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UP Express from the moment construction started a project to spend the least amount to connect the downtown to the airport. Initially there was a study that was about a corridor diversion which would have allowed the airport to be a stop for through trains (VIA, GO Kitchener), then the cut...

Yes, that article is as if the author never heard any of Yves Desjardins-Siciliano's sales pitches for the HFR project (which was not a high speed project), but because the plan was upgraded to have HSR sections thinks that this is only about speed. This iteration of rail corridor investment...

I don't know if it needed to be done, but considering the work to improve the conveyance of the river and the eventual Gardiner realignment the design seems pretty future proof with the maximum clearance below and less supporting obstacles.

That is not what I am saying (i.e. I'm not saying that a platform would sit up against a rail that has trains whizzing by at 300km/h). I am saying that where there are trains going 300km/h those trains are not on sharp curves or steep gradients which means building the side tracks that serve...

By building it they way they did some future government can spend a fortune on a dig down project and East Harbour can be the place Torontonians ask "will the construction ever be done".

Is there anything to communicate at this point? A high speed train needing a corridor maybe 30m wide is planned for a corridor that ranges between 10km and 25km wide. People are complaining how the railway will impact their property but unless they have a 10km wide property they can't...

Wait a minute... so is Alstom saying we need some silly tram rail for their equipment or just rail like European UIC 60 rail vs AREMA 132 RE?? If they are saying they are only going to build equipment for some special tram rail then this is even dumber than I thought. The whole point of...

Put the Alstom execs on the Finch West line and run the trains at 80km/h, 20km/h in the turn at Highway 27, and one way or another the problem will be fixed.

It's nice for Alstom to want things... but the Citadis Spirit sucks so they are going to need to change their plans, or Hyundai Rotem and others are going to eat their lunch.

Have they already procured the vehicles for Hamilton?? Surely they would fix this in the contract with Hamilton... the Bombardier equipment is showing what is possible in Edmonton, Toronto, and K-W. Why would they sign a new contract to reproduce the challenges of Ottawa and Finch West??

It is also a problem with property taxes being considered to have gone up when the tax percentage has gone down. It should be that the percentage is set, and council needs to vote to reduce taxes to lower the percentage. The way they do property tax makes no sense from and ability to handle...

The leadership from the days of setting naming standards for stations is mostly gone now. As soon as they renamed Oshawa Durham College GO the winds had changed

How many of those not fair comparisons are (a) things we can control but choose not to, or (b) are tied to things we can't control (where we are, our genetics, the weather, etc)?

Yes, I have noticed how useless the arrival indicators are. With some trains arriving into the station when the time prediction was that there would be none, times that stretch out much longer, and trips that purposely wait an extended period in every station. I will post more thoughts on...

We don't need it. Tokyo with its population of 18 million has freeways that are only 2-3 lanes in each direction, and even then they plan on getting rid of some of them in city cores. We need it only because we built it and create a development pattern that uses it.

There is a problem east-west and the issue is that (a) too much freight goes long distance in trucks and (b) to take freight between the Michigan border and points east of Toronto requires going through Toronto on the congested 401 or the expensive 407. No "avoid Toronto" option exists for...

When the 401 was built it was north of Toronto and most of the development, but the land it went through had a mix of no environmental significance and no protections. People knew it would trigger development and most people were on board with that. Car oriented developments like malls...

At one point were the louvres on the sides of the train platform atrium glass that let light through? It looks like an industrial vent now.

In addition to the WELRT and the fact it is a desirable location with the new river park, harbour views, near beaches and the Distillery, it is also only about 1km to the East Harbour GO, Ontario Line station, and Broadview car extension. Of places I could imagine living in the core in the...

Where you see places where the corridor all of a sudden looks thin... those empty spots are where the Ontario line stations are going (i.e. the hole north of the bridges build at East Harbour, the hole at Queen, and the hole at Gerrard). The bridges that are done over where the extended...