Any idea why VIA is having such challenges with it then? Are they using the electrified version there?

Considering there are reliable modern train services already in places like Sweden and Finland trying to always create our own solutions to have them blow up on us is just embarrassing. Also this doesn’t bode well for launching the Northlander this year with the same train sets.

It really is the logical next project, and specially considering the tunnels west of Young were built future proofed to be extended that way. Also really hope when line 4 goes east they have the sense to have it go directly to STC.

Now that we know how line 6 operates it really should be a skinny red line just like the streetcar routes.

a group of people sitting in a theater with the words so hot right now written on the bottom ALT: a group of people sitting in a theater with the words so hot right now written on the bottom

Other than not needing platforms and a lower height what benefits do low floor trams really have? I guess if transit agencies are insisting on building expensive deep tunnels instead of elevated or cut and cover the shorter tunnel clearances are ok? It’s like mistakes compounding into more mistakes.

Let’s Go Red Wings! #LGRW

I used to get Greenland and Iceland mixed up all the time till about grade 3. Thanks the quality Canadian education I received I don’t make that mistake anymore.

I’ll never understand how half of the US can’t see this as clearly as those of us in the rest of the world do.

This is corruption at a level never before seen in the world.

I’ve been in the market for a new car for a while, but what I wanted didn’t exist in the current North American auto industry. The quality, price and options in Chinese EV cars can be a game changer. (Side note: really weird I’m less concerned with Chinese software than Tesla controlled stuff)

Cross-border travel from Canada to U.S. down 31% by car, 19% by air Canadian-resident return trips from overseas countries continued to trend up, by 10.4% year over year

Just wait till what’s happening in Minneapolis is fully appreciated by the Canadian public. Us, like the rest of the world know the US is not the safe place to visit it was before Trump used the US constitution for toilet paper.

www.travelweek.ca/news/destina...

There have been several service cuts to VIA rail over the years but two dates remain the most damaging to the network. Nov 15th, 1981 and Jan 15th, 1990. The 1990 cuts to service 36 years ago today reduced the VIA network by 55% and those keeping service often was a less frequent and reliable level

If the US is committed to ‘re-shoring’ US auto production from American companies, then every layoff announcement in Canada should se the tariff rate on Chinese EVs dropped 10 percentage points.

The Globe and Mail

'Hogwash': Ford downplays speed camera effect as Toronto traffic fatalities hit record low in 2025 In 2025, Toronto’s streets were the safest in over a decade but not everyone is convinced that speed cameras were largely responsible

"Toronto doubled its number of speed cameras from 75 to 150 last year, a measure that studies show did change driving habits. By the end of 2025, the city saw its fewest fatalities and serious injuries since the beginning of the Vision Zero program."

Plus they prevent any changes to the far too narrow platforms and force the busiest train station in Canada to operate more like as airport than train station.

Sure and 55% of the London Underground is above ground. Names like Subway or Tubes or the El have more to do with local nicknames applied to the first heavy rail metro systems in that city than defining what grade they should be at.

“reaching into the far corners of Etobicoke, and especially Scarborough, is just geographically daunting: trying to do it entirely with subways was never seriously discussed, because the cost-per-km is so high”

Greater Van says hold my beer and builds light metro to…Langley 45km away from downtown.

In no world does adding flexibility and lowering red tape to develop property reduce values. These are essential steps towards addressing fundamental housing shortages and building missing middle housing that’s affordable.

But NIMBYs gonna NIMBY.

Wasn’t Ben Zobrist both and everyday playing and a super utility guy who moved all around the field?

It isn’t about fentanyl or else the pressure would be on Mexico

It isn’t about drugs at all or else Hernández wouldn’t have been pardoned

It isn’t about human rights or else they wouldn’t be chumming it up with MBS

It isn’t about sham elections or they wouldn’t fawn over Putin

It’s about the oil

The Leafs are the only original 6 team without at least one player to score over 500 goals wearing their jersey. Will Matthews get run out of town before he gets there?

Well at least we can stop worrying about becoming the 51st state….

But we can start worrying a whole bunch more about becoming the 52nd!

At what point does the international community draw the line? Are sanctions coming? Do international events like the World Cup or Olympics get boycotted?

Other places that Trump has been sabre rattling about like Panama, Greenland and even Canada all feel a whole lot less safe today.

Graph from NY times article posted October 2025.

Instead of fixing supply and the problems that led to not building enough new housing we closed the tap on demand and capped international student counts.

In doing so we forfeited economic gain and world influence because the brightest and the best are avoiding the US and need a new place to learn

We need to build more quality transit, but to build the right stuff we need to listen to the right experts.

First clue the expert you’re listening to isn’t the right one, so they use the term ‘LRT’ to generically describe all rail projects?

Any movie with cameos by Nash The Slash and Joey Ramone is OK with me. Good choice!

These Stupid Trucks are Literally Killing Us YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

SERIOUSLY, WATCH THIS: If you really want to understand how huge SUVs and pick-up trucks have ended up being MOST of the vehicles out there in our cities, and the absolutely INSANE consequences of that, watch this easy-to-watch video by #NotJustBikes. Then please share it as much as you can.

I struggle with understanding which independent media is reliable and which is someone with an agenda or their own conspiracy theories creating an outlet to share it.

I think reviving the Northlander service is a good thing, but I still feels to me that the focus on returning service to near its prior state ignored the bigger opportunity of daily rail service to downtown Sudbury via North Bay. Maybe we should start talking stage 2 now?

I know a lot of London, ON folks are still upset we built BRT instead of LRT, but the outcome of the Finch LRT in Toronto should help us realize we dodged a bullet with that one. The anti-transit people were somewhat right, but for the wrong reasons.