This is why I wonder if Ottawa's station could use a second tunnel (or a pedestrian bridge) linking the platforms. You could keep the existing tunnel for "Departures" (EDIT: I originally said arrivals, I meant departures), and then direct people to exit towards a new tunnel linked to the LRT...

If we assume that the high speed rail station will be at Tremblay, do you think they'll keep the existing station building? I used to live in Ottawa, and there are many things I like about the current building. It's very light-filled and open concept. The LRT makes getting downtown easy, (and...

There's also a small outside advocacy group I ran across called Alberta Regional Rail which has some better graphics. It's not a government source, so the actual plans are likely different, but it wouldn't shock me if it had loosely inspired some of the province's plans. There are suggestions...

If you want to fix that curve at Lawrence, perhaps you could re-align the tracks south of Lawrence a few metres to the east instead? I was thinking it might be easier to expropriate a 5-10 metre wide sliver from the yard of the apartment building south of Lawrence, east of the tracks? There's...

The bus that I would argue for would be a UTM > Dundas/Mavis > Queensway/Mavis > Mississauga Hospital&LRT > Sherway route. You wouldn't have to build any bridges over the river for that. I don't even mean as an express route, even a regular route would do, since there are no buses along most of...

I meant that the money spent on the parking garages could have been contributed towards the $1 billion the feds have said it will take to expand service to Milton by upgrading CP's line. Edit: I want to note that that I'm not suggesting the parking garages cost anywhere near $1 billion to...

I like parking garages too, and I agree with you about the potential for housing development. However, I'd note that the cost of building them can take away from improving service to a station. Cooksville GO and Erindale GO on the Milton line both had parking garages built in the last decade...

The reason to keep it I can see would be for people who plan on using Line 5 when it opens. Anyone traveling by bus would have to switch twice without it, once to the Scarborough extension, and again to Line 5. If you keep the busway open, you'd save the hassle of an extra transfer. That's...

For those curious, the Ontario government maintains an interactive map of Crown land in the province. I took a screenshot. The grey is private land with Crown land in yellow and orange. Peterborough is just out of sight in the bottom left corner. It looks like you'd have to take a much more...

Hwy. 7 has a very wide shoulder for a stretch between Peterborough and Norwood ON, probably intended for just such a freeway twinning, but I wonder if it could be used for HSR instead. It would reduce the amount of farmland you'd have to expropriate because east of Norwood is mostly forest.

Ah, I see what you mean. My apologies.

This is what I don't understand. The 407 corridor stretches all the way across the city from Milton to Pickering, right? Couldn't you just build a purely CP bypass along the 407 from Milton to Pickering, maybe with a couple GO tracks added on too, and avoid the York subdivision entirely? I mean...