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Since the airport is federally regulated it is not subject to Provincial EA regulations and therefore it was beyond the scope of the Crosstown EA. The TTC could have included it in scope anyways, but they probably figured it would be decades before it got there and who knows what physical and...

Just the EA: http://thecrosstown.ca/the-project/reports/EglintonCrosstownLRTEnvironmentalProjectReport

It might be easier to reconfigure the existing passenger and freight lines that go through the centre of the cities to handle HSR; and build a completely new rail network that doesn't go through the centre of the cities for freight. 150 years ago industrial areas were in the centre of the...

A few weeks ago I saw a RWD car with Florida plates driving down the road with snow tires on. If it had Ontario plate I would have figured someone was just too cheap to get summer tires, but with Florida plates they would have had to buy them special for the trip . . . in August.

My understanding is the contract has penalties for being late. If the contractor team can make the target date they get more money. For every month they are late (except for things that are beyond their control) they lose money. So being able to meet the schedule is important to the...

The lanes that will be removed are the diamond lanes that are currently used primarily by buses during rush hour. The LRT will move many more people than the diamond lane currently does so if you're looking at it in terms of moving people efficiently rather than moving cars efficiently then it...

I went to the island today. Where the tickets are taken the people who bought tickets there just had their tickets dropped into a bin. The people who had bought online tickets had to have them scanned with special scanners. It added a significant amount of time to the flow through that section...

People who say the Allen Road is ALWAYS slower are wrong. Like water always finding the quickest route downhill, so too traffic has a tendency to find the quickest route. Just looking at all the people who regularly need to go from downtown to the northwest part of the city - they can take any...

They haven't started yet. They can't build the stations while the section of tunnels the station is on is being bored. All the dirt from the front face of the tunnel goes back through the length of the tunnel to the exit (e.g. dirt from Yonge will see the light of day at Brentcliffe or Allen)...

I think subway rides are typically too short to financially benefit from first class sections. People won't pay extra for a fifteen or twenty minute ride. . . but they might pay extra for a GO Train ride in from Aldershot, Barrie, Oshawa or Kitchener. With all day two-way service coming there...

I like that graphic. In most parts of the world, outside of North America, one goes from rural to village or city with very little in between.

They shoudl buil Metrolinx could buy existing homes then turn around and sell them with a notice to the new buyer that a 3 story rail bridge will be built right outside. They would probably lose very little money.

You are right to a point, however different government departments and agencies identify regions differently to suit their needs. There is not always consensus on the boundaries. http://www.mtc.gov.on.ca/en/regions/regions.shtml...

A quick google search says bridges over railway lines need to be about 9m high, and railways are generally designed to have a maximum slope of 1%. Therefore the start and finish of the slope should be about 900m either side of the crossing point. At 100m from the highest point the rails will be...

Torontonians in general are fiscal conservatives. In the public realm councils will rarely earmark money for "beautification" projects when there are so many other social or infrastructure items that need to be addressed first. "Beautification" is seen as a bad investment by most short-sighted...

Barrie line will bridge over CN line. . . just like at the new junction interchange. https://goo.gl/maps/VKEtc

Whether you use Uber or Taxi's should really be an assessment of how much risk you are willing to accept. If the vehicle you are in gets into an accident - you are insured in a taxi; you are probably not insured in an Uber vehicle. Besides not having to pay licensing fees not having to pay for...

Unless there is some legal boundary established (e.g. county lines) "regions" are almost always amorphous things. No two people will have exactly the same definition and over time even the definition in the mind of one person can change. If you stop thinking of regions as being mutually...

I bet they are going to release the proponents designs for the stations.

Actually KoK is right. Durham County did exist. It was from Courtice east to Port Hope, north to Lake Scugog: http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/countyatlas/searchmapframes.php Durham and Ontario counties were reorganized with the south western part being called Durham and other parts added to...