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I guess it's time for my old photo from Pompeii Italy, showing the dual gauge quandry of Roman chariot makers. The urban legend is that...

Not to mention the hundreds of second hand American standard gauge PCC's that the TTC purchased and subsequently re-gauged.

As others have pointed out thousands of times in this forum since the launch of this website, the Toronto gauge is a trivial problem...

That’s not really a big deal. Other railways can have unique gauges. The new lines being built, not connected to the legacy system, is...

Yesterday was free-bike day but daum thats crazy amount of rides. makes you wonder if bikeshare could be completely free

Hamilton has had a 75 cent bike return feature for a while, it’s actually kind of fun. When I’m downtown, I’ll walk or ride bikes I find...

90% of bikes in use at 8am!? Bike Angels points in NYC sounds really cool. Not just about monetary rewards but gamification of points...

CBC did a report on Bike Share re-balancing problems

Simple 1) Publish a scope document, with timetable, outlining the tasks and projects needed to achieve 15 minute 2WAD for each of the...

Presentation to Toronto Executive Committee https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2025/ex/bgrd/backgroundfile-256252.pdf - Paul

I did get a little intel in some of the odd issues that were raised by the graphics in the Trillium article. First, the notion of...

Jack can you please do us all a favour and dig into why the hell finch has no opening date, despite metrolinx publicly declaring the...

As far as I'm concerned, the TTC should be doing anything and everything it possibly can to increase the speed of service on all...

The question of line management is a red herring because rationalizing stop spacing in no way hinders efforts to improve line...

https://www.thetrillium.ca/news/the-trillium-investigations/how-metrolinxs-plan-to-deliver-european-style-train-service-went-off-the-rail...