money than the Scarborough Subway Project should be based on the merits of the project, and not punishing cities. This link returns an error for me...

It is worth noting that one of the reasons YRT's farebox recovery is substantially worse than Brampton and Mississauga is that the YRT budget includes paratransit, whereas the Brampton and Mississauga budgets do not, the Region of Peel carries it. From the approved 2020 Peel Budget, notice the...

When your parents tell you they will 100% pay for you to get a new Honda Civic, and you demand a G Wagen, and they retract the offer.

They wanted it their way, what they forgot was that with the province 100% funding it, the city's input is irrelevant, that it was "my way or the highway". Brampton Transit is so overcrowded, that it was violating laws many times a day due to overcrowding during the post-secondary school year...

Hamilton voted to let SoBi die