Thanks Andy Takagi and colleagues: "Why Union Station may not be a stop on Canada’s new high-speed rail line" https://www.thestar.com/gift-redeem?t=499792d6-1a49-4593-88fc-09907240aac4

Great pics! I've also visited the area and taken a peek through the open gates, and it seemed to me as if these bridges were not very high off the ground, compared to how high the new bridges at Eastern, Dundas and Logan are. Did you have the same impression? Maybe the Broadview extension...

Enjoying the jokes but truthfully: who gets compensated for expropriations, and by how much, is governed by law, including dispute processes. This article provides an overview of the expropriation, compensation and dispute processes, including exceptional rules just for Alto...

That's partly what the consultation and site visits are for, to determine the final route. Others in this forum have well-explained the catch 22s of early public consultations. Anyway, don't take it from me, take it from Renfrew County's Reeve Peter Emon, when the council was recently asked to...

It's as if that particular farmer thought the compensation was for pain and suffering rather than time and damage. Anyway, two additional stories on the farming situation. First, the National Farmers Union is calling to cancel Alto. It has published a long statement explaining its position...

Somebody needs to start supporting this project loudly and publicly, in the places between Ottawa and Montreal. Here's what can happen when that isn't done properly. (Don't worry, I won't flood the forum with posts every time a town opposes Alto. Just pointing out a recent and remarkable...

Not sure where to put these pictures so feel free to move. First, no obvious progress on the Riverdale ramp since the last pics in this thread, although there were two workers on site. Second, hope they plan to raise the level of the trail before it gets paved. See if you can spot the issue...

Hopefully that map was not final for some of the stations. By way of further thinking: - the stop at King/Bathurst should be called Fort York or something more unique than King West - the stop at Spadina/Queen should be called Queen West because that's the name of the neighbourhood - East...

There's a dog park between Richmond and Adelaide on the east side of Power. The only way to access it is to cross a street. I took the pics last Friday at evening rush hour. It was crowded, chaotic and unsafe. It was immediately obvious that better traffic facilities are needed for the way...

We're all entitled to our opinions. The city's opinion, in approving these changes, was: On Sunday May 19, 2019, a pedestrian was struck crossing Adelaide Street East at Power Street while making their way to the nearby dog park. Residents have identified ongoing road safety issues at Power...

Some pics of recent progress

Agreed, it's going to be great. Between now and then, of course, is the demolition of the DVP-Gardiner highway ramps and construction of the new ones. As much as I would like a reopening while that work is ongoing, it probably would be quite a bit safer to wait.

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One of the truly interesting things about the Don Valley trail is that it is one of the few places in the city of Toronto where people don't follow the rules. The East Don Trail was built in part because people were already using the area when they weren't supposed to be. During the...

Some more pictures from around Adelaide, Power and Richmond. What a nightmare at rush hour! Anyway, here's Power looking south from Richmond: Here's Richmond, looking west from Power

There's a new comment in the Globe calling for Alto to be cancelled. I looked up the author and found this individual to have a consistent, published opposition to high-speed rail. Interestingly, one of this person's articles published 17 years ago contains a list of previous cost estimates...

Remember the Northlander was reinstated partly to support resource development, like new mines in the Ring of Fire. Such development would create new demand for north-south travel connections including for labour (the mines themselves would presumably be fly-in-fly-out). If the new demand...

I hope that this train is a success, that the economy class is kept affordable, and that they do add a business class as well as eventually a sleeper option, each with less of a subsidy than the economy class. Anyway, at least one person has penned an opinion piece calling to extend it...

I will never get over how the Barrie line, which has the potential to relieve some of the most congested highways in the province, currently looks like something the neighbourhood parents built in a backyard alleyway for a child's birthday party.

One of the most surprising things to me about the opposition to Alto is people who want it slower. It comes up in article after article from various different locations. For a recent example: “Personally, I would like to see high-frequency rail that allows land crossings and doesn’t have huge...