Italy has similar car ownership as Canada too, IIRC. That just goes to show that even though car ownership is brought up a lot in these kinds of discussions, it's a pretty poor metric for determining car dependence, transit or cycling usage, or walkability. In a healthy city people who own cars...

Under the Liberals there was funding and/or construction for a lot of major projects, including Eglinton, Vaughan extension, Scarborough extension, GO expansion early work, Sheppard LRT, etc. The DRL may not have been funded but it had a lot of momentum and detailed planning work, including for...

Arguably. But it's also true that most of the transit projects under Ford have been continuations or variations of those started before he was elected, such as GO expansion, the Ontario Line, and the Crosstown for example. While I'll give credit to Ford for not cancelling them, I also give...

This guy cracks me up with his "studies". 🤣 Their jobs. You can bike effectively in the winter when bike paths are separated from traffic and they're ploughed after it snows. If subarctic Finns can bike effectively in the winter than so can Canadians in a relatively temperate city like...

You were talking about Kipling. Islington is not one street over from Kipling. A bike lane on one street is useless to someone trying to get to work on the other. What do you base your prediction of zero use on, one of your so called studies?

Industrial areas can and should be made safe to get around on a bike.

I knew that Ottawa was ahead of the curve with protected intersections but I was surprised that they have that many. Props to Ottawa then. We really need updated provincial standards for cycling infrastructure. Too many municipalities are still designing new bike infrastructure as lines of...

Cycle tracks that are wide enough to fit a car need to have bollards or similar barriers at intersections so that people don't unwittingly drive in them.

This is why I live in an older building. The amenities in new buildings just aren't worth the cramped living space and useless kitchens.

These numbers show that GO Transit has 979 of the 1510 bilevel coaches currently in operation. That's 65% of the total. More than all other operators combined and it's not even close. The market for that many used coaches is non-existent.

This City of Ottawa produced video is a great introduction to the concept.

And the second.

The City's guideline is for a minimum 15% of units to be 2 bedrooms and 10% 3 bedrooms and it does typically achieve that. The size of those 2 and 3 bedroom units is another story.

Ridership went from 3.8 million in 2014 to 5 million in 2019. That's a 32% increase in 5 years. Via Rail was on a significant growth trajectory before the pandemic got in the way.

The Windsor-Quebec corridor has well over 20 million people at this point. That's more than a lot of European countries including Austria, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Greece, Denmark, etc., all of which have highly developed rail networks. The lack of European solutions here isn't because...

Oh that's good to know, I hadn't noticed them before. We're slowly dismantling the silos between agencies. I was just saying that it can be done either way - the same screens or separate. Putting them on the same screens can work just fine. The ones in Milan have 20 departures from multiple...

I don't think it would be horrendous at all. It would be very useful for someone going from, say, Ottawa to Port Credit, a trip that would include both systems. As GO expands (and, optimistically, Via too), these types of mulit-agency trips are only going to get more common. Most train stations...

Well done.