Recent content by ShonTron

TTC notice on January 22, 2025. It’s not even open yet and there’s signal issues!

Interestingly, the Greber Plan called for the replacement Union Station to be all the way out at Walkley Road outside the 1940s-era city limits. The freight terminal would have gone where the current station is located. I could see the temptation to but the Alto station around there (there's a...

Yeah, I don't see any viable case for the reuse of the old Ottawa Union Station for high speed rail, especially as it won't be a terminal station. Trains would have to reverse direction back out of the station (itself not a huge deal; high speed trains in Italy continuing through Roma Termini...

It’s a lot easier to tunnel through Central Montreal – especially Mount Royal – than it would be to tunnel under the USRC, which is a former lakebed. I don’t really see ALTO using a long tunnel to get to Union Station.

The corridors are wide enough not to encourage land speculation (in the hopes or fear of expropriation) yet narrow enough in places to get a sense of how a route could look like. It also makes it really clear that a downtown Toronto terminus – Union Station or proximate – is being planned...

Yeah. Michael Schabas can be arrogant and has more than once pulled stuff out of his ass to justify his ideas. But he has a lot of pull with the provincial government and Metrolinx, and I think his son is a VP there now.

That cut fence also provides the shortest walk to the streetcar and the 64 and 135 bus routes. It’s really bad how poorly Metrolinx figures out how to get people walking and cycling to its stations.

There are a number of possibilities. Until the 1990s, there were intercity buses going in all directions from Downtown Hamilton, including Hagersville and Simcoe, St. Catharines (via Highway 8 and the QEW), Welland, Brantford, Cambridge and Kitchener, and Guelph. Perhaps Flixbus is looking at a...

Future Mayor is working in Brampton these days!

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Indeed. Don't know how I did that!

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6God is taking a little holiday. In the meantime, keep this civil.

Doesn't exactly say "boutique hotel" here. More like flophouse.

Went by today and took photos.