In London, there's been an aggressive drive for temporary barriers to block traffic for "Low Traffic Neighbourhoods" that are cheaper and much nicer than concrete barriers, mostly in the form of very large wooden planters.

A significant chunk of Caledon's infrastructure is funded by Peel....which means it's being subsidised by Brampton and Mississauga.

There's a (split) stop at Wellington/Queen Street in the Downtown portion. There's no room in the road right-of-way to accommodate four lanes + a centre/side platform. Putting the LRT on the sides allows you to use the sidewalk for that purpose without turning into a TTC streetcar stop (which...

They have mixed-traffic LRT operations in Greater Manchester, in sections where the road width is the same as Main Street. The Hurontario LRT will be fine with this, especially as the mixed-section is now shorter than before (previous EA had mixed-operations from Nanwood, not Wellington). The...

From Wiki: A tram-train is a light-rail public transport tram vehicles running through from an urban tramway network to main-line railway lines which are shared with conventional trains. This combines the tram's flexibility and accessibility with a train's greater speed, and bridges the distance...

Grand River Transit, upon the start of ION service, abandoned the spoke-and-hub system, particularly centred around the Charles Street Terminal, in favour of the grid-like system of the TTC (which, in systems that have emulated it previously like Brampton Transit, has led to increased ridership...

The biggest problem with the central lawn, and the university as a whole, is that for most of the academic year, it's just plain not pleasant to be out on it. You might catch some rays in September, but the nice part of year, from May to August, the university is basically a ghost town except...

They made Shoreditch High Street on the London Overground a Zone 1 station, so if you try to get from north London to south London without going through the central core (pre-pandemic, I regularly went from Canonbury to Canada Water), you can't go around on the east orbital route without...

Eh, not the worst decision. Most of the Brampton Transit routes into Caledon are just skimming the border (Mayfield West, Airport Distribution Centre, Mayfield Secondary School are all just above Mayfield Road). Even Bolton isn't that far from the Brampton border. I wonder if the Orangeville GO...

I wonder if this model means that if you go through Union from Zone B for destination outside Toronto, you get charge for Zone A. That's the the TfL model which makes sense for long journeys, but annoys anyone trying to avoid Zone 1 on the Overground if they go through one particular station...

Alstom's Citadis model line seems to have a few designs similar to this. See: Tours, Sydney.

I believe that's the land assembly Metrolinx bought to build a new a surface lot for Brampton GO

I think the only piece that you're really missing with existing infrastructure is Bathurst between Bloor and St. Clair, maybe only stopping at Davenport and Dupont to keep the reliability for access to Hilcrest. St. Clair West is a turn-back station, so when Line 1 is shut down south of the...

But more than that, you need consistent calls for construction for those companies to stay active. For example, the French have many LRT/tram engineers (+ Alstom as decent vehicle supplier) because 24 modern LRT systems have opened and expanded consistently since 1985.

I suspect if you look at census data and Transportation Tomorrow Survey, a significant chunk of people are commuting from Waterdown to Hamilton/Burlington and vice-versa.

Because North Americans prefer rail over buses. I'd suggest bus options if we were more European in this regard, but stigmas remain. Also, in some places, the infrastructure is still there, so why not re-use it?

Yes. Rebuild it all. Throw a couple of (battery electric if you want) DMUs on some of these lines and have some form of limited service. There's a study out in Waterloo Region of essentially buying some of that UPX DMU stock and running from Cambridge to Guelph via Hespeler as opposed to...

When you sit in the Customer Service Centre at the TTC, where the position that handles the Twitter account and other things (I know, I did it for the majority of 2017), you have to be emotionally-detached when responding to every customer complaint (and we did have to respond to everything...

This is fairly standard with curbside bus lanes in Europe.

If you're ever in the northern half of the UK, where Tim Hortons is wildly expanding in Scotland and the north of England, taste the coffee. It actually tastes different, and I think that's because they face serious competition from Pret a Manger, Costa, Cafe Nero, etc. Even M&S' £1 coffee is...