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GO has long considered itself a Rail Network that does buses (consider their use of Bus-Trains). With trains on a private ROW, you can reasonable garentee arrivals. With roads and congestion, you can't, so bus-riders are second-class customers by default. Instead of cutting service or raising...

Because Metrolinx is paying for the design, and the design influences and is influenced by the headways. Thus, Metrolinx should have a good idea of what standard they need to build to and willing to share the info, while the TTC has more at stake in telling the public a figure that might not be...

Is there an condensation issue from the hot/damp outflow of the air conditioners on the ceiling strips?

That cost is just track works and closures. They are getting 191 new trains outside that procurement order. The TTC is paying about $250,000 per train control set for the Toronto Rockets. They are spending a billion on the 70 Rockets ($15 million per train).

There isn't any back-up to the $50 price or 5-hour journey he's suggesting. Iowa Government estimated it at $25. The difference in time might be related to the exact end points of the journey. Existing trains go 35-miles past Iowa City to Mount Pleasant, IA and take 3.5 hours from Union...

I'm not arguing that Chinese education is inferior to Canadian, just that they are different circumstances for different economies facing different social issues. We cannot recover the low-end labour market, nor should we really focus on it. As the world economy grows, you need to grab a slice...

I think you over estimate the construction value of a billion dollars. How many grade-seperations or elevators for an elevated system would you need? "Parallel" streets in KW have a tendency to cross.

Why wouldn't you use robotrucks first? Reduce shipping costs would be a huge competive edge. Where do you think the 3-second minimum headway rule comes from? Generally, one second for human observation, half a second for human response, and 1.5 seconds for deceleration. Only in a human-human...

That's the difference when you have a system that elevates only the most motivated versus a system that tries to equip all citizens for a life in the workforce. I'm not sure what this has to do with the price of tea in China, but sure it's great that 1.5% of Chinese are seeking higher...

So the de-industrialization of Toronto and the subsequent industrial growth in the suburbs is not a shift, just a changing expression of companies choice? Isn't that the definition of a shift: change from one thing to another?

Most "well educated" Chinese go on to private education after the public schooling. China is making the transition to a 12-year public system (fully state-funded for disabled people by 2015), but it takes time to grow the educational base. I think the other half of the coin from the...

Who said anything about "telling 416 residents to simply change their job hours"? I was saying as a society we need to move away from the arbitrary9-5 work day (I'd do this through a system of progressive tax incentives to corporations that have a percentage of employees working outside the...

In China they only have 9 years public education, would you like to exchange 25% of the education budget for an extra subway line a decade? Do you get angry when you think of the off the chart Beijing smog even after spending $17 billion in on air pollution in the last 3 years? There are...