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No photos, but shoring and excavation well underway.

No recent photos, but excavation for foundation, shoring etc well underway.

In Bronte today…..destruction well underway as site clearance has been ongoing for a week or so, but now they are working on removal of the existing frontages. I have some photos and will attach when I find them.

Travelling eastbound on the QEW today….paving and roadbed preparation continues on the westbound and eastbound sides of the Mississauga Road underpass. Further decking appears to have been poured on the Credit River Bridge, but today they were also using those very large backhoe mounted concrete...

And in honour of your country, which reminds me a lot of this country, this was my first visit outside of the months Dec through March. What a difference!!! I gather the weather has been extraordinary for this time of the year, and for the past week - sunny and warmish - but no matter, it was...

Its a nice, easy and frequent system to ride. With priority at the lights, which is really an advantage over Toronto. On narrower streets, you encounter the same issues at lights. but the car volumes are lesser to begin with. On wider streets, most of the lines are physically separated from the...

Not sure where to put this but here seems most appropriate to, start with. I am in Helsinki for a few days, the weather is gorgeous, and I have some time of my own. Usually I am here in winter, it’s cold ,frigid, dark and snowy. This Helsinki is a bit of a revelation. So a few observations...

Drum is spot on. Transit Priority in Toronto is the single largest issue, and if implemented, would save time on all at grade lines, regardless of whether the top speed exceeds 60 kmh or not.

I look forward to a sketch and then any explanation as to why either of CPKC or CN would want to buy into this? And some overview of how the port will be serviced? Perhaps VIA and EXo might want to consider building or augmenting to the existing trackage to improve services?

Thank you.This is VERY interesting. From an ag perspective, apparently Ontario scores well down the list of provinces to work with, but regardless, this changes thinking on ‘traditional’ solar arrays. Very interesting indeed.

Do you mind telling us (me) a bit more about ‘bifacial vertical mounted solar’? The information re Australia is also very interesting. Are there any specific reasons for this success?

Having been to Poland, I would completely agree with you, in regards to the country on a whole, for the most part. But compare with Dresden (for instance), which remains a city with challenges. In any industrialized city you can and will find areas that leave something to be desired, and there...

I was on the east bound QEW today for the first time in a while. The eastbound approaches to the last rebuilt section of the Mississauga Road Bridge are being graded and repaved. The East bound approaches to the older section of the Credit River Bridge are a beehive of activity, with staging...

Marcus Gee posted an article in the Globe and Mail entitled “
Europe’s urban advantage leaves Canada in the shade”. It’s an opinion piece again. Although comparing Toronto to any other city is never an apples to apples comparison, there are certainly questions that can be asked, and we often ask...

I’ll post this here as I am not sure we have an Amtrak Canada thread. At breakfast in Montreal this morning I was told the Amtrak has cancelled the Adirondack for a month or so. Apparently it will run into upstate NY and stop. No one seemed to have any ready details as to why or how long. Or the...

I need to work on my sense of humour, it’s obviously not working.

Not sure if this is inspiration or not….Montreal Fire Fighters struggle to move an illegally parked Amazon Van so they can get out of the station and get to the call. The driver, when he shows, could care less and flips them the bird….good show Amazon.

Back to the LCBO model of my childhood. FIll out the slip of paper with the name and registration number from the long displays of product, hand over to the LCBO employee who retrieves the product from behind a counter, slips it into the brown paper bag, hands over the bag and you slink out into...

Other library systems in the GTA also make use of this very good app, and the list of titles is large and diverse, encouraging long bouts of physical inactivity while reading, when productivity is called for!

Several organizations within Canada and the USA (and Internationally) have been documenting truck driver shortages currently and projected. Wage issues seem harder to document - there have been changes in the USA re overtime, and Canadian reports continue to document the struggles to retain...