Any confusion about Carling (and Baseline) is down to me. What I meant is that with LRT extensions so expensive for almost no realizable benefit in speed, capacity, or ridership, the city should start looking at other projects already in the works. Carling does have a notional rail plan, but I...

Each car has about 300 square feet of usable space. Tiny homes?

Buses 74 and 75 both run south to Fallowfield every 15 minutes 75 takes the transitway while 74 goes straight up Woodroffe. Eventually they meet up. There are extra buses on the transitway during peak hours. I get the objection to running directly on the road. This possibility was however...

Le tout Ottawa is waking up and smelling the coffee, and coming to the mass conclusion that Stage Three of light rail, to Barrhaven and Kanata/Stittsville, ain't happening for a long time. The business case just isn't there. CBC Ottawa has a good article on this sad but refreshingly realistic...

Sounds like bus service in Ontario has devolved to something like the wild west. Really the Province should be stepping in to bring some order through regulation and possibly even a compulsory shared booking and info site. Conventional wisdom has been that we no longer need dedicated bus...

Perhaps he'll hovercraft in from Humber Bay Park.

That puffy announcement also confirms they have essentially abandoned any significant transportation link between Exhibition Station and OP. Doug Ford will drive up in his Escalade, cut the ribbon on the sidewalk, and that's it. Hence the huge garage.

Actually not 10 times, less than 8.8 and dropping as our population grows faster. Everyone's automatic math of times ten is misleading.

The big unanswered question in resolving the problems discussed in the last few posts is this: Will Montreal- and Ottawa-bound trains be completely separate services, partly separate, or combined, and if separate, will Montreal trains go right through Smith's Falls and use the Winchester...

Fascinating. If you look at the "Plan" page that train doesn't show up, but on the "Reservations" page it does. Clearly they haven't updated some pages yet with the service increases. I suspect it was added recently and someone made a typo in the schedule. Kingston to Fallowfield in 87...

Yes, Google shows it's a 17 minute walk. I walked over 6 miles on Thursday in a heat wave. But then I'm a boomer. Were I Gen Z, I guess a scooter would be required 🤔

I don't know where reaperexpress found that wonky schedule with 50 minutes from Fallowfield to Ottawa but it doesn't seem to be valid. I checked VIA's site for that day and there is no train from Kingston at 1530. There are trains at 1447 and 1638. Both show 17 minutes from Fallowfield. Which...

Doug Ford is in the process of demolishing himself instead. He'll be sitting in his underwear yelling at the TV by the time anything is built at OP. The building is safe I think.

This thread illustrates that there ought to have been a public debate about how to revitalize OP before the process was launched. But that isn't how modern conservative parties operate. They are authoritarian and decide public matters in private and shove the results up our ... well you know.

I was rudely told by the attendant to get it out of the way of the hordes. I'm not saying that the line should only be for airport travelers, but they should be the first consideration. Increasing and changing the service structure on the line should fix the issues.

The one time I used the train from Pearson to Union luggage seemed to be regarded as a nuisance. If the raison d'etre is airport transport, it shouldn't be overwhelmed by commuters.

I'm glad both that there are enough riders to justify an increase, and that one is being implemented. One of the shuttle bus routes is also being cancelled. I rode and timed the line from end to end last weekend. Two observations. The trip took 29 minutes 30 seconds, which used to be about...

Some cookie, some crumble. Toronto had a comprehensive report on the urgency of the problem and the options in 2006. (You know, two years after "Transit First" on the east waterfront...) And a finalized EPR on the chosen replacement only 3 years later. Sometimes you have to just dip the...

I remember the process to make over "Union Plaza" that led to the problems they are trying to solve now. It was all about removing physical and visual barriers and turning the whole block into a sort of overgrown woonerf with pedestrians wandering at will like so many mighty moose. These are...

Thanks Urban Sky, that's a really interesting perspective. We all wish VIA would get into the specifics on these issues but they are actually more secretive than Metrolinx on all of this. If I understand correctly you would run HSR to somewhere between Bonarlaw and Tweed, then divert all the...