Simple. Have competitive quoting (including the existing union) for both operations and maintenance. You can shave 15-25% of the people costs pretty quickly. (and right now the unionized TTC is doing a pretty crappy job at managing it so it's not hard to be better) Then you sell development...

YES!!!!! If you look at the polling only 33% thought the LRT was the main issue of the campaign. Albeit the largest issue. However, when the papers and other say that is is a "de-facto LRT" election it is not the case based on polling. A "de-facto LRT" election would be 60%+ as the primary...

You can either pay the capital dollars to build a station and a rental building with the goal of earning rent. Or sell the land in exchange for you not having to build a station. But not both. Governments are horrible at being a landlord. They build white elephants, can't manage them properly...

I think there is no love lost either way. The TTC actively avoids direct connections to GO/UP. If you look at Weston there is zero effort to get bus riders into the station. Same as Dundas. Same as almost every other GO station. Compare that to the rest of the GTA and it is very easy to...

My co-workers who drive it every day can confirm this. Without traffic it takes about 20 minutes. On average 45 minutes and on a bad day 1 hour. Not much different than many highway stretches in the GTA which I often drive. And unless you are working at the Co-operators in Guelph (right...

Hamilton municipal elections were not just about the LRT. And back in the day the similar can be said about the Red Hill. FALSE NEWS Many people looked at multiple issues including job creation, safety, environmental contamination, LRT, etc. And chose the one that was best suited.

Hwy 7 crawled 15 years ago. And now every bridge over the Grand is jammed for 3-4 hours in the morning and at night. There are a lot of commuters to/from KW that would disagree with your statement. I've driven both during rush hour and off-peak. At both times Hwy 7 is in greater need of a...

The subsidy per rider will be going up a lot now that real ridership counts can occur with Presto (vs the over-estimates and double counting of transfers that occurred in the past). And I hope the bargaining is re-designed (and legislated) by the Ontario government so that any settlement is...

Here's my theory. Every country has different types of power plants. Base vs Peak load plants. Plus renewables (wind & solar) which is totally random. Germany for example has most of their power Base load plants (40% coal, nuclear, hydro without large capacity reservoirs, etc). Plus a lot in...

One way would be to encourage landowners to replace the trees. But instead when you want to change them to a native species you have to pay for a report, pay a deposit to the city and then wait months and months until they give you an approval. Not worth it! Instead i'm waiting for mine to...

Specifically at Hwy 407 Subway there is a massive parking lot for everybody literally next door to the terminal. So the employees can either (1) pay for parking like any other TTC user or (2) take transit. Having dedicated parking lots where all the users of the station do not just shows the...

Why are they building an above-grade parking lot for employees right beside a BRT and subway? At VMC they are charging $12 per day. Have these employees either (1) take the subway or (2) pay for parking like the rest of us

This accident may have been hurt or helped with a taller barrier. It may have just caused similar damage but on a different side of the road. We will never know. You can always look at the damage it caused but you also have to look at the damage it might have caused if a different scenario...

Have you been on Keele between Steeles and 407? I think there may be 4 right hand turns for the entire stretch of construction (if that). I guess there's an objector to everything including HOV and bike lanes. Can't make everyone happy!

The GPS for Didi sucks. I get a lot of phone calls on where you need to be picked up. Too bad they kept their platform when they merged with Uber China. Plus you have to be careful with Didi. A lot of drivers share an account so you have to cancel when it's not the person in the picture.

Urban sprawl? Please do some research. 20,000 jobs (mostly commercial) and 6500 residents (not units...population). Plus 3 hotels. CF would not be involved if it was just for urban sprawl (not enough profit for them)

And when Toronto used to refuse to pay for GO? Should have the 905 Annexed the downtown core?

To be clear there is a underground river crossing Richmond. The civil engineers knew about it but the urban planners ignored their concerns when they first thought of tunneling. It is cost prohibitive and a flood risk to try and move this underground river. Money solves everything but...

That is correct. But the Liberals wanted to do all or nothing. I expect that the PC's will look at a more incremental approach. 1. Electrified RER on certain lines (Lakeshore East and West). 2. Use the older trains from Lakeshore to increase service on the other lines. 3. When/if the...

There is a lot of concrete with a layer of asphalt on top being installed right now. If you look in the burbs they use concrete at busy bus stops and then asphalt elsewhere (note that Mississauga has realized if you colour the bus-only areas red more people will obey the law but that would...