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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Or for the very small number of people doing a ~150km bike ride along the Grand River/Hamilton Rail Trail to West Harbour GO. The 11:30 Kitchener arrival time made it difficult for me to get to Hamilton before sunset in August. The extra hour will be really useful.
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    100 Metre List

    Indeed. Vancouver, Toronto, and Seattle could all use some regional love. Burnaby, Mississauga, Vaughan, and Bellevue all have significant clusters for a suburb; enough to warrant separate lists. The Toronto and Vancouver pages link to other regional cities, but not the list of skyscrapers in...
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    Toronto Bike Share

    Replacement station being installed at Bloor and Ted Rogers Way.
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    Toronto Bike Share

    More than that. Montreal, the city, lost 34 million financing deployments to Chicago, NY, and London. They literally bought mind-share and economies of scale making the infrastructure appealing for other cities to buy.
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    2026 Toronto Mayoral Race

    Fear that no extreme candidate would win from that point forward.
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    Waterfront Transit Reset Phase 1 Study

    This seems very low risk.
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    TTC: Streetcar Network

    It was designed for 12km/h, though I don't know if it ever operated that fast, and a standard walkway is under 3km/h. So yes, it was considerably faster.
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    TTC: Streetcar Network

    Yep, removed in 2020. It was the only fast walkway that TKE sold. Beltways has a prototype of a 16km/h walkway at Cincinnati airport. It's more like a series of short contiguous independent conveyor belts (common in factories) than the single large walkways we're used to. Its big selling point...
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    Hamilton International Airport

    I didn't mean to imply it was easy for Porter financially; as you point out they're hamstrung by past decisions like equipment purchases. I just meant the fares they charge at YHM are not actually all that attractive for consumers; not enough for anyone west of Mississauga to go to that airport.
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    Hamilton International Airport

    Porters YHM prices don't seem rock bottom; economies of scale are lower but so are their fees. For the handful of April flights I checked, Flair Airlines from Pearson is within $50 for the same dates (sometimes less, sometimes more). Both charge for carry-on baggage.
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    Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    It helps blind people find the door. The new Line 2 trains will likely have the same feature.
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    Toronto 1087 Yonge | 120.1m | 35s | Generation Capital | a—A

    Sleep Country has closed and is boarded up, but not in a way I would expect for demolition. Running Room is closing March 26th. Something changing here but it's not clear what that is. Perhaps building out a sales centre?
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    Billy Bishop Airport Expansion?

    TRBOT also argues that mobility is one of the reasons Toronto waterfront has so many visitors, and expects even noisy mobility improvements like Jets and Hovercraft would increase that number. Keep in mind "Waterfront" for their numbers includes CN Tower, Aquarium, Scotiabank Arena, and Skydome...
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    Billy Bishop Airport Expansion?

    Isn't that one of the primary motivations to allow jets? An E195 at full range can reach markets well beyond Ottawa/Montreal like Bogota, Lisbon, Los Angeles, San Francisco, etc.
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    Mississauga Pearson Transit Hub | ?m | ?s | GTAA

    Paris Nord Villepinte is a good example of a convention centre, larger than what Ford is considering, near the airport and 30m by RER B to downtown
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Metrolinx owns that corridor so they're all GO lights.
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    I very much doubt is Chow's precedence of rejecting the power will be honoured by future mayors. Either the power shouldn't exist, or it should be used to achieve the goals of the electorate and they will be judged in future elections.
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    Mayor Olivia Chow's Toronto

    Agreed. Sometimes leadership needs to acknowledge when they made a mistake and promising not to use strong mayor powers when they benefit the city as a whole was a mistake. It's not undemocratic to use them, but it is democracy at a different scale; they mayor is still elected and accountable to...
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    TTC: Other Items (catch all)

    Fascinating. They have a taxpayer approved 6-mile underground extension to downtown San Jose currently under construction with an opening date of 2036. I expect the added operating funding will be approved but extending a struggling system seems counter-intuitive.
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    Billy Bishop Airport Expansion?

    Ironically, allowing Jets at YTZ may constrain capacity for Porter as I expect 80 to 120 slots per day will be taken by business jets that currently go to Pearson [many used Buttonville before that]. That's about half of YTZs current capacity. It'll be interesting to see what other improvements...

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