I thank you for your service
My condolences
My heart goes out to transit users in Toronto that have to deal with the TTC and City who treat transit as art meant to be appreciated from a far and not infrastructure to be used and provide utility
So they spent months "studying" to push the button that switches from advanced left turns to delayed left turns?
While better than the previous service I feel like the Minneapolis-St Paul LRT is a huge missed opportunity. It seems too slow to really revolutionize. A few grade separated intersections and a slightly longer station spacing and I think it would be much stronger line
Is rezoning SFH areas for midrise during a building boom really that hard of a formula to figure out?
Aka, wait for the Liberals to fuck up and become unpopular plan. The reason the CPC came across as the most childish sore losers after the last election
It's called the natural governing party for a reason. I imagine one of Harper's greatest disappointments in life was the Liberal party recovery after its collapse in 2011
Let's be honest here the minority is really just from floor crossers, the by-elections are just shuffling safe liberals around, and I don't think there has been a national level election in a Westminster system that has gotten over the line from floor crossers.
Atlanta is the spirit animal of American exurb development.
When comparing roughly similar metro areas sizes. Nevermind that another decade of rapid transit expansion might put the 3 major Canadian metros ahead of the tri-state area
And Atlanta's service area covers around 2 million people in a metro area of 6.4 million
People have a hard time realising that Canada has the best transit in the anglosphere outside of the outliers of NYC, London, and Singapore if you want to include it.
I'm interested to see what New Flyer will end up charging the US trolley bus agencies when they need new busses. I have to imagine TransLink is saving a decent amount of money buying a, relatively, off the shelf bus vs a bespoke order from New Flyer.
Leftists: Look what globalist neoliberalism has done for us (derogatory)
The Far Right: Look what globalist neoliberalism has done for us (derogatory)
Canadians: Look what globalist neoliberalism has done for us (complimentary)
They do have a decently sized battery and TransLink is looking into adjusting the trolley route to take advantage of that
I'm really curious what the Canadian budget would look like if we rolled back every tax since Jean Chrétien was PM and how much more tax everyone would pay at the top of each income tax threshold
Huge missed opportunity, who wouldn't want a replica of Marva's funeral brick
The big picture issues are the same, vibes based transit planning, largely ignored what helps the transit users the most. Be it streetcars in Portland or Transit Cities reliance on center running LRT in Toronto.
That was more a low blow at the Toronto LRT projects
Also if your centre running LRT in a stroad is going to cost you $100,000+/km just consider building elevated rail instead, it's not that much more and your LRT isn't going to magically turn a stroad into a beautiful European street.
When someone in power is pushing for a mixed traffic streetcar in NA the actual solution every time for transit users is more bus service
And if they are pushing for a median running "LRT" the solution is still more bus service but with some transit priority measures
It would probably have the knock on effect of encouraging extremely high density beside the provincial highways even if it's not the most ideal place for it.
Hot take assessment BC should assess the province highways land values at the highest use allowed adjacent to the roads and have the province pay the municipalities property tax for them
It does seem like they just tried to force the design onto a canvas that it doesn't work on
First look at the Solaris trolly buses for Vancouver, interesting at least the prototype has 3 doors when I thought the TransLink order was for 2 doors
magyarbusz.info/2026/03/08/m...
First Nation or not a pet peeve of mine is people on leaseholds that get upset when the lease see is coming up, see the False Creek South where lease holders seem to believe they are entitled to lease extension at below market prices
The question is a realized frequent and high capacity metro now better than a hypothetical future service with higher capacity?
24,000 PPHPD is the same capacity as Paris's line one, I think there is a lot more room to grow on the REM.
I think the worst was the paternalistic racism complaining about how the first Nations weren't living up to the retired white persons noble savage caricature
Look so nice and they blend in so well with the cladding
They were never actually upset about the trees they were pset that towers were being built and trees were an avenue for obstruction.
