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    Toronto Union Station Revitalization | ?m | ?s | City of Toronto | NORR

    Is the sign directing people in an incorrect direction? What is obvious in normal circumstances may not be so obvious during a fire emergency where things might be obscured by smoke. I'm confused. Side Note: Never underestimate the stupidity or carelessness of people. When there was a fire...
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    Hamilton International Airport

    Foreign investment is a double edged sword. Sure, allowing for foreign investment would open up the amount of capital available to an airline. However what's to stop, KLM group for example, from opening up a subsidiary airline in the Canadian market thus bypassing completely having to invest...
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    Roads: GTA West Corridor—Highway 413

    What time frame are you going on? 407, 407 E, 401 expansions, 427 extension, 412, 418, 410 extension have all been built within recent times. This is always an interesting discussion. A new (or addition to existing) rail line, or subway, or even LRT costs more to build than a lane of highway...
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    Hamilton International Airport

    I think it's unlikely Porter would ever fly out of Hamilton. I never thought I'd see the day that Porter would fly out of Pearson for that matter but I don't see them flying out of Hamilton. Porter's target market is business travel and slightly better than Air Canada leisure traveler. That's...
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    The only reason I can think of for the sign (and there are a few instances along Hwy where the VIVA rapidways operate in the median) is where the interchange explicitly indicates that the intersection is dedicated for making a U-Turn. Often done where there is a business or some address that...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    Bus from port hope to Bowmanville + go train to union would be a trip time of close to 2 hrs. By train it could be done in 1. That's a massive difference when someone is commuting daily or 2-3x per week. It's the difference between getting home in time to do something in the evening and...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    Proposal for Via Rail all economy (or limited Business class) GTAH regional commuter service. With the Venture train sets giving VIA some flexibility I was thinking if VIA could introduce some peak period commuter style service to the GTAH. For example VIA currently shows the travel time from...
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    VIA Rail

    My memory was that the victim of that accident had a hearing disability, or maybe had earpods in affecting there hearing. And also recall a poster here who DID have hearing issues raising the issue of safety at union for differently abled people. Not amount of clanging bells or flashing lights...
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    Transit Fantasy Maps

    Interesting. Without knowledge of this plan I came up with a similar line for my grand GO Transit network plan. Except my plan used the Midtown Corridor rather than heading to Union, and had more stations than the above plan as my line was more of a RER line than a commuter line. I had...
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    Quebec-Windsor Corridor

    and not every dslr camera has wifi/bluetooth capabilities
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    Toronto Union Pearson Express | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | MMM Group Limited

    I could be mistaken but an extension of the cable car would mean a reduction in service frequency since there is no infrastructure in place for the cable cars to change sides.
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    VIVA + York Region Transit

    GO Transit runs bus routes along the 407. I'd suggest adding a few more stops, and maybe exiting the highway for a bit to pick up some local passengers before adding a DRT bus. Hwy 7 East of Cornell is pretty barren Sure this may increase the total travel time for the routes but there's no...
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    Tunneled Gardiner Express way :D
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    Why tunnel though? I remember some proposals from a decade plus back of stacking the 401. I.e. Collector lanes on ground level, Express elevated (or something like that). Ford here is showing his blue conservative roots. Road congestion? Build more lanes! Hopefully he doesn't think that...
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    General railway discussions

    I'm no railway engineer (though I did once stay at a super 8 LOL!). However a cursory look at the topography of the area shows that there is a narrow band of fairly even terrain that follows the Lake Ontario shoreline. Meanwhile the terrain North raises quite quickly. In fact a straight line...
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    GO Transit: Corridor Studies

    MInor Spell Check item. Ontario, not Ontarian
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    VIA Rail

    Would there be any utility in creating a rail connection at Gananoque/Kingston. Would there be significant savings in this routing for a NY/Toronto line, vs the round the lake route? It looks like there is a ~40 Km gap between the rail lines around Fort Drum and the rail lines on the Canadian...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I'd say that 36,000 pph is insufficient even without seeing the photos of the crowd. Probably double that and you might get close to moving everyone through the station. I get it, there's staffing issues, but we were downtown last year for NYE and it was a crush load crowd then too. Imagine a...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Drop the loco hauled trains. Go MU for better acceleration.

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