The main think I find about Dougie's vision is the lack of thought about ventilation. Even Boston's Big Dig wasn't venting into the core of downtown. I don't see Harper or Hudak ponying up to pay a private firm to make money off a public investment. Harris already has attached the Conservative...

My mental estimate of Kitchener is stuck in the 90s I guess. Drop the smallest city from each segment and the point is still valid. People don't argue against the City of North Bay or City of London, as mostly farmland and suburban sprawl.

GO did a site visit on May 20th that turned up a few deficiencies that required flagging (water in the fibre transceiver box). Accenture deemed the site not ready and a new site visit required. CN requires 4 weeks notice to schedule a flagman, so there was a sizable delay between when they...

So Google's AutoCar driving for 225,000 km as of last October in real world conditions with one accident (a rear-ending by a human while stopped at lights), doesn't mitigate your catastrophic visions? The cars do have a manual override mode. I can think of two additional fail safes that would...

Any reason why, or just because you said so? Do you believe human drivers in privately owned vehicles is the better idea? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Fxp3HK6DI Some ping-pong robots to show more precise high-speed reactions: Topsy the Ping Pong Dominator Two balls, one paddle

Greenwood, BC has a population of 625 and is still a City. Vaughan had a larger population than Kitchener-Waterloo as of 2006 and probably bigger than the tri-city area by now.

Agreed. It'll be 10-20 years before we see any profound shifts in demographics, but if this catches on well in Nedava, then like seatbelts or daytime running lights, I see it becoming mandatory for at least main arterials. Some interesting wording in the Nedava law... They're restricting...

Does anyone remember a tender for 'legal services' or was KPMG sole-sourced/"hand-picked" like everything else to do with TTIL? If they wanted to keep cost under wraps for this pie-in-the-sky conception, they should try something truly innovative like an open-sourced, group-sourced design...

I've just had a quick look and it'd be tight, but doable depending on their design speed. As a rule of thumb, a 160m radius can provide 25 mph operating speeds. I couldn't get google to draw a circle, but a rough Google...

It's probably better than I remember for Brits. I had a tendency to look the wrong way whenever crossing the road, and there it's a bit tricking knowing from which way to expect a car. Was a bit of a hike up to the footy. It'll be interesting to see the final product of Picadilly next year at...

There is no one perfect solution, but each techology does have a proper place as well as limitations. What is important is finding the best solution for a particular area. From the choices available: yield signs, stop signs, signalization, roundabouts, and grade seperation; a roundabout is the...

Nice find. Is it just me or does it look like Jane and Weston are in some 'future phase' and they're looking at 24 stations now?

I think there is a different is scale between Oxford Circus and Square One. There are 38,000 pph (Oxford Circus), while Rathburn/Duke of York is predicted to have 3542 vph in 2031. Unless you think thousands of people will start walking to Square One, this isn't the place for a pedestrian scrable.

The original spacing was 850m average subway (~11km Keele to Laird, 12 stations, 13 tunnel segments) and 450m-500m average surface including Phase 2 (~8km, 15 stations including Kennedy, 13 segments).

I think it'll be the tail end of July, if not August before YRT goes live. There is no date on the http://www.yrt.ca/presto/index.asp page yet. In related news, Durham RT is starting Presto co-fares on Monday (June 27).

Aye, 850m average spacing would give 30 stations over 25km. However, from Jane to Kennedy is ~19km and the SRT upgrades from Kennedy to STC is ~6km, without additional stations. 26 stations over 19km from Jane to Kennedy is ~760m spacing (10% under original 850m), which would be slower than...

I've not been out there in awhile (July '09), but there were only 7 wayside power cabinets installed at Milton Layover Yard then, and I don't recall seeing a tender for the provision of a new one. So unless someone else can remember differently, there isn't the infrastructure in place, although...

Since you are no expert and you didn't want to accept my explaination, instead of just "leaving it", I actually just asked someone... While it's Metrolinx doing the work, the TTC still has input to set the parameters of what they are thinking of doing. The 'up to 26 stations' is more of an...

'Driver' is a modern addition to UK usage because train operators are no longer necessarily engineers. The term is meant to cover two of the three main unions for rail in the UK: Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers, National Union of Railwaymen, and excluding the Railway Clerks'...

I'm not the spelling police, but I am a Grammar Fascist. Just as half and haft are two different words, so are lose and loose. If you use a loose haft of an axe, you might lose half of a leg.