Gosh, I should log on to Discord more often, but UrbanToronto suits me better. :) As for highly insulting and inaccurate BS, I mean, "REM apologists," the "worst transit advocates," using the "same lame" arguments to defend "rail infrastructure vandalism"? Really? My understanding is that the...

Whenever you press VIA Rail apologists (actually, federal government/ARTM apologists - VIA is not to blame for this mess) - you get some things that are implied - or said outright - in their arguments. That the federal and provincial government, who paid $2.5 billion collectively for the...

Something is happening in Ottawa. Emphasis mine. The Ottawa Citizen: Frustrated commuters air grievances to Ottawa transit commission The Ottawa Citizen: 'It's not fair at all': City facing tough choices to shore up transit budget WTF, a 75% fare increase? And a drop to 10 minute headways...

"If elections were decided by popular vote, the majority would decide the election." Oh no, spare me the horror. States do not vote singularly for one party; it was something like 65/35 in California for the Democrats in 2020; by the same measure, Texas was 45/55 for the Republicans...

On the subway map, and branding, it's being advertised as "Line 6." Thinking of mode differences is probably going too deep into the transit advocacy side - people will see this as an extension of the Rapid Transit network ... unless we screw this up. I don't see why we should accept that...

If you have ten billion dollars to spare, anything's possible. Other people have speculated, and I agree, that it's more likely they cut the line at Doug Ford's Corruption Emporium Science Centre and instead run Ottawa/Seattle-style operations to the west, and the east gets the Finch...

The bigger problem than simply XYZ plan, is our complete inability to hold to any transport plan, whether that's Network 2011, Transit City, the mid 1980s RT plan, ALRT, or yes, the 1966 "balanced" plan that gave us the cancelled Spadina Expressway. We always can everything after building half a...

You have one very important omission: Ottawa calls its RT stations "O-Train station." Personally, I like the O-Train branding, and it makes sense given the separate modes the OLRT uses. Of the 8/15 cities, only Ottawa and Kitchener have sort-of intercity/rapid transit interfaces, and...

It's more likely that Ottawa doesn't get any intercity terminal at all, and services continue to disperse. I suspect we'll see west end services terminate at Bayshore or Pinecrest in a few years. A consequence of the total lack of leadership from provincial governments on intercity bus...

As a former Ottawan, I am sympathetic to the concern that the provincial government is showering the GTA in transit while ignoring the rest of the province. However, terms like "deserve" get thrown about, and as the Rob Ford saga showed us, this is the wrong way to approach this question...

The Central Bus Terminal was closed and demolished well after OLRT was planned and built. As for intercity bus, this is about the worst possible location for one, even if we consider the "intermodality." With optimal design, how many people are transferring between the bus and train network...

This betrays a deep unfamiliarity with Ottawa's urban form - Tremblay was, before COVID, the second least busy station on OLRT, the city's main E-W transit spine. From where, exactly, do you want this bus route to run? The nearby bus hubs which already have rapid transit service to the train...

I don't disagree, BUT, if we were to go this route: You'd need to restore the ROW. Definitely physically - there's been track removal - but maybe also legally, I'm not entirely sure. You need an OMSF, and it'd be hard to get one built between Queen and Old School. As always, where's the...

Russia's productivity is falling, but so is Ukraine's. The most recent concern seems to be their energy generating capacity, which is at half capacity compared to 2022. The question, I suppose, is whether Western support will be enough to last the AFU to defeat the Russians. Depending on the...

@crs1026 @Northern Light This has been a rabbithole of reading while I was abroad the past few weeks. Thanks for the responses!

Here's a translation from Federal Government to English. Federal government to announce and cancel the Canada Public Transit Fund From: No Housing, Deferred Infrastructure, and Sprawl Canada Background Since 2015, the Government of Canada has invested over $30 billion in more than 2,000...

This is something I've been thinking about for a while, both in UT posts and outside of it. Additionally, I've seen lots of allusions to this in many of our transport threads, so I thought I'd start a dedicated place to debate this. In the last few years, we've seen the cost of transit...

I don't know if it's plausible for Metrolinx to get the shovels in the ground today. But I would like to see an accounting of parking at each station, and a plan for future use to, say, the 2050s. The plans should include timeframes for developing, or not developing, Metrolinx-owned lots near...

You’re missing the point - the correction will be painful, and it will be more painful the longer we hold it off. A bit like an addiction. A correction would not have been a big deal in 2010, and not a big deal outside Vancouver in 2014, but we’ve made unbridled housing growth semi-official...

The right time to crash prices was five years ago, and the next best time is now. It's a Ponzi scheme, transferring costs from new buyers and renters to sellers (I'm not convinced that regular people actually benefit from the bubble, rather than having the perception of having benefits); you...