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If you are in a wheelchair or have a stoller, it's obvious how it impedes your progress. Other than getting in the way, they get in the view. One of the design concepts was to increase sight lines to reduce feelings of claustrophobia.

Of course 20 Ottawa bus lines will carry more than 4 Toronto streetcar lines. Comparing part of one system to part the whole of another is ridiculous. If you take the 240k daily rides by the number of lines, that's 12k daily riders per Ottawa Transitway bus line, less than the 504 King. If you...

Well Ford has come out and nixed a bid. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/toronto/ford-nixes-torontos-nascent-bid-for-2020-summer-olympics/article2126777/ I find it funny when reading about "the mayor's office" and "Mr. Ford" and then followed up with a quote from Doug.

The City has billions in property already and it's not earning very much. Why would the TTC be able to do this better than what we've already done? That said, I like the idea of leasing building footprints built into TTC stations, thereby giving the City steady income while giving private...

If the cars were standard gauge, they could drive down directly, so it's not irrelevant. Going by railcar to Washago or any intermediate destination and then by truck is going to more expensive than trucking the full route, or else why wouldn't they have done it to save costs and increase...

We could. However everyone would need to buy a set of rail wheels for the car and we'd need to build railroads for them to use, because there isn't much spare capacity in the existing system. In addition, the rail service vehicles you see manually raise and lower the second set, so you'd need...

The TTC uses a non-standard gauge for it's rails (both LRT and HRT). As such, they can't fix on anything outside Toronto without been retooled, which is more expensive than trucking them.

Ummm, there were 4 posts of the Ottawa Transpo bus queues. Or were you being sarcastic? If fact, only LordWanker's photo of Taiwan was a non-Ottawa example of bus congestion.

"A TTC fare of $2.50 will be deducted from the PRESTO card when it is “tapped” at one of the PRESTO readers at the select TTC subway stations listed above. If a PRESTO concession card is used at these stations $2.50 will be deducted from the PRESTO card. Other TTC fares, or reduced rates, are...

http://maps.google.com Ontario introduced photo-radar in 1993. Due to public complaint and it's ineffectness (only localized speeds were affected) they were mostly removed from the 400-series under Harris. I've heard 130kph as a design speed, but the point is equally valid. However, I'd like...

1) Increased fuel efficiency - Steel/steel interfaces has about 14% of the friction than Rubber/Asphalt interfaces reducing the required energy consumption per unit mass. Meaning 7 streetcars = 1 ETB. 2) Decreased operating costs - an increase in capacity means a decease in operator cost per...

Not many things last for 50 years without maintainance and our roads aren't one of them. We inspect our road bridges every year or two and do repairs every five or ten years. Railroads have fault detectors that reduce the supposed level of vigilance you picture. Railroads are more reliable...

That is assuming property values remained constant, our main source of City income. After a couple soft years in 2008 and 2009, property values in Toronto rose an average of 9% last year and projected to rise 5% this year. Average real estate prices in Toronto, corrected for inflation A 3%...

The video is a computer animation, and therefore of limited value. For example, the first visual it has of the line doesn't have correct shadowing of the piers (link as below). At 1:20, it shows a shadow for the runningway, but no shadow for the vehicles as they pass. At 2:07 or 2:50, you can...

I think this might be confusing for Americans/tourists, who already have issues with mph and kph, but it's not too bad of a problem. At worst they just yo-yo in speed a bit thinking the limit is going up and down a lot. This is ineffective from my experience. Unless you have police or camera...

He's already on record saying a 1.8% tax increase is "reasonable" and he'd limit any tax hike to 3%, so I expect this to be in there and tied to a lower chopping to fire and police services. As for asset sales, Doug Ford is on the record wanting to double or triple the THCH properties on the...

I think we were looking at different numbers. The TSX has a total market capitalization of $2.105 trillion, but in 2009 $56.8 billion was raised and in 2010 $36.2 billion was raised. I wasn't commenting on the size of Japan or Canada's economy, but on the 'liquid' capital available to the...

Many people misinterprete US law of 'right to self-defense' as a 'right to over reaction'. The term that crops up is 'appropriate force', meaning if they have a weapon, you may use a weapon to defend yourself (but not a gun to defend against a knife). Similarly for those with sufficent martial...

So you mean unless a monorail is incorporated into an existing transit system, it might not actually be urban friendly? Was there a benefit in Las Vegas' system being a monorail or does system design have more to do with being urban friendly than the number of vehicle/runningway interfaces?

Streetcars are like regular cars, they can reverse, but you rarely see them doing it on the road, unless you can't get past an obstacle.