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I suspect the reason that Via didn't take any significant actions to mitigate the millions of dollars in financial damages caused by the...

Why are we assuming that shunt enhancers are required? Nearly every other railway on the planet manages to detect small trains just fine...

I'd much rather they focus on improving streetcar operations than building LRTs that won't end up faster than the currently existing...

Indeed, it's the apparent inability of the TTC and City to learn from other places that's most frustrating. Strive to be the best, not...

I agree we're not the slowest, but if we compare ourselves to the developed world's worst transit systems, and refuse to learn from...

The Utrecht and London systems are not comparable to the TTC streetcars. In London, those trams operate in the soutrhern suburbs, no...

I'm not sure exactly when it was built, because when the lower level initially opened, that section where the escalators are was blocked...

The infamous escalator inside the Zara store:

I beg differ on that - and I think that the TTC need to stop being everything and start optimizing, because at this rate it'd be the...

Pre-rebuild of the underpass, the difference in the height of the wire on either side was so extreme (and the slope connecting them so...

Yeah, I'm thoroughly disappointed by the decision making here, and at Martin Grove. I get trying to keep costs down, but this is not you...

Well I definitely think the streetcar network has far too many stops, especially compared to many European cities.

My boss at work used to say he wanted things done "yesterday". I don't think TTC bosses are familiar with that expression.

The city's Transportation Department does some pretty dumb things but this is a levelled-up dumb thing. They rebuilt brand new roads...

Having done this many a time, I tend to agree. Thankfully it is not a part of my commute, just my way home from the cottage. But yeah...