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It was designed for 12km/h, though I don't know if it ever operated that fast, and a standard walkway is under 3km/h. So yes, it was considerably faster.

Yep, removed in 2020. It was the only fast walkway that TKE sold. Beltways has a prototype of a 16km/h walkway at Cincinnati airport. It's more like a series of short contiguous independent conveyor belts (common in factories) than the single large walkways we're used to. Its big selling point...

I didn't mean to imply it was easy for Porter financially; as you point out they're hamstrung by past decisions like equipment purchases. I just meant the fares they charge at YHM are not actually all that attractive for consumers; not enough for anyone west of Mississauga to go to that airport.

Porters YHM prices don't seem rock bottom; economies of scale are lower but so are their fees. For the handful of April flights I checked, Flair Airlines from Pearson is within $50 for the same dates (sometimes less, sometimes more). Both charge for carry-on baggage.

It helps blind people find the door. The new Line 2 trains will likely have the same feature.

Sleep Country has closed and is boarded up, but not in a way I would expect for demolition. Running Room is closing March 26th. Something changing here but it's not clear what that is. Perhaps building out a sales centre?

TRBOT also argues that mobility is one of the reasons Toronto waterfront has so many visitors, and expects even noisy mobility improvements like Jets and Hovercraft would increase that number. Keep in mind "Waterfront" for their numbers includes CN Tower, Aquarium, Scotiabank Arena, and Skydome...

Isn't that one of the primary motivations to allow jets? An E195 at full range can reach markets well beyond Ottawa/Montreal like Bogota, Lisbon, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.

Paris Nord Villepinte is a good example of a convention centre, larger than what Ford is considering, near the airport and 30m by RER B to downtown

Metrolinx owns that corridor so they're all GO lights.

I very much doubt is Chow's precedence of rejecting the power will be honoured by future mayors. Either the power shouldn't exist, or it should be used to achieve the goals of the electorate and they will be judged in future elections.

Agreed. Sometimes leadership needs to acknowledge when they made a mistake and promising not to use strong mayor powers when they benefit the city as a whole was a mistake. It's not undemocratic to use them, but it is democracy at a different scale; they mayor is still elected and accountable to...

Fascinating. They have a taxpayer approved 6-mile underground extension to downtown San Jose currently under construction with an opening date of 2036. I expect the added operating funding will be approved but extending a struggling system seems counter-intuitive.

Ironically, allowing Jets at YTZ may constrain capacity for Porter as I expect 80 to 120 slots per day will be taken by business jets that currently go to Pearson [many used Buttonville before that]. That's about half of YTZs current capacity. It'll be interesting to see what other improvements...

The most viable lake infill to me seems like the westward extension of Ontario Place. This area is shallow (13 to 20m) and has already been manipulated for the Pan Am games.