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  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I think it’s very unclear what the effect of raising the speed limit on something like the 401.  Like I said earlier I don’t know of many highways that already have commonly accepted and practiced spe...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,235 05-06-2019, 03:56 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I’d be interested to know if the 400 series highways actually demonstrate that property of drivers going a general percentage over the speed limit.  Only because I don’t think I’ve ever experienced hi...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,235 05-05-2019, 09:49 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I’m curious what people think of the idea of increasing some 400-series highways to 120km/h. I generally agree with it but have always thought that the biggest problem isn’t speed but the very lar...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,235 05-05-2019, 02:18 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Yeah, moving the go station and track to accommodate an airport that has absolutely no demand for it, seems crazy. And it involves moving the commuter station to an area with no pedestrian traffic and...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,697 09-26-2018, 08:10 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
jgsz Wrote: (09-10-2018, 07:48 PM) -- The real issue is that a minority is pushing the majority around - again.  Ford got only 40.49 percent of the popular vote.  I fully understand how our electoral...
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 09-10-2018, 08:21 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-10-2018, 04:33 PM) -- Viewfromthe42 Wrote: (09-10-2018, 04:24 PM) -- Superior court justices are appointed federally, and in this case it would likely have been by Paul Mar...
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 09-10-2018, 06:26 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Tom, it’s subject to interpretation. If I hold my phone upside down the graph clearly shows the current crisis and increasing numbers!
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 07-04-2018, 07:30 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
embe Wrote: (07-03-2018, 09:12 PM) -- A topic about politics and holy smokes wouldn't you know it! There's a bit of disagreement, some data subject to interpretation, and a whole lot of emotion.  On ...
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 07-03-2018, 11:07 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Jeffster, I’ve been around long enough to know it’s not worth discussing issues with people that speak lies and refuse to recognize the facts as laid out. You want us to believe that you care about...
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 07-03-2018, 11:03 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Like if the government started taking children away from parents of a different political party it would be pretty stupid to argue that it’s not a big deal because we already take kids away from abusi...
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 07-03-2018, 08:14 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Jeffster, could you provide a quote from that article that says what you said? Because it seems to me to say the opposite of what you claimed. The immigration numbers are down and not up like you sa...
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 07-03-2018, 08:07 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
I agree. I think they’re generally treated unfairly in terms of go service and highway 7. Feels like a lot of unrealistic expectations.
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 05-26-2018, 08:48 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
And, of course the strategy works. So there’s that. :(
   SammyOES2 Politics 462 174,817 05-24-2018, 10:02 AM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit
It is pretty hard to take you seriously though based off of comments like your highway 7 one. Land is bought. Construction is literally in progress at the trickiest locations. And you can see wor...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,996 1,165,710 05-07-2018, 02:31 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
danbrotherston Wrote: (09-23-2017, 01:04 PM) -- Better than Jobmine?  That's debatable.  I certainly find it much worse. -- I find it significantly better for posting and managing multiple jobs ter...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,509,496 09-23-2017, 05:50 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
ijmorlan Wrote: (09-23-2017, 10:02 AM) -- Actually I’m talking about Quest, although I haven’t heard much good about JobMine. -- WaterlooWorks is just as silly. If you follow a link and aren't log...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,509,496 09-23-2017, 12:36 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Do they have 'timed' pedestrian crosssings? So you hit a beg button and then it doesn't activate until an appropriate time? Sometimes that's right away, sometimes thats synced to lights, sometim...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,235 09-22-2017, 10:16 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I don't know the area very well, but isn't that where a pedestrian crossing is useful? Where cars have to stop but can then proceed as soon as the pedestrian has cleared the road?
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,235 09-22-2017, 08:28 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
Definitely an appropriate honking situation.
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 3,111 2,223,235 09-20-2017, 11:56 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
There's been some examples (http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/newleaf-phoenix-flights-cancelled-westjet-blamed-1.3920153) where Westjet/Air Canada have run routes seemingly to cause their competit...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,697 09-17-2017, 10:27 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
We don't want the LRT to go to office buildings? That seems like one of the places we WANT it to go.  Getting people to commute by transit is the goal (imo), much more so then getting people to use...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 17,478 10,509,496 09-14-2017, 11:32 AM
  Thread: Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
It still helps.  It allows the section of the through/left lanes that come after the right turn lane separates to be full of cars going left and through (instead of having the turn-right cars sprinkle...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 233 194,750 09-13-2017, 03:15 PM
  Thread: Homer Watson and Ottawa Three Lane Roundabouts
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion
I suspect (but have no real evidence or experience) that when you have the majority of the traffic being on one road (as in opposite sides of the round about) - you can get long waits at the other two...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 233 194,750 09-13-2017, 03:06 PM
  Thread: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Post: RE: Highway 7 - Kitchener to Guelph
Hmm... it's almost like people can benefit from highways being built even when they're not the ones using them... [ducks]
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 927 824,991 09-11-2017, 05:12 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
I don't think this will have the noise issue that the other flight had. In the complainers defense, that plane really was quite loud.
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,697 09-11-2017, 04:52 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
jgsz Wrote: (09-11-2017, 02:09 PM) -- Does anyone know if this news will speed up the proposed Breslau GO station? -- There's a lot of things that have to happen before this is built - and they're ...
   SammyOES2 Transportation and Infrastructure 1,373 1,106,697 09-11-2017, 04:50 PM

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