I don't see any indication that it would be an non-stop express, but I get the desire to get off the 407 now that there's fare integration for most passengers. The section of Highway 7 between Kipling and Pine Valley can be brutal for traffic though, avoiding that was also a draw. I'll try to...

Interesting developments! St. Thomas bills itself as “The Railway City” despite the fact it lost almost all of its rail connections - at one time it had CP (Credit Valley), CN (Great Western/Grand Trunk), Michigan Central, Chesapeake & Ohio, and London & Port Stanley, with tracks leading out in...

It’s also well documented that a lot of anti-LGBT policies in African countries are funded and assisted by American evangelical organizations.

You mean third rail electrification? That’s not going to happen

Not a bad idea. You could even start it at Durham College and rely on GO and DRT routes there for onward connections to the GO stations, downtown, and even to York Region.

Adding more proper footbridges and underpasses is also key. This seems to be completely off the radar for GO/Metrolinx

Wasn’t much of the 174 recently upgraded along with the Orleans LRT extension?

Historical reasons. The Oshawa bus terminal opened in the 1970s and was originally managed by Gray Coach. There wasn’t even any GO train service to Oshawa until much later, and even then, it wasn’t until the 1990s that GO trains made off-peak service there. The Oshawa GO Station is in the...

We have a thread for this: https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/intercity-bus-services.26251/

The poorly written equivalent of the “any updates” in a projects forum. Be patient, a lot of people here do like posting useful content.

Yeah, early railways - especially resource or farm-to-market routes - were laid out efficiently and cost-effectively. This meant chasing bonuses from townships and towns eager for rail access, picking routes that avoided hills, lakes, and expensive bridges, minimizing cuts and embankments, and...

There are a number of issues on Wilson, and I used to take that bus corridor almost daily. It’s just not the 96 Wilson, but also the 165 Weston Road North, the 118 Thistle Down, the 119 Torbarrie, the 120 Calvington, and the 996 Express. That’s a lot of buses, often arriving in bunches and...

Im planning to go to Fort Erie if it’s a clear day. If it’s overcast, I’ll just enjoy the short period of darkness in Hamilton.

There was a track that ran twice a week between Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout. But Havelock? It only had the RDC to Peterborough and Toronto. Here’s a better map: https://seanmarshall.ca/2024/01/30/changing-tracks-passenger-rail-in-1980-and-2024/

Okay then, Highway 425 from the 401/403 split in Woodstock through Stratford, Fergus, Flesherton, Wasaga, Midland to Orillia next! Better start planning the 431 too from London through Tobermory and with a causeway to South Baymouth, Espanola, and Sudbury.

God, that’s a terrible map that gets a lot of things wrong.

Highway 419 between Guelph, Alliston, and Barrie: the quadruple bypass.

I agree with you there. A few more passing lanes in both directions are needed between Owen Sound and Shelburne as well; traffic can get really heavy.

Highway 10 already bypasses Orangeville pretty well, and it’s already four-laned. It’s going to be difficult to build a bypass of that bypass because of several conservation lands on both sides. It’s better to consolidate the intersections to reduce the number of traffic lights, and build direct...

The entire mall? I thought this was going to be a phased development.