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Just to put some numbers to it, Toronto on average gets 122 cm of snow every year. Montreal gets 210 cm. But Montreal has nothing on Barrie, which gets 286 cm every year. Toronto gets more snow than people tend to give it credit for though. We get roughly the same about as anywhere in the Prairies.

After prices rising last year due to pandemic-related issues, EV battery prices are now falling again. Down 14% in 2023 with the downward trend expected to continue. EVs being more expensive than ICE cars won't last much longer. Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Prices Hit Record Low of $139/kWh

With the extension to Richmond Hill it'll be the CN Rail-Bay Thorn-Yonge-University-Spadina-Sheppard-Keele-Jane line. Just rolls off the tongue.

I work in a building where at every entrance there's a list of all of the offices and which floor they're on. Washrooms and elevators are clearly marked and there's a prominent security desk in the middle of the lobby. You'd be amazed how many people don't look at any of these, instead wandering...

To be fair, that intersection is RIRO and I think it's planned to be removed. I don't think the difference in standards needs to stop the 404 numbering from being extended. There are other 400-series that have similar substandard sections, especially through valleys. The 403 in Hamilton and 406...

It's the same with buildings. While red brick is a local material that is ubiquitous all over Ontario, architects and landscape architects don't want to use it anymore. New buildings are mostly various shades of grey and white, completely lacking the warmth of red. And when they do use red it's...

The province's TOCs aren't about good transit-oriented development. They're about sweetheart deals with favoured developers.

There's no scenario in the foreseeable future when Summerhill will have more transit or be a bigger hub than Union. It makes no sense for HFR to leave Union for Summerhill, whether GO ever serves the latter or not.

This is a solution in search of a problem. The existing route to Union is just as fast as a route to Summerhill would be, and it's getting upgraded and electrified. It's more central, more connected to existing transit routes, and a vastly bigger hub than Summerhill could ever be. There are no...

A certain segment of the population sees bike infrastructure as wasting taxpayer money and creating gridlock. But in reality it's the opposite. Cars and the infrastructure to support them take up a lot more space than any other form of transportation. The more people drive, the bigger parking...

I understand it just fine. You're reading way too much into my post. I'm not making any argument about how money should be spent. The point of the "all things being equal" is to remove other factors and concentrate solely on the question of whether people prefer one mode over another. That's...

On this one specific issue he has a point. Studies have shown that, all things being equal, people do prefer rail over buses. In Ottawa of course, all things are certainly not equal. The same principles apply in Canada. We're not fundamentally different from people in other countries. LRT done...

I don't think you quite understand the power dynamics in this country.

The size of the system doesn't change wayfinding best practices. When you're looking for any particular station, how many other stations exist isn't relevant. Plenty of small systems have unique signs for their metro stations, for example Rome, Helsinki, and even Ottawa.

You're essentially asking me why the vast majority of rapid transit systems do this. The simple answer is it makes it easier to find a station and navigate the system.

Yes. Point being that people shouldn't have to be adaptable or have puzzles they need to figure out. It should be easy and intuitive for people who aren't familiar with the system. A clear and consistent sign that tells people that it's a rapid transit station is the most basic of useful...

Sure, people eventually figure it out but that's a pretty low bar for wayfinding. The problem is that the Metrolinx T is used for all modes - buses, GO trains, LRT, etc. It's a generic identifier for all transit. Not at all the way that London uses the roundel.

Nothing in that obelisk telling people what kind of transit it's trying to identify. Is it a bus stop? A subway station? A prematurely closed SRT? Who knows!

A transitway is typically for buses rather than trains. There's no indication that there will ever be demand for more than that on the 407 corridor. A transitway on Highway 7 also exists, flawed as it is.

People have been saying this for years but the reality that it's just not going to happen in the forseeable future. CN isn't going to willingly give up control over its own ROW and the federal government isn't going to force them to. I for one am glad that Via Rail stopped asking these kinds of...