Doug Ford doesn't care about data or evidence or facts. He cares about targeting people he doesn't like and punishing them. He is indeed a scumbag.

All of the previous HSR plans that I'm aware of went through Ottawa. None of them skipped it. Bypassing the third busiest trip generator on the corridor to save 40ish km never made sense. Even if our HSR would cost the same per km as California, that's still assuming the whole route would be...

The population density of the Windsor-Quebec Corridor is on par with countries like France and Spain. Obviously the overall population is lower so we'll never have an HSR system as extensive as those countries. There's a lot of talk of full high speed and future governments downsizing a bloated...

Yes, by putting them on major streets where the destinations are, separating them from traffic, and building protected intersections. Oh wait...

My grandpa drove from Timmins to Windsor in 2 hours back in the 30s before the roads were paved. In a Model T!

Oh I'm fully aware of the rationale for the term "high frequency rail". I'm just saying that I view the name in the same way as "downtown relief line" for example. The finished line was never going to be referred to that way, it was just a working title during the planning phases of the project...

Makes sense. HFR always struck me as a placeholder, more of a description than a name. And a flawed one at that, since basically all high speed rail lines are also high frequency. The distinction between HFR and HSR was always a bit awkward. If the proposal has evolved to include high speed...

It's worth mentioning that commuting only tells part of the story. Things like running errands and general getting from A to B are probably the majority of trips. I for one never commute to work on a bike but I am a regular Bikeshare user.

Saying we shouldn't have provoked Doug Ford is like telling a woman she shouldn't have provoked her abusive husband. Given the premier's grievance-based governance and archaic views on transportation, it was only a matter of time before he lashed out at bike lanes. All of those cities are...

If all federally funded infrastructure projects were held to this standard there would be no federally funded infrastructure projects.

Except for being able to see outside on outdoor sections, or being able to see the station the train is entering.

You're saying this like it's a bad thing. More people doesn't necessarily mean more cars on the streets. Not in a city that's designed properly anyway.

Nobody has ever built an underground highway this long.

I wouldn't compare the two. The Wynne plan for HSR to London (which was 250 km/h as I recall) was a lot more modest than the Ford tunnel and would have been a fraction of the cost at $11 billion. If the HFR line to Quebec actually goes ahead it's pretty likely that a future phase will be some...

Most road tunnels are built out of geographic necessity. They cross mountains or waterways or city cores. The 401 corridor has none of these things. Not to mention that there are no road tunnels of this length anywhere in the world. Not even close. The idea of decking the 401 has been mentioned...

The difference has been explained to you before. CP gets a decrepit, barely usable rail line upgraded and modernized so it clearly benefits from an arrangement that would hand over control to a passenger rail operator. That's a clear and fundamental difference from the CN mainline that Via...

Yes that's why I said "as much as possible". While the HFR route does appear to leave some areas subject to freight sharing, those areas are vastly reduced and that should lead to a significant improvement to scheduling and reliability. But we still don't have a winning bidder or detailed plans...

This actually lines up pretty well with my experience of Rome. While it has a good regional rail network the metro is underdeveloped. It has virtually no cycling infrastructure, narrow sidewalks in a lot of places, and cars are squeezed into every spare inch of space.

The VIA Fast route brings us right back to the main problem that HFR was created to fix: dealing with non-cooperative freight railways that the federal government refuses to stand up to. If CN and CP aren't interested in fundamentally reshaping their core operations then Via Fast is a non...