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    Roads: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Highway 410 (MTO, U/C, Planned)

    We're supposed to see a "Southwestern Ontario Transportation Plan to be released in fall 2019", so I'm assuming anything west of MIlton will be included in there. This government hasn't updated the southern/northern highway improvement plans since taking office, so who knows what their actual...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Could the just do an overpass at west end from Beverly to Hull and close Scarboro? The creek doesn't allow much change in the immediate vicinity.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    ML owns no parking lots in Kitchener DT. The Region owns a lot about 5 minutes walk from the station on the future transit hub property that it allows free parking (supposed to be before 7am, but the machine was in a constant state of disrepair the last I checked)
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    There'd need to be an express bus from Bramalea to Union to make the 30 running on weekends practical. The 25-21 works fine for the most part, although you need to get up to the universities to catch the express to make travel times reasonable.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    When commuting between Kitchener and Union, internet access is part of your survival toolkit. Example, one of the cold days last winter where the train was delayed 2 hours, I watched youtube via tether. If I didn't have a decent amount of data, that might not have been possible. Or to do...
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    Roads: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Highway 410 (MTO, U/C, Planned)

    For now, the new eb configuration is working wonders on keeping traffic moving. Haven'thad to slow to less than 80 in the past week, whereas before traffic was backed up to Sportworld drive during peak and generally slow moving the rest of the day. As of yesterday morning, no new westbound...
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    Roads: Roundabouts

    Example of painted roundabout in England: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JznfL8R6YZqi1pq99 Only the one direction has a median at the entry point.
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    Roads: Highway 401 Widening - Highway 8 to Highway 410 (MTO, U/C, Planned)

    The top layer of asphalt is going down on the stretch of 401 between 8 and Hespeler. There's also looking to be some lane configuration changes happening tomorrow night on the eastbound flyover/onramp from 8 to 401 with a full closure scheduled.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I've taken the 540 and 605 from Kitchener and there's a reasonable number of people on both. I usually took the 1535 from Union and a significant number of people rode to the end. Maybe 50-100?
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    Waterloo Region Transit Developments (ION LRT, new terminal, GRT buses)

    Latest reports have it at over $3b investment along the line so far with more on the works. From that perspective, ION is already successful.
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    Toronto Toronto | Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    For me, it's anxiety about missing the train. Ridiculous, I know, but I do the same for flights, bus, boats, etc. If I'm in line, it's much harder to miss than if I were sitting off to the side somewhere.
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    Waterloo Region Transit Developments (ION LRT, new terminal, GRT buses)

    This schedule is for summer when frequencies and usage are less. It will be more frequent starting in September.
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    Waterloo Region Transit Developments (ION LRT, new terminal, GRT buses)

    There's a new flex route that serves Freeport (903, I believe) from Fairview mall. It's all that's needed at the moment.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Granted, 43m for the hub is coming from the province (*pending likely clawbacks due to governmental stupidity)
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    Blinding sun, mist, light rain, snow, strong winds, fog, in the rain at night, driving on a spare tire to the next exit - all legitimate reasons, in my opinion.
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    I don't think speed cameras for too slow would be useful. There are many legitimate reasons to be going slow and you shouldn't penalize people for expressing their right to be cautious (when circumstances merit.)
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    Hawaii has a maximum speed limit of 55, although in many cases, road geometry allows for much less (eg. Hana highway on Maui)
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    CBC suggested that there was an accident that closed the express lanes around Weston
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    Toronto Pearson International Airport

    And the Boston Air Canada experience left much to be desired in comparison. I was there Thursday evening when a few flights were delayed leaving about 6 planes worth of people in a space designed for maybe 2-3 planes worth. Pearson is great in comparison.
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    Waterloo Region Transit Developments (ION LRT, new terminal, GRT buses)

    There's a new express bus route being routed down King through Preston starting this fall. Stage 2 LRT goes through Preston (although the recommended route/stop is slightly contentious.

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