Recent content by dimonpc

True story, no environment impact assessment, nobody cares if some houses need to be destroyed on the way and so on... I'm super excited about Ontario Lane, GO expansion and other projects. But building a rail network that is only 40km/h faster compare to what we have now and calling it the...

Moscow - Saint Petersburg has HSR since 2009, it takes 4 hours as of today, the speed is not higher than 200km/h usually with some short sections going 230-250 km/h. Sounds good to me, but not good enough apparently. Not sure exactly what are they doing in terms of tracks. But definitely getting...

An interesting fact. Russia - country with the most sanctions in the world, the country is in active war and very little possibilities of importing technologies. Guess what? They are building high speed rail between Moscow and Saint-Petersburg, 679 km will take 2 hours 19 minutes with locally...

College bike lanes are completed and looking nice:

The bike path was planned behind a new development on King and Douro - https://urbantoronto.ca/database/projects/1071-king-west.40226 In my understanding bike lanes supposed to be behind the building (first rendering) and connect to the railpath directly. But it looks like this building is not...

I certainly will. That's great, thank you in advance.

Biked all over the city the other day and want to share some of my thoughts. Adelaide St West - as you remember the bike lane was on the south side of the road, not protected, terrible asphalt quality and not safe to ride. Now they resurfaced the road, moved the bike lane to the north side...

My bad, I supposed to arrive at 11:33pm, not 10:30pm, train 669. So it took an hour and a half to detour. Apparently all trains last weekend were affected - https://www.viarail.ca/en/plan/train-schedules: TRAVEL ADVISORY Important Notice Due to maintenance work by the railway infrastructure...

Due to railway infrastructure maintenance by the infrastructure owner, our operations will be affected on August 12 and 13, 2023. For this reason, your train is expected to incur a significant delay upon arrival in Toronto. That was the reason given. We ended up going to Markham area, stopped...

Took a train from Montreal to Toronto yesterday. Instead of arriving around 10:30pm, we've arrived to Toronto at 1am. It's pretty ridiculous. I love trains and will keep taking them, but it's just embarrassing what kind of train system we have between 2 biggest and the best cities in Canada...

What's the actual floor count for these buildings? Urban Toronto says 70s, I've seen a condo for sale on 75th floor and some websites say it's 80 floors.

Does anybody know how many new Siemens trainsets have arrived? As of April it was just 4 and only one in service (Ottawa <-> Montreal), is that still the case? With this pace it will take years for all 32 trains to see in service... Was hoping to ride a new one this summer from Toronto, but it...

City Hall GreenP underground parking is right there with the entrance literally in front of the court house. It's a very big parking for more than 2000 cars, also one of the cheapest in downtown. I use it a lot and not a single time had any issues finding a spot.

It’s going to be a great addition to Toronto skyline