Recent content by lead82

Why does the media still think Tory will run next year? He’s past his best before date and unlikely to run given the previous embarrassing scandal with his EA. It would be interesting to see Chow v Bradford.

So how many train sets with ONR buy? If they only need one train to operate, I would imagine we bought like 2-3 sets from Siemens for spares and backups?

The fix is quite easy - no idling at stops for 2-3 mins for no reason and true signal priority meaning that. The train should never stop at a red light - that should be the goal but this is Toronto, so not holding my breath.

Putting aside the idiocy of erasing history with renaming stations, what I don’t understand is why TMU is just listed as the abbreviation but VMC is listed fully as Vaughan Metropolitan Centre on the map and station name. Surely if we are going to rename a central station with such high usage we...

Having riding Line 6 today, my ride averaged about 12.4km/hr - 50mins to ride each way on a 10.3km route. Not vastly different from Spadina.

Never. LA county is bigger population than all of Ontario. Toronto will Never get there as we don’t have the ECONOMY of LA to support such massive growth.

This will be a landmark building for the area. I just wish they used different colour for the exterior cladding. The blue/grey is so bland. It seems like the default colours for this city and no one dares to go bold with anything else, except maybe white or black. Where are the greens, the reds...

I took the family there yesterday. The air show was great, especially the Snowbirds. The rides were meh and the line ups were way too long and the price of rides and admission and food was extortionate. Everything was like $17-20! Only pizza was still ok at $7/slice. Water or pop was $5. The...

It still lower for now but because the city has not made this permanent with beautification and the investments needed there is a huge risk this can be easily undone with a stroke of a pen.

This can be fully declared a failure. Mark my words - Toronto council will return King to its former glory - to be fully jammed like all other streets. Might as well remove the jersey barriers and the confusing mandatory right turns as no one follows them anymore especially with all the downtown...

Toronto is run like a small town. It’s an overgrown small town with myopic council and powers that simply don’t care to invest in such things. The public doesn’t care and we have bigger economic and social issues to deal with than build fancy stadiums. The Skydome would have been a better...

Traffic is a symptom of a poorly designed city that’s way too reliant on the car to get around. Downtown Markham, which is Remingtons development is be try poorly done. Just as a key example is that transit services are awful and distances are way too far to walk to anything. Here are 3 problems...

Montreal just does things better. It’s metro feels like a true big city subway system that has design and thought put into it. The GO/Metrolinx/TTC could learn so much about the basics like wayfinding from Montreal. It’s amazing to see how backwards we are as a city. It just feels like Toronto...

Here is an example and citation from Sweden: Src: https://www.gisreportsonline.com/r/sweden-immigrants-crisis/ The core issue is lack of integration of a large number of immigrant groups, which is creating a large spike in crime - “Sweden has one of the highest gun death rates per capita of...

Le Pen will get elected as Macron is a sitting duck President. France and most of Europe has become a refugee dump and in smaller countries like Belgium the refugees and immigrants are becoming the majority and that’s essentially cultural and eventually population extinction of a native...