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GO Transit buys high-floor coaches with wheelchair ramps, as far as I know. The 20-year-old high-floor city buses some agencies still have don't have ramps. Presto obviously works just fine on either.

I mostly agree with this point - if you get people off the roads, others will take their place. But I think at the margin of extreme, paralyzing congestion, this may not hold up when there are actually good transit options. People will still clog up the roads to take the place of others, but the...

You know, I don't think linguistic prescriptivism is the solution to the problems of electronic transit fare integration across the GTHA.

Related to Presto - the Region of Waterloo is slated to award a contract tomorrow to Scheidt & Bachmann to install Grand River Transit's new fare system. (Details on page 34 here.) Installation is scheduled for 2015. The card is independent from Presto apart from a specific integration at the...

Waterloo Region has been getting on with actually building transit (but first getting all the details in place) full-steam since 2011, and that included fighting this frivolous challenge. The official groundbreaking is set for next Friday, and there are finally big signs up at each station...

This kind of infighting and policing of who deserves and doesn't deserve transit is one of the worst things to my mind about Toronto transit politics. Rather than trying to find a way for there to be enough transit for everyone, it's all about who doesn't deserve transit. Is it really better...

If the current administration of Metrolinx feels that 10 years is an aggressive timeframe, that doesn't mean it can't be done.

VIA didn't take it over in 2013, no. What did happen is an agreement between VIA and CN on paying to install CTC / signals along the Guelph subdivision, which is currently being done.

Unfortunately, this isn't correct. Metrolinx owns the portion from Union to (near) Bramalea and has a conditional agreement to purchase the portion from Georgetown to Kitchener. But the rest is owned by CN.

Traffic throughput is not the only lens through which to consider intersections. A major benefit of roundabouts is that they decrease the severity of collisions. People die when cars run red lights or turn left across traffic. It's much harder to have a severe collision at a roundabout. (This...

Yeah, the tolls are astronomical, even overnight; no congestion charging scheme would be charging $0.20/km to drive on the highway at 3am. The 407 charges way more than needed to ensure there's no congestion.

Is this a real thing that might happen within the next 20 years, or just one of those famous high-speed rail studies? Because it's also across a border, leading to the same question of whether the other side of the border - and/or the federal government - has a serious interest in high-speed...

Conversely, if there isn't any real chance of getting a cross-border connection, then HSR to Niagara Falls doesn't make that much sense. Similarly for Windsor and Montreal.

Rosario Marchese says there would be no NDP-PC coalition.

And picks it apart without seeming to care very much about international examples or about the transit plans within Kitchener-Waterloo and London. I submit that this kind of "this is not the perfect project at the perfect time, therefore it is bad" reasoning for transit projects (but not...

Um:

Glen Murray also tweeted that Liberals would seek changes to Transport Canada railway regulations.

I don't believe it did. Their commitment is to carry out a feasibility study. I assume the idea is to fund it from that $29 billion.

GO Transit fails to mention it, but there is actually plenty of free parking currently provided near the Kitchener station by the Region of Waterloo (details down the page here.)

It would probably be possible to extend GO train service along the Barrie-Collingwood Railway, or what's left of it. But I don't see why this kind of thing needs to be a train concept rather than a bus one.