JackTatt 🇨🇦

Exciting! Just heard.
Sadly it won’t the full service until February. Early December service will be from 10am-3pm weekdays and weekends from 10am-7pm only about every 20 minutes (additional services above existing Sunbury, Cranbourne, and Pakenham line schedules). Timetables change in February.

Canada does a half-half compromise: Edmonton (AB), Quebec City (QC), Victoria (BC), Regina (SK), Fredricton (NB) are not the largest cities of their respective provinces. But other provincial capitals are: Winnipeg (MB), Toronto (ON), St John’s (NL), Halifax (NS). Alberta & Saskatchewan are close.

These are dangerous speeds NOT honest mistakes. Any good Constable would pull someone over for going that much over in non-highway conditions.

To the point that the big cities of Australia are referred to statistically by the Australian Bureau of Statistics as Greater Capital City Statistical Areas (GCCSAs).

amazing work

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Hour to hour and ten depending on the stopping pattern and departure you get.

MARC also has the opposite of regular interval clockface headways, even on the Penn Line. They cannot manage hourly service.

So what’s your take on Canberra? A backwater of less than a million located inland from the coast and far from anything except the magic half way mark between far bigger, far more important Melbourne and Sydney which actually have international airports where you can fly across oceans.

As an Italian, do you have any idea of reasons why some Italian cities can be such models for public transport (looking at Milan) and others like Rome and Naples fall flat?
Some sort of regional rivalry (like the Melbourne - Sydney rivalry is intense and Toronto - Montreal also rival)!?

Vehicles registered to Ford cabinet ministers caught by speed cameras more than 20 times | Globalnews.ca Documents obtained by Global News reveal that, over three years, vehicles registered to Ford’s cabinet minister received more than $3,300 in fines for speeding.

🤤 (shocked, shocked I tell you)

We have ample evidence these days of the importance of sticking with your principles and to the data, instead of acquiescing in advance to a government trying to consolidate power

Except you’re also accurately describing our leaders and policymakers in Canada.

May I remind you that Canada is supposed to be a democracy, meaning the will and needs of the many outweigh the few unless they impinge on the basic human rights of others (and there is NO human right to congestion free driving or cheap parking).

In MS products on windows two dashes should produce an em dash.
I use Windows PCs when I was in school (a lot of engineering software doesn’t play nice with MacOS or isn’t even available for Mac — looking at you Bluebeam) and for work now.

Heros like Tecumseh and Sir Isaac Brock (who actually wanted to be fighting napoleon but instead was sent to Canada) and Laura Secord (a Canadian lady entertaining American soldiers in her house who overheard their plans, then ran through the night guided by indigenous warriors to the nearest fort.

In Canada, we’re taught how we defended our homeland in the War of 1812 with negligible aid from the British until 1814 because they were too preoccupied with that Failed French Dictator to worry about their colonies. Canadian First Nations taught hard with Canadian militias & small British army.

"Every kilometre over the limit increases the risk of tragedy, and ASE is a proven, effective way to change driver behaviour and protect our most vulnerable road users, including children and seniors. Every resident deserves to feel safe on our streets at any time of day or night.” #Brampton #ASE

Not unheard of.
Sydney Metro won’t add a second entrance to Barangaroo Station for several years.

** Sydney to Brisbane
[Melbourne is the same time zone as Sydney].

Shoot I meant Brisbane! Why can’t I edit it, I’m tired.

Daylight savings in Australia creates the weird scenario where you fly east from Sydney to Melbourne but go back in time by one hour! Or fly from Adelaide north to Darwin but lose an hour!
Queensland, Western Australia, and Northern Territory don’t do DST. The other states do.

gothic mortuary railway station, street frontage

platform at mortuary station

locomotive in rail yard, through mortuary station arch

platform edge and track at mortuary station

i did the mortuary station tour! trains once took the dead and their mourners to rookwood necropolis near lidcombe

Would come in handy in a future where Central Railway Station needs more capacity for high speed rail services to Canberra, Melbourne, Newcastle, and Brisbane.
How close is the station to the end of Platform 1 at Sydney Central?

also went for a ride on a sydney bus museum leyland opd2. one of the light bulbs is marked ‘NSWTD’ (new south wales tramway department?)

Diesel electric locomotive with train at a station platform

Trainception

“Port Botany” sign

I rode on the Port Botany Goods Line tour, part of the NSW Transport Heritage Expo

NSWR & VR stainless steel carriage stock

it breaks my heart when i see these sleeper cars. they’re younger than VIA Rail’s transcontinental budd cars! we could still have a proper sydney-melbourne night train!

Shows how much Toronto yearns for pedestrianized streets.

Photo radar history: "A 1995 poll showed that 55% of Ontarians approved of photo radar. Many respondents liked the lower speeds & had adjusted to the technology. Women favoured photo radar more than men, while 18-to-24-year-old men were the most opposed (& also the worst demographic for accidents)."

RIDE (Reducing Idiot Driving Everywhere)

On shipments to Canada, you can self-clear at your local CBSA office. The duties the officer assesses may be more or less than those assessed by the shipper (I self-cleared something where they charged me a couple dollars more than DHL quoted). I wish duties were more straightforward and consistent.