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There’s a whole series. Here’s the coronavirus one.

I think speeding is one of the issues, actually. There’s a lot of evidence that hitting a pedestrian at 30km/h is significantly less damaging than hitting them at 40km/h. Even the City of Toronto has finally recognized that, and has changed some of the numbers on its signs as a result. Big...

Disagree with you completely on cameras. They’re ubiquitous in Sydney and they work. When I drive there I know there’s a good chance I’ll be fined if I’m speeding, because of a camera not a cop. No jurisdiction has the money to deploy enough police to cause a widespread change in driver...

It looks like the City is cutting down mature trees. Why would they do that? Invasive species?

1. Cameras. New South Wales has huge numbers of red light cameras, speed cameras, average speed cameras, cameras monitoring bus lane compliance, and just implemented cameras using AI to determine if drivers are on their phones. Of course, one doesn’t see the dark plastic licence-obscuring...

They’re used in other places, but I wonder if they’d fail here. I don’t believe most Toronto drivers would be able to mentally process the complexity of a zig zag line, or would in any way alter their behaviour if they did understand. For example, we have lots of “speed limit” signs and they...

Agreed.

Those penalties strike me as ludicrously insufficient for doing 149 in a 50k zone.

Toronto has the remarkable ability to look worse as time passes.

No sentence ever written has combined Toronto with meticulous maintenance. Before now.

PEC wineries would benefit a lot from climate change. While the County has some great soils, the climate is marginal for Pinot Noir, with harsh winters and sometimes insufficiently long growing seasons for ripening. A longer season would also help C-S in Niagara, which is sometimes (often)...

https://www.thebeaverton.com/2020/03/ttc-adequate-for-first-time-in-40-years/

It looks nice, but I wonder about the experience of cities with similar climates to ours. Do they run snowplows over the grass? Are there any issues with the grass itself in winter months?

It would be a convenient support for more overhead wires. Because you can never have enough.

Your view appears to be the predominant one in Toronto. It certainly explains why Toronto is what it is. That it’s impossible to perform a data-driven economic analysis of any particular transit project, so we have to go with the dictates of populism, gut instincts, and cocktail napkin “plans”...

ML has determined that the benefit to cost ratio of SSE is in the 30’s. OK there are a lot of assumptions that go into the calculation, but this is so far from 100 that the only conclusion is that the project is a large value destroyer. There are a some non-economic arguments for SSE...

Hey, history does repeat itself! This will be a replay of the Trudeau Sr minority government from 1972 to 1974.

Yet another thing we’ll never see in Ontario. https://roadsafety.transport.nsw.gov.au/stayingsafe/mobilephones/technology.html

Don’t worry about Queen’s Quay. There’s a decent chance Enbridge will tear it up for a gas line.

De mortuis nil nisi bonum.