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When has anyone ever used the word "deserve" in the context of Ottawa? The only thing Ottawa "deserves" is a rail system that doesn't break down every 2 months. There have been talks about these things in the context of Central Ottawa and Nepean, but Carling west of Lincoln Fields towards...

I think you'd be surprised...

FWIW This station is already almost 6 years old, so I don't think there's anything wrong with doing some maintenance to some of the infrastructure. Not to mention that the stations took time to build, some of the piping or whatever that they're replacing is likely much older, maybe 8 years if...

What I think his rationale is is that since the government shouldn't be expected to make a profit and have to pay for services out of pocket, then its justified that the government pays for any and all transit. The fact that busses are far more cost effective than trains doesn't matter when...

Ah yes, Winter, because rail lines totally don't run into the same problem during the winter affecting their reliability and requiring closures. That definitely does not happen. This is before we mention the fact that these towns aren't exactly 15m communities, in many cases you're still going...

Sounds like you're someone who has a pretty in depth understanding of everything the government funds. Good job being 10x more politically aware than the majority of rural farm dwellers. Ok then please highlight a realistic situation that happens often enough for billions of dollars of rail...

Well no duh. Believe it or not, if you ask someone to choose between getting money or supporting some thing they have no idea what it is or what its qualities are, they'll choose the former. Hypothetically, if I came up to you and asked you whether you want $1000, or you want that money to be...

FWIW, Maricopa is considered to effectively be Phoenix' Amtrak Station - with a shuttle bus offered by Amtrak to get people to downtown Phoenix from Maricopa. As such, in a very technical way you could argue that Phoenix is served by an Amtrak station. In a way its similar to the setup in San...

I'm not 100% sure on the YNSE, I think it is? The remaining 3 are, shovels are quite literally in the ground for all of them. I'm struggling to understand where you're even leading with this, are you trying to imply that you think that projects like the YNSE are empty promises that Ford will...

This is a weird hill to stand on. Many of the projects championed by Ford were funded by Ford. Sure they were worked on in some form by the Liberals, but its hard to name a project that wasn't looked in some form by the Liberals. They were the champions of creating massive lists of projects that...

it depends, if you live at Lawrence and Warden, a good argument could be made to take the bus down to Eglinton, and transfer to Line 5 west to Yonge. That is, assuming Line 5 does its job as Rapid Transit properly...

Again, nothing stopping from having the El go underground for this station, and we're still dealing with the limitations of the undergroud box that was built alongside the TYSSE.

It was built with it in mind in the sense that they allocated room for where to put the LRT platforms, what they didn't do was actually design a convenient transfer. Its been a while since I saw the schematic so I might be misremembering some details but the subway platforms are situated north...

I'm not exactly in favour of a Finch West El, but for what its worth there's nothing precluding Finch West from being an underground station, then going elevated via a portal (odds are that's how it would be built). This is before we bring up just how bad the transfer at Finch West is planned to...

I agree it could take far less time to build, however I doubt that its even possible to speed it up at this point. Part of the problem is Metrolinx' 2 stage approach to subway building, where we first tender out the contract for the tunneling, and only after the tunneling is almost done do we...

This is called "Anecdotal Evidence", and it is useless because we can each share our own. Precovid the Subway was overcrowded during rush hours, and even today whenever I use the subway during rush hours, I find the subway to be standing room only (not sardine cans, but far from "nobody uses...

Here's the thing, to this day I can't find anything that backs this claim up. From my knowledge the TTC and the City have never actually properly checked whether or not its possible.

What does this have anything to do with what I said?

Everything I'm about to say is a massive oversimplification so bear with me, but in general - latitude doesn't mean much when it comes to temperature outside of very large macro scale trends. London is north of Calgary, yet it has the climate of Vancouver (this is before we bring up how cities...

What most likely happened is they announced the changes likely from an increased budget, the contractor came back to them and said "hey wait a minute, we do not have manpower to actually follow through with this, we need to hire more drivers before that can happen", and now they're pulling back...