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Call me crazy, but I actually think the Wynne Liberals will win another majority in 2018 allowing all of these transit plans to remain intact. The main ingredients of Wynne's support base are progressives and millennials. Wynne's progressive credentials were damaged by the teachers strikes and...

Plus I imagine most EV owners would charge their cars overnight, when grid load is low and wind turbines generally have higher output.

I envision it to mean a scenario where you won't have short trips be penalized just because they cross the imaginary line that is the Toronto city border. Whatever the fare integration solution ends up being, it can't be one where Brampton Transit is pressured to move its bus terminal a few...

Hopefully we can have fare integration by the time this thing opens, so the buses can be planned based on what's best for the network instead of having to work around asinine fare rules.

Actually the provincial government does contribute some to the TTC's operating costs through the gas tax funding.

Those work for carbon reduction, but they don't necessarily make transit better. (Ie. VIVA Purple is not suddenly a much better service because it's running a trolley bus every 30 minutes instead of a diesel bus every 30 minutes).

Transit expansion is actually not likely to receive money from this. The goal is to maximize "bang for the buck" in terms of reducing CO2 emissions. Transit expansion is actually a poor performer in this regard. You need to spend a lot of money on transit projects to receive the sort of...

He means that the TTC co-fare should be 50-75 cents. As in, if you're buying a GO fare, your TTC fare on top of that should only be 50-75 cents.

Probably not. While transit is one of the things that carbon tax revenue may be spent on (there's a list in Schedule 1 of the Climate Change Mitigation and Low-Carbon Economy Act, check it out here http://www.ontla.on.ca/web/bills/bills_detail.do?locale=en&Intranet=&BillID=3740), and it...

Under the legislation, an annual report will have to be published detailing exactly what the cash flow is (both revenues from carbon credit sales and expenditures on emissions reductions programs) and a description on the environmental merits on each initiative. So it will be easy enough for the...

I've heard that when ATO happens, we can't actually bring train frequencies down to 90 seconds because of constraints of turning trains around at Finch, so the best we can do is something like 105 seconds. What if we built the Yonge extension, and changed the way trains turn around at the new...

Except, unlike the health levy, the revenues from cap and trade will actually be tied to emissions reductions initiatives and not thrown into the general pot... this has been written into the cap and trade legislation.

The amount of people upset about a line being 350m north of where they wanted it to be is funny. I mean, seriously. 350 metres. That's not even a 5 minute walk.

For the Ottawa Confederation Line trains, the parts are being built at Alstom's plant in Upstate New York, then the parts are assembled in Ottawa.

The problem is the sorts of people who are that motivated to work in the public sector specifically for such reasons, tend to be more risk-averse, less creative-minded thinkers. The types who will gladly play it safe, don't work as hard, guarantee to do reasonably well, all in exchange for...

Very familiar with the teachers situation as both my sister and partner are new young teachers. Young people can't get jobs mainly because for many years there were FAR too many people being graduated from teachers colleges, which only ended recently (in 2014 the government stepped in and...

The higher level executives are dramatically underpaid compared to private sector standards, yet they're the ones the populist "OMG TAXPAYER DOLLARS" rage harps on about. You're very correct in that it's the support staff and lower level people who are the overpaid ones.

There's also the fact that you have to pay execs generously to be able to compete with private sector execs. Suppose I'm someone capable of being a manager. If the private sector will pay me $300k/year, but the public sector will only pay me $100k/year, then I'm going to try and work for the...

Except provincial bonds have fixed interest rates. So any rising interest rates will only affect new debt. The creditors will probably be satisfied with the 2016 budget as it clearly indicates the debt-to-GDP ratio has stopped growing, and the province's economy is on the up.

Has it ever been stated whether or not the surface east portion of the Crosstown is being built with signal priority? I would assume yes, but this is Toronto so you never know.