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IIRC Mammoliti was an NDP MPP before he got on city council.

7 AM on a Sunday means that the very first train or two will be busy, but things should even out quickly. The peak hour will probably hit sometime after 10 AM.

On the topic of mobility, there will also be people who would much rather ride a surface-level streetcar than descend four storeys, ride one stop on a subway, then climb four storeys back out again.

It's not clear to me that a surface route competing with a subway is obviously and inevitably redundant. (Viz: the 19, the 97, the 94...) I do agree that 17-kilometre streetcar line which runs in mixed traffic for much of its length is an obvious problem, and that this problem becomes...

What's happened to transit advertising is the same thing that has happened to billboards and periodical advertising (in newspapers and magazines): over the last 20 years, marketers have shifted to online channels which offer much more targeted ads that are more effective at motivating action. In...

"It's a beautiful day out there." "Well it might SNOW tomorrow or be COLD later so let's just keep THAT in perspective."

At this point I'm starting to believe that HSR will use Doug Ford's 401 tunnel, with the station at the 407 subway stop.

My sense is that, if this service doesn't stop in Port Hope, four weird men are gonna hold their breath until they turn blue.

Two steps ahead of you.

Beijing South Station is a 24-platform intermodal hub designed for a capacity of 240 million passengers per year. In terms of passenger and circulation space, it is more than three times the size of (post-renovation) Toronto Union. I really don't think you can compare it to Guildwood.

That's an awful lot of text, no?

It's one thing to replace the map, another thing to replace the underlying LED mechanism. The LED system is modifiable, but this is skilled work best done when you're overhauling the cars. Whereas any schmuck with a stepladder and a screwdriver can replace the map.

There's more than one sort of optics, though. If Doug Ford wants lots of media attention at the event where he formally opens the line, he's not going to schedule it during a period when lots of people are travelling and ignoring the news. In this sense, I think you're dead on with December 21...

Well. We kind of do, seeing as how they're on day 56 of a 30-day process. https://www.timeanddate.com/date/durationresult.html?m1=10&d1=7&y1=2025&m2=&d2=&y2=&ti=on

I do wonder if vending machines mean the TTC is giving up on the Cedarvale newsstand. Given how retail leases usually work, and given how tight the margins are on subway newsstands, I have to imagine that, in an environment like Cedarvale (where there's only one retail unit), the tenant would...