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Milton gets shafted again. https://www.insidehalton.com/news-story/9834508--very-disappointed-metrolinx-halts-milton-go-station-expansion/

Presto is a lemon and nobody outside of the GTA wants it who isn't forced at gunpoint. Hence why GRT, Guelph Transit, etc have adopted their own card systems. Only a small minority of people in London will ever commute to. the GTA and most people would probably be fine with a separate system -...

In particular, huge differences in the exterior cladding and materials used in the undercarriages to compensate for the insane amount of road salt used in North America.

This. Ontario is really bad for surface lots, especially outside of Toronto. A garage at each station would be fine.

Finally. I think the Region's obstinacy has been a problem with this from the beginning. They clearly made no effort to identify pre-existing pedestrian desire paths and how having a line with no crossings there would hurt walkability in the neighbourhood. Then they only started working on the...

What's the alternative here? Alstom vehicles aren't exactly doing well in Ottawa right now, and continued overreliance on buses will slow down bus fleet renewal and electrification. It's also business for Thunder Bay, which strategically speaking needs to stay open if we're going to see the...

Brightline has always seemed like a bit of a hail Mary being in Florida of all places -- the culture seems utterly opposed to it, and having it as a luxury service doesn't let it meaningfully compete with the Greyhound market.

Not to mention the places that will get service again due to HFR. The real advantage of HFR, in my opinion, is that it creates real possibility for VIA to have a network and not just slowly decline down to the London-Toronto-Montreal corridor. Instead of intensively serving a single corridor...

That Port Credit transfer looks awesome. A good example of a properly integrated station design, IMO. At least ML is putting in effort to get it right when the line in question is LSW, while the poor Milton line gets commuterzoned again in design ways that will make it harder to RERify in 20-30...

This looks interesting, they put stuff on the table like more funding for intercommunity buses, which I think is by far the most important initiative here. Perhaps the province is concerned that the current rounds of PTIF money going to rural counties is making them look bad?

I agree with your assessment, but I wonder, are there any real infrastructure/logistics reasons for this? Weekend service obviously would be much lower than weekday service -- so would this be because of higher freight traffic on weekends or them taking advantage of downtime to move ahead faster...

"Pedestrian responsibility" is pretty limited as a systemic solution. While Toronto, especially Torontonians who are on places like reddit, might be an exception, general culture in North America tends to put blame on pedestrians as it is even when they have acted entirely legally, and drivers...

As well, I understand it's a distant possibility now, but a Milton line extension to Galt would be much preferable to creating a radial/spur route off the Kitchener line, which would probably only ever have commuter-oriented peak service and crowd that line even further. The Region of Waterloo...

Gormick has been pretty kooky about HFR in his own right, though nowhere close to Langan's level, and I'm someone who's read his Southwest Lynx document and totally agrees with his assessment and recommendations. I do sympathize with how jaded he seems about the provincial and federal...

I absolutely agree, I think having a vehicle like ONR gives a great way to effectively nationalize lines like this. Lots of the small towns along here had daily or better passenger service in the past and today are situated along a pretty deadly northern highway that's served to decimate their...

Not where I expected at all as Columbia doesn't have a lot of pedestrian traffic, especially I imagine at 5am. Sad to say but it was probably intentional.

I think the shared spaces/woonerf/etc theories are great in a peak urbanism kind of way. Certainly there's a tendency in North America to try to address problems with more rules rather than address underlying issues like design. But at the same time with the culture of absolute entitlement from...

A pity since the current Oshawa one also seems pretty poorly placed. The surface parking around it is a bit of a punch in the face, but then again so is looking at Oshawa in satellite photos in general. The Belleville Sub seems much closer to the core, and is on the right side of the 401.

So who actually wants the southern route other than Metrolinx? It seems from the article that local consensus is for a downtown station that will promote TOD rather than a southern station that, based on looking at the map, would probably be of the desolate park n ride variety, unless extensive...

A pity this seems to be BRT at the cost of widening.