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Ok, I guess I will never trust a business case ever again - that includes that of any Subway, Light Rail, or Highway Project. In fact, since we can never trust that a Business Case is trustworthy, we should just stop building stuff altogether. Let's get rid of most taxes, and completely abandon...

Its not part of OnCorr (as in they're not electrifying it), but there's nothing about not introducing minor service improvements. Its just that the line isn't getting the full treatment of frequent and electrified service. For what its worth, a train every 2 hours is in line with some of the...

The numbers shown here are the same as what Milton has right now. I think the reason for this is because this diagram only accounts for the impact provided by the GO Expansion plan specifically. Whatever the government is cooking up in regards to Milton (specifically that 6B electrification...

Wait, you're surprised that there are more flights between Regina and the 3rd largest city in the country, compared to Regina and a city that's roughly the size of Vaughan and only 2.5 hours away by car? There's a chance that the car is faster than flying when you factor in getting from the...

I actually didn't know that - that does make this quite odd. I do wonder if they're eyeing a different alignment though since the existing alignment along the foot of the mountain seems very windy and indirect. Will make what is a 400km distance as the crow flies even longer and less attractive...

This is the same map that was first shown off back in May, so this was before Jasper burned down. As for why Jasper isn't on here, I imagine its simply because the Canadian already exists to serve Edmonton <--> Jasper. Now obviously I'd love for a province run service to be added to the plan so...

They launched a public survey regarding this 2 days ago, and also hosted a consultation conference with international experts that same day. Survey: https://www.alberta.ca/passenger-rail-engagement Conference Article: https://calgary.citynews.ca/2024/11/22/alberta-passenger-rail-consultation/...

I get that's what you did, but my point is that's an awful way of finding cities to compare London with. I specifically highlight Atlanta because the MARTA network is a regional metro system which was meant to be a Hybrid between Metro and Regional Rail, with the ultimate goal of serving the...

Literally no one on this forum has ever argued anywhere remotely this position, and hardly what even @crs1026 is claiming. Even in the most generous infill proposals, station spacing is usually limited to being ~2km apart, and even then most local services on lines like Kitchener are limited to...

Wait, Cities below London? Do you mean they have a smaller population? Because I'm sorry but Atlanta is a monolithic city that traditionally rivals Toronto in terms of size and population. The only way that's true is if you somehow only stick to strict city limits and don't include the Metro...

iON has high speed curves? I can't think of many curves that iON has (even relatively gentle ones) where the train doesn't slow to like 20km/h.

They do here as well. Feds provide subsidies to roadways as part of the National Highway System, where roads are provided funding based off criteria such as traffic, as well as importance to national and regional mobility. However this applies to all roads equally, with no priority to things...

Consider what the arguments would've looked like back then. Yes Hwy 1 for 17 makes sense considering its the TCH, however for Ontario as whole, it would've made more sense to number for instance Highway 2 as "Highway 1" since that goes through areas where the vast majority of the province lives...

The TCH is not national. A lot of Canadians have this weird idea that the TCH is somehow like Canada's equivalent to the US Interstate Highway system when it really isn't. It's only really an antiquated route designation that's meant to symbolize the main route across the continent (and even...

All Streetcar Projects that operate entirely in dedicated lanes are for all intents and purposes "LRTs", and were called as such during their construction (St. Clair LRT, Harbourfront LRT, etc). In fact, when the Harbourfront Streetcar opened in 1990, it was featured subway map as a rapid...

The reason why SmartTrack for Lawrence East was cancelled is because Lawrence East was added as a stop for Line 2, at which point the notion of a Lawrence East infill was seen as superfluous, or at the very least not seen as being an immediate priority. With the City's extremely limited budget...

I'm not going to rehash arguments made by @Northern Light since he did an excellent job arguing the main points, and instead I want to point out the fact that when factoring in the possibility of using the SRT/Busway ROW, as well as a bid of extra space available on parts of the Uxbridge Sub...

"A lot" is honestly a stretch, and I'd argue that these places would be better served by infill Stouffville Line Stations. Its important to keep in mind that part of the reason why Line 2 shifted its alignment (and why the old plan of it being a 1 stop extension to STC was even considered) is...

Except it wasn't these three lines, in fact the only 2 EXO lines that are doing well are the VH and SJ lines which both terminate at LL. The 3 struggling Exo lines are Candiac, which terminates at LL, and the Masouche and MSH Lines which don't. Graph: Didn't LL first open in 1997... ?

In the case of Eglinton West, its unlikely C&C would've been that much cheaper. Part of the problem is that there is a massive Gas Mainline running underneath Eglinton at that section, meaning that any and all construction would've required them to do a massive and expensive relocation of that...