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Good question. I see this a lot on buses. There seem to be 2 ways to make a shift change: 1. At some obscure intersection. I've seen...

You are correct, though sodium will work its way into the low end of the market for short range vehicles. Really, sodium will be a small...

REM is not LRT despite what the locals call it. Or, at least not what is considered LRT in the Toronto context. To me LRT is typically...

Proper treatments for Yonge, Front, Queen, King, etc. would involve fewer parking and vehicular lanes. Ford has mused about removing...

Transit advocates in Toronto have an odd desire to "convert" existing mass transit lines to something higher capacity. This would be...

Protecting 50 homeowners is madness. Expropriate with huge premiums to market value and land bank for future development.

This will probably need to wait until after the Ford era, sadly.

Their MPs are willing to exercise some independence partly because many will likely never make it to cabinet but they are not as utterly...

I see speculation that this might be a ploy to get Trump to prioritize DDG(X), by making it bigger (on paper) adding some useless WWII...

He's trying to cement his position as worst president in recent history.

We can only hope that US defense procurement is slow enough that these never make it off the drawing board before Trump dies, leaves...

Wondering if we should be importing Chinese BEV buses... they seem to have deployed a lot of them.

Why does GO need bilevel EMUs? Frequency please...

My centre-right leaning brother likes Chow. Says she’s boring and competent. He’s noticed improvements in the city in things he cares...