Sean Marshall

ArcGIS is expensive to maintain. My maps (some of which are for paid contracts and the rest for public consumption) run me about $1700 a year including having to buy usage credits.

I would have gone with the Guelph of Quebec (hills, topography, big-ish university) but really, Guelph is to Western Ontario as Peterborough is to Eastern Ontario so yeah, it works.

North Bay, Ontario. A gateway to the north, but not yet *really* the north.

Proposal to name a SkyTrain station after former Surrey Mayor Doug McCallum | Urbanized Surrey city councillor Linda Annis is proposing to name a future Surrey-Langley SkyTrain station after former Mayor Doug McCallum.

CAN WE STOP NAMING STATIONS/LINES AFTER PEOPLE???

HAVE WE NOT LEARNED OUR LESSON??

Hurontario to “””Hazel McCallion”””

Now another “McC” with McCallum

Name things after relevant streets, landmarks, nghbrds etc that actually help with wayfinding!! It’s not hard 😭😭😭

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Proposed transit network for Centre Wellington. Route 1A/1B connects Elora with Fergus, stopping at the hospital between the two towns. Routes 2 and 3 provide service within Fergus while routes 4 and 5 are planned for future implementation as the municipality grows.

Really basic service to start - 60 minute frequencies except for the 1A/1B sections which would be every two hours - but it's a start. They avoid one-way loops too, which is good.

Transit Feasibility Study The Township is conducting a public transit feasibility study. Our goal is to assess the demand to expand on the existing public transit options currently in place.

The Township of Centre Wellington (Elora and Fergus) is planning a new fixed route transit system.

For now, they're planning for three routes to start within the Elora-Fergus area, augmenting the existing RideWell county on-demand service and the GOST link to Guelph.

www.connectcw.ca/transitstudy

Stratford, at least, also has connecting service to Kitchener-Waterloo, St. Marys and London via PC Connect, and has a daily Flixbus service to Toronto and one VIA train a day (used to be two). These all stop at or near the transit terminal too.

A cropped PDF of Stratford, Ontario's transit map, with seven coloured routes, all converging on a transit terminal just south of downtown.

There's a bit more sense to Stratford's map, which covers about twice the population with seven routes. But still a lot of one-way loops and really tight coverage.

All routes have 30-minute service, though it goes to on-demand on weekends.

www.stratford.ca/en/live-here...

Every hour!

Great coverage of the town, but you don't get anywhere fast. And no coverage of the rest of Kawartha Lakes, including outlying towns like Fenelon Falls, Omemee, or Bobcaygeon.

You'd think that some of the resources to send buses around on long one-way routes to make sure that everyone in Lindsay is less than a 5 minute walk to a bus stop could be used to connect other communities within the City of Kawartha Lakes and to Peterborough and the GO bus near Pontypool.

Transit system map for Lindsay Transit, with four routes on one-hour loops through the town of 20,000, converging at a bus stop icon in the downtown area near the centre.

If anyone can make sense of this transit map, let me know.

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I also made changes to my Canada intercity transportation map. As always, I look forward to your feedback, including corrections and updates.

Ride CK: A rural connection After amalgamation in 1998, Chatham-Kent has shown what transit in rural Ontario can look like with long-term commitment.

Rural transit needs sustained commitment to work, and Chatham-Kent has made it happen with years of experience. But regional and provincial solutions are still necessary.

I rode this streetcar during my last visit to the US back in November 2024.

I’m not at all surprised it’s being shut down.

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The Vancouver mayor is like that talking Al Gore doll from the Simpsons

TL,DR: He’s out, but he might still make an endorsement.

This is an older sign standard, the yellow bar at top dates the sign from the early 2000s.

If Evan Solomon can, why shouldn’t he?

SmartTrack’s scrubbed Scarborough station On Finch Avenue East in Scarborough, the SmartTrack name lives on at a recently cancelled transit station. Finch-Kennedy was only one of five “SmartTrack” stations left by the time its …

You can still find signs of SmartTrack if you look closely at the site of a cancelled SmartTrack station in Scarborough though.

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SmartTrack, we hardly knew ye

Oh thank god

The NYT style guide

A day ending in “y.”

The photo editor's choice here...

There’s a whole pack of media he’s travelling with. A lot of liberal partisans screamed at Harper for barely taking to Canadians via media.

I think that’s mostly Ubers/couriers serving the giant condo tower on the corner. Always so many U-turns in front of it.

Cybertruck about to be towed away in a no stopping zone

You love to see it.

Does Leon’s want a downtown store again?

So what to do with the existing modern facilities like the MTCC South Building and Enercare?

This doesn’t make a lot of sense.

As for airport access, would it mean restarting construction on the King-Liberty Station?

There’s a lot to think about with a new convention centre (never mind that Enercare/Automotive Bldg already offers a lot of space) that I doubt Doug has.