Recent content by Dan416

I want to like this but there’s not a single section that I drive on frequently. Why are they doing this so piecemeal?

I would definitely take this as an opportunity to name the station what it should have been named to begin with, Steeles West, just as you say. To me, any other name would be unsatisfactory. "The Village at Black Creek" would be a monstrosity of a name worse than "Vaughan Metropolitan Centre".

I'm at Hurontario and Elm so the western edge of MCC is a bit of a walk for me. Hurontario is one of the most important streets in Mississauga, and it's not very urban all things considered. A lot of buildings don't actually front onto Hurontario (I noticed this when I was curious what the...

I always take train 668 on a Wednesday so I guess that's why I haven't seen it yet.

I usually take trains 668 and 69. How come they never use the new trains?

Confederation will feel more urban if/when the Hurontario LRT runs down it for the city centre loop. It may feel like a proper urban street! Maybe

People will literally complain about everything.

Whaaat? That's part of its character. I'm not sure but the blackened exterior might be due to the fire a hundred years ago.

Do city councils have the same kind of rules as parliament, where you can't be sued for the things you say?

Of course corporations are going to maximize their profits. But the fact that the railways sell off their ROWs and then governments dismantle them is on the governments, not the railways. The first thing these governments do is tear up the tracks and build trails. There is zero foresight...

Why don't Amtrak and VIA just cooperate on procuring their new fleets? Are there any major differences between their long distance fleets that would prevent them from working together (other than political considerations).

At least there’s a pedestrian connection to the platform at Kipling.

I would guess the main thing is that VIA is such a small player, and if Amtrak is ordering basically the same thing soon, then it makes sense for them to piggyback off Amtrak’s larger order, even if it means we get ours later.

I mean he's not wrong. It seems transit decisions are made according to who whines the loudest.

It is still a question mark as to why. So people want to live next to a hospital and a second-tier mall? I just don't see Erin Mills or Eglinton becoming pedestrian-oriented streets, well, ever. And there's like not really any secondary roads around them to develop a proper street grid. These...