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Huge improvement over the old way of doing wayfinding signs. Both the mode and the agency are clear and obvious - no more confusion about which buses the sign is pointing to. Now if only they could put in a ceiling. Shopping malls already number their entrances, which is especially handy for...

No but high speed trains do often slow down to go through the heart of a city without stopping. Express trains from Milan to Rome, for example, slow to a crawl through Florence without stopping. They still make the trip in a bit over 3 hours. Bypassing cities in that size range is certainly...

If someone is a danger to themselves and others they can be forced into treatment. But I'd be willing to bet that most mentally ill people would love to have counselling and prescriptions available. Too often this conversation devolves into people being either bleeding hearts or completely...

This is the way to go for highway expansion in most of northern Ontario and other remote areas, IMO. A lot of people have the idea that we should have a fully twinned highway across the north without realizing how enormous of a project that would be to benefit so few people. 2+1 highways are...

Depressingly, the CPC are just as bad as the Liberals when it comes to housing policy. Poilievre himself is a landlord.

I think our Arctic population is even lower than that. The Arctic circle is farther north than people tend to think. All three territorial capitals are south of it. Our biggest community north of the Arctic circle appears to be Inuvik, population 3200.

I was disappointed by their chicken paprikash a few years ago and haven't been back. Hopefully they've improved the recipe!

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Interesting that they went from the cycle tracks being next to the sidewalk and separated from car traffic by street trees, to being next to the travel lanes and separated from the sidewalk. Seems like a step backwards.

Significantly more than would be generated from Owen Sound. I think you're making too little of recovering the lost ROW sections on that line. As I said, there are homes, businesses and farm fields on the missing sections. They run through the middle of many towns along the route, which have...

If you're using the term order of magnitude literally that doesn't really say much. Something being 9x more expensive is still a vastly different scale. But even then I have my doubts about that argument. The route to Owen Sound through Fergus, Palmerston, etc. is far from intact - in many spots...

Interesting. If anything that makes a hypothetical line to Owen Sound even harder than I thought!

Re-establishing rail to Collingwood would be similar, I'll grant you that. But Owen Sound is a different story. The rail line has been gone for decades and there are several gaps in the right of way, including the entire distance between Meaford and Owen Sound and through the hearts of both...

In theory maybe. But don't underestimate the extra headache of rebuilding tracks when they've been gone for years or even decades. People get used to the lack of trains pretty quickly. I didn't say that the line is easily available for passenger trains. Don't put words in my mouth. I clearly...

Peterborough is 3-4 times larger than both Collingwood and Owen Sound and has an active rail line. Sure, it would have to be rebuilt to a higher standard but it does exist. But yes, it makes a lot more sense to include Peterborough in HFR. If HFR goes ahead then the conversation about a stand...

The provincial pedestrian crossover standard is missing a crucial element - the crossing being raised, resulting in a speed hump for drivers. That's a standard part of the design in other jurisdictions. It forces drivers to slow down and makes it more likely that they pay attention to people...