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Well, we don't know if UberHop is illegal. It doesn't do much to just assume-away the most complicated part of the issue. For instance... "Municipal lawyer Ron Kanter expects the case could potentially wind up in the courts, leaving it up to a judge to determine whether Uber is violating the...

It's a though experiment which in practice doesn't seem very relevant. Autonomous vehicles, like humans, won't ever be making their decisions based on full information. They'll never be able to know everything about their surroundings. Maybe that women's stroller is just being used as a shopping...

We shouldn't forget the distributional impacts of HSR. The main market for HSR is between downtown Toronto-Ottawa-Montreal. The user base for these services will skew heavily to high income business travellers. Lower income travellers commute less frequently between those destinations in the...

Porter/YTZ's "quietness" though doesn't mean they will literally never make loud noises. Simply pointing out isolated instances where a plane interfered with your daily routine doesn't mean Porter/YTZ is unreasonably noisy.

It may not even be technically feasible, but that probably is a good idea. A significant portion of WB and EB traffic on the BD line is downtown bound. The time savings for that group would outweigh the additional weight times for the smaller group BD riders who don't transfer onto the Yonge or...

It's an informational issue. When a person is dealing with a cab 1-on-1 they can't tell if prices are reasonable relative to other cabs. If Cab X is charging a 2.5x premium, the passenger won't know if Cab Y is charging a lower premium and will be extremely suspicious. With Uber, customers...

Neither Porter nor any other resident of any city anywhere has ever 'promised' not to interfere with any other use of the city at any time. The nature of living in a city is that we all step on each others' toes. It only becomes an issue when the toe-stepping is unreasonable in the context...

How was what I said 'more than a bit histrionic?' My original question was "I wonder what the future of the Island Airport will be. Porter... couldn't be worth more than a few hundred million dollars in its current form. That seems like a glaring under-utilization of space so close to the...

Though counter-intuitive, this is actually works against an airport west of Pearson. A western airport splits the west of the GTA with Pearson, leaving all the Eastern GTA and a good chunk of the Western GTA in the Pearson catchment area. If you built an airport in Hamilton or KW, the entire GTA...

A "Toronto centric regional carrier" won't ever be worth more than >$200,000,000, though. In the long run it doesn't make sense to dedicate a large chunk of downtown land to something which is so minimal. At some point people will make the same realization the railways made; that downtown land...

I'm not a fan of the shallow NIMBY-ism that produced this decision but now that the decision appears to be final I wonder what the future of the Island Airport will be. Porter, which for the moment I'm crudely eliding with the Airport for convenience, couldn't be worth more than a few hundred...

^ That report is kind of bizarre. I'm not sure what to make of it. "A staggering number of people own their homes, but spend more than a third of their income on their housing costs" This is just a GTA-wide affordability issue. It's not Vaughan specific. Housing affordability is a major...

The same could be said for any good. When a firm signs a contract to produce a given good it's assuming all the risk of coordinating subcontractors (unless otherwise stated). That's what manufacturing is, the conversion of input components to finished outputs. It'd be ridiculous to let a company...

The TTC is seeking 50 (CAD) million in damages. The air sector has contributed to a 5 billion (USD) loss this quarter alone. It's not that surprising that most people are focusing on the latter. Even if BBD has to eat the full 50million they're still getting over a billion in revenue from the...

I wonder if it wouldn't be more practical to go the other way and replace the Richmond Hill Line with a segregated, non-mainline rail system. Using mainline rail on any kind of DRL would massively inflate tunnelling costs versus other forms of rapid transit (bigger tunnels, bigger stations...

I looked through a wiki list of "Old City Halls" in North America to gain some perspective on how ours could be repurposed. Ottawa - Converted to govt office space DC - Converted to court space Boston - Converted to office space Knoxville - Repurposed to a law school Mobile - Converted to a...

I doubt HSR will really influence Pearson that much one way or another. AFAIK, Montreal and Ottawa account for ~8-9% of movements at Pearson. At least some of that is transfer traffic that wouldn't care about HSR. It's a good chunk for two cities but hardly seems determinative of Pearson's...

Since always? The TTC has always maintained that ridership under 15,000 pph/pd is too low for subways. Sheppard is universally regarded as being underused relative to its capital and operational costs. And Danforth to Sheppard is nearly twice as long as Yonge to Don Mills, so it's hardly a great...

It's a little convenient to just declare that the underground option "makes sense." Obviously we shouldn't anoint the surface subway as THE solution based on a single study but people here are just reacting negatively towards it because it challenges the received wisdom that Don Mills NEEDS a...

I think it'll be difficult to find a workable tenant for OCH. It's a very big building, all things considered. Encouraging a smaller museum or gallery to take it over could end up just weighing them down. Ideally the space would go to a new gallery, but with MoCCA moving and a potential Mirvish...