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I'd like to think that Via will change its archaic boarding practices when wider platforms are available. But it's worth noting that Montreal Central Station has wider platforms and they're raised as well. But they still force people to line up like they're boarding a plane. Same with Ottawa...

I was on a corridor Via train a few years ago that was delayed by several hours because another train hit debris on the tracks and it took that long to clear all the trains that had built up while the mess was cleaned up. At one point we were stopped at a station (I don't remember which one) and...

Despite the issues last weekend, trains are by far the most reliable way to travel in winter storms. Let's not forget that most of the 401 and other highways were closed altogether.

A lot of people think of it as only gas, but the reality is that it's significantly more than that. Just because people don't take the extra cost into account that doesn't mean it isn't there.

Kind of off topic, but Naples is seriously underrated as a travel destination. Most people use it as little more than a jumping off point for the Amalfi Coast but it's worth spending some time in the city itself. Articles and Youtube videos would have you believe it's dangerous and sketchy but...

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Bus services are a lot easier to be profitable when they run on public infrastructure. If we treated our railways the same way that we treat our highways then private rail service would probably be a lot more common. Private passenger trains running on another private company's freight tracks...

Fair enough. Although it occurs to me that GO expansion (including the Union Station platform project and rail upgrades) and Ontario line are both Infrastructure Ontario projects. So if you don't trust that the GO and Union Station work will get completed then surely that same lack of trust...

GO trains will be significantly more frequent as well by the time the OL opens. And with only 3 stops (compared to 15 plus a transfer) it will almost certainly be faster than the subway for that trip.

The Ontario/Relief line was never going to be called either of those names by the general public after opening. It's just going to be a number like the rest. Maybe the street names will stick for lines that follow a single street but that obviously doesn't apply for the OL. Doug Ford will be...

No pictures, but the separated bike lanes on Steeles between Midland and Kennedy are now open.

You don't think that Queen, Osgoode, Pape, etc. are going to be just as complex, if not more so?

The current project goes farther west but not as far north (with phase 2, which Ford cancelled). Which is better isn't nearly as cut and dry as you suggest. The relief line work was moving at breakneck speed as well, after decades of dormancy. Don't forget that the previous government got a lot...

To be fair, the Ontario line builds on years of work done for the Relief line. The Relief line would have been under construction by now if it had been allowed to continue. And planning for the second phase, likely to Sheppard, was well underway. Ford isn't doing anything that the city and...

Again you're doing this one extreme or the other thing. Reducing reliance on driving doesn't mean hating the idea of driving. Charging for parking doesn't mean that you have to charge for parking all day, every day. These discussions are more fruitful if you see the shades of grey.

I don't think anyone is forgetting that at all. GO's overreliance on Union Station is part of the reason that new and expanded interchange stations are being built around the city to create a tightly integrated local and regional rapid transit system.. The Distillery District is a 20 minute...

Yes you're right, Paris doesn't have a separate letter for each branch of a line. I meant in concept, if not the details. I think it's just an old fashioned mentality based on an outdated service model and misguided assumptions. Every trainload of drivers creates a traffic jam (and the...