Recent content by micheal_can

... You are crazy... Seriously though, the route is neither straight or flat, or that wide.

The more and more I read the comments here and the various commentators elsewhere, it tells me that if we were building the Transcontinental Railway today, It would not happen! They would have stopped at Thunder Bay "cus we have ships". Tome, anything that is not true HSR will be a failure.

I knew there would be push back. I didn't expect as much, but that is partly due to the southern option was included. I am not surprised about the push from the 401 corridor pushing for something there instead.

All stations are within a built up area of all the places it stops. Some of these areas have built some active transportation. The token 2 rings may one day be well used. They will be especially used if the train is used like some say, like a hotel.They go down on one and come back that same...

I rode from Callander to North Bay for work every day, in winter too. And when I was working till 9pm, guess what I did? I rode to and from work. Very true that it wont be common, but that does not mean that there won't be people doing it.

TBH, part of me stating what I did was to take what they said about old stations to show how out of touch it is.

Ah. /s An old station cannot have modern facilities /s

I was being sarcastic. Sometimes when some people post about things like rural/smaller town areas, it is almost like they do not know what the area is about.

I am guessing it would be the same at somewhere like Union. Why would anyone leave their bike there?

The goal of ALTO should be a pricing, schedule and speed that allows everyone who uses all existing modes to have another choice that could be better in some ways than the other. With the way airlines are going, they have become uncomfortable for all but the highest fares. So, would you rather...

If today the TTC became free, it would create more problems than it would solve. Lets start that every transit vehicle that is not a crush load would be at crush load. We have systems built around fares. We would need a massive investment before fares became zero. I am not advocating for or...

This is not whether Via's fares are too high or not. This is more of what it should look like when it opens. Besides, what do you care, you just stated it is faster to fly.

Pricing will always be a challenge especially from those that are upset that they are "paying for it" in taxes and such.

I wouldn't go that far... however, if the goal was to break Canada from the car being king, removing all fares on all public transit would do that. Pricing for ALTO should be slightly higher than Via and slightly lower than a flight.

If that is the case, close Union Station as there is no way it can have what is needed in this day and age for accessibility, safety, security, train information, etc. After all, it was built in 1927, or 99 years ago. I would argue that they should have built bike lockers.This station is...