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June 11

There was a New York Central/Canadian Pacific station just north of Tecumseh Street; the building lasted through the mid 1980s and you can still see the platform in satellite images. There’s plenty of room to build a modern building with customs facilities. VIA/Amtrak would then either have to...

The holdout appears to be gone now. Now 55 and 58 stories. Planning issues include the third track at Brampton GO, protection for a future grade separation or intersection realignment at Mill Street and Railroad, as well as impacts on nearby heritage properties and the future development of...

Staff are recommending approval of a revised plan that adds one 45-storey apartment buildings, a 40-storey apartment building, a 14-storey apartment building, and a 6-storey apartment building. The 45-storey building will be 136.9m in height...

Quite a few frequency improvements starting June 24, so it looks like staffing is finally catching up. 501 on Sunday finally going from 30 to 20 minutes (though should be 15, as it was in 2010.) 501C will be permanently discontinued, however...

It was an interurban service, the Nipissing Central. There’s a bus today that still follows the route. Interestingly, the NC still exists as a paper company as the TN&O (now ONR) bought it to connect some of the mines, since the NC, unlike T&NO, had a federal charter, T&NO used it to open a line...

There are articulated buses in the Mississauga fleet. They’re often assigned to the 109, 110, 26, 61 and 66.

The Moss Park armoury is hardly a model neighbour for the community. Remember the time a few reservists there had their kicks by beating a homeless man to death?

For the Canada Post depot on Eastern Avenue, I’d move the Moss Park Armoury there, and then add the land to Moss Park itself to accommodate the growing population in the area, with maybe one point tower on 1/3 of the site. As for Brampton Armoury, it is actively used by the Lorne Scots...

It was a used bus. More artics are coming, but as far as I know, they are all going to be dedicated to Zum service.

As someone who lives downtown, I find the one annual bike event on the Gardiner and DVP much less disruptive than running events (there are three of those a year). There’s no impact to TTC surface routes, no bike lanes are barricaded, pedestrians aren’t affected. Toronto closes the two...

The line map displayed in the Mount Dennis Station (visible to the public from the sidewalk/MUP) shows a connection to the GO Barrie Line at Caledonia and Line 3 Scarborough at Kennedy.

Yeah, they're only doing the 407 overpass now. Apart from the yards, there's no track laid within Brampton yet.

The red light came on at Krispy Kreme?

Happens a lot, whenever a cop radios for assistance, which could be anything from a higher-risk or multiple arrest to an active shooter. If you don’t hear anything after, it was a precautionary call.

A modern slab! This might be okay.

Detroit is definitely part of Wayne County. Each state and city is different, though in terms of makeup and division of responsibilities. Los Angeles is part of Los Angeles County as well, while San Francisco is both a city and a county with the same boundaries. Baltimore and St. Louis are...

I heard from a planner at the City of Brampton this evening that a north side stop at Steeles Avenue is probably back on - at least that's what they heard. Not a confirmation, but now that the province has committed to the Downtown Brampton extension, I don't see why that would change now...

The QEW had two branches – the Fort Erie mainline and the Rainbow Bridge Approach. The latter was re-designated Hwy 420 in the 1970s along with reconstruction of the interchange.

There's a lot in the MTSA consultations, with the second batch focused on Mount Pleasant, Downtown Brampton, and the Sheridan-Shoppers World area. Zum serves all of these areas. I'm inclined to leave them here for now, until they coincide with specific threads elsewhere.