In my ideal world, Hamilton would become a bigger regional presence if the province and the feds embraced the "friendshoring" that the US wants to do, and SW Ontario can start hosting various semiconductor, electronics and EV manufacturing. Any high-tech manufacturing would be bouyed by...

More frequent service from Brantford to St Catharines to promote Hamilton as a secondary hub in its own right? Admittedly that would be fighting the prevailing trends of centralization around downtown Toronto

I wonder if there is the ridership for a more frequent GO service along Niagara through Hamilton and then goes west to Brantford. Obviously no need for 6 trains per hour from Union to Niagara Falls, but maybe there is potential for 6 trains per hour from Hamilton to St Catharines?

Overhead lines and double stack containers are possible.

Using the data from here I've Compiled a table of the different series and the average age of the bilevel coaches and it turns out that many of the coaches are actually very young. The total size of the coach fleet is 942 coaches. Only the Series I and Series II are older than 35 years old...

Eglinton isnt a subway mix though. And unless we grade separate the eastern section to make it higher capacity, we need to protect at least one midtown corridor for a high speed crosstown service. Lawrence can be a street running LRT, but only if Eglinton is totally grade separated.

Lawrence should not be an LRT. We already botched the Eglinton crosstown by making it an LRT. We should protect Lawrence for a high capacity, fully grade separated, high floor, subway.

Why does the city need custom designed interlocking protective concrete blocks? Is there additional protective value in having the concrete blocks interlock? Isn’t the sheer mass of concrete enough to stop any vehicle?

TTC management might not care about their customer image, but they are answerable to city council. And councilors might get pissed if the TTC tells them to kick rocks.

Politics, Covering their A*s*s, trial running the busses Its a bit hard to outright kill the Scarborough RT right now because people can argue, hey let us use the train for another 3 months. So you just slowroll the investigation. Honestly the TTC got a bit lucky with the derailment. If the...

In ye olden days, nearly everyone worked on the farm as a subsidence farmer. The mechanization of agriculture, such that only 2% of all laborers could be easily seen by pre-industrial farmers as "throwing everyone out of work" We don't have to trust the general public to do that themselves...

Anti-investment measures: Entities owning a home must be an adult, or registered rental corporations or development companies Rental corporations are subject to rent control on units older than 10 years, must provide data on vacancy rates, vacant units subject to vacancy tax that escalates the...

Just put cowcatchers up front, and cars who block the bus path get pushed out the way. Damage is entirely your fault for being illegally parked.

Probably elevated, ala Davenport diamond.

Even at 150M/km thats way cheaper than tunneling and building underground stations. If we can save 100-200M per station by building aboveground stations along an expropriated surface ROW and as long as the cost of expropriation isn't double that of tunneling, then we can build transit with huge...

It surely can't be that expensive to expropriate all the way to McCowan and Ellesmere. I'm busy now, but I will count the number of houses along/in the ROW. At 5.5billion outright expropriating all the houses and then building a surface subway to Scarborough Town Center would be cheaper.

What is/was stopping the government from expropriating the houses along the old ROW

With that level of regulation, why not just make standard floor/ home plans developers can build with planning interference or just build it yourself as the government. Goddammit, why can't the province or city make money by selling standardized floor plans?

Its the old North Yonge Railways right of way https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Yonge_Railways

When was the last time Ontario was hit by a magnitude 9 earthquake and 10m tsunami? And how many people died from Fukushima? And how much radiation was actually released from Fukushima?