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  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

LesPio Wrote: (01-09-2025, 01:35 PM) -- Ford directs Metrolinx to study GO Transit expansion by diverting freight rails -- How much you wanna bet that the optimum route to do a diversion of freight...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,077 1,296,504 01-10-2025, 01:16 PM
  Thread: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
Post: RE: GO Transit

Momo26 Wrote: (12-29-2024, 02:10 PM) -- Are significantly more people travelling to and from TOR to MTL vs TOR/GTA out west to KWC and London? -- Yes, the traffic numbers on the 401 should show tha...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 454 419,445 12-30-2024, 12:20 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit

Momo26 Wrote: (12-28-2024, 03:38 PM) -- Just caught a commercial of Ford's on YT I think where he days we are REMOVING bike lanes. I know much as been said on the topic already but look at that ap...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 17,510 11,466,537 12-29-2024, 02:10 PM
  Thread: High-Speed Rail (HSR) - Toronto/Pearson/Kitchener/London
Post: RE: GO Transit

Momo26 Wrote: (12-28-2024, 03:29 PM) -- Doesn't matter who is leading it. There is so much red tape you could line it across from BC to PEI and back and have tape left over. The solutions seems pr...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 454 419,445 12-29-2024, 01:40 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

Momo26 Wrote: (12-05-2024, 07:58 PM) -- You are arguing the wrong person. I spend a lot of time and money supporting downtown. -- I mean, you did get the name of the Christkindl Market wrong, and y...
  Bytor Urban Areas 547 121,813 12-06-2024, 03:46 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

tomh009 Wrote: (12-05-2024, 02:23 PM) -- Momo26 Wrote: (12-05-2024, 12:56 PM) -- You got your handful of events...you got Oktoberfest festivities, on which a bow is placed and it's called Kris Kring...
  Bytor Urban Areas 547 121,813 12-05-2024, 05:27 PM
  Thread: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment
Post: RE: Charles St GRT terminal redevelopment

Momo26 Wrote: (12-02-2024, 05:35 PM) -- I suppose I could add to that a wholesome underground parking garage a la Distillery District Toronto since we seem to have a parking problem in DTK. Go big...
  Bytor Urban Areas 547 121,813 12-05-2024, 04:55 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub

the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (11-04-2024, 02:18 PM) -- Absent any other exciting announcements for the rail corridor, this news from the UT forum states that some of the work on passing tracks has reache...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 1,219 1,149,690 11-16-2024, 10:56 PM
  Thread: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News
Post: RE: General Food, Dining and Nightlife News

The renovations had better be abso-fricking-lutely amazing, given how long they took.
  Bytor Food, Dining and Nightlife 2,395 2,216,967 11-08-2024, 07:38 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail

Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: (11-06-2024, 08:57 PM) -- I just want, at the very least, a true high speed rail corridor from Windsor to Quebec city to connect up all the major cities in that part of Canada. Id...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 299 211,846 11-08-2024, 07:32 PM
  Thread: VIA Rail
Post: RE: VIA Rail

Now if only we could get the Feds to give them the money for not just that "HFR" corridor, but also to increase frequency everywhere.
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 299 211,846 10-29-2024, 06:08 PM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

I would just like somebody to explain to me the logic behind the assertion that bike lanes make things more dangerous.
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 3,249 2,420,802 10-22-2024, 05:05 PM
  Thread: Finacialization of the rental market
Post: RE: Finacialization of the rental market

plam Wrote: (09-12-2024, 11:36 PM) -- Bytor Wrote: (09-12-2024, 05:01 PM) -- "May be"? Sheesh. Journalists with no daring. I've been pointing out the "financialization" of housing for years becau...
  Bytor Urban Issues 7 1,084 10-02-2024, 12:27 PM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class

nms Wrote: (09-13-2024, 05:51 PM) -- Once challenge for the Polievre Conservatives will be how to replace the lost revenue if they follow through on their promise to remove the carbon tax. After 40+ ...
  Bytor Politics 156 42,645 10-02-2024, 11:59 AM
  Thread: General Road and Highway Discussion
Post: RE: General Road and Highway Discussion

dtkvictim Wrote: (09-20-2024, 10:11 PM) -- I wonder if this means any improvements to Benton/Frederick, Victoria & King, and I'm sure some other projects are dead? Are the Lancaster changes removing ...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 3,249 2,420,802 10-02-2024, 11:54 AM
  Thread: Taxation and the middle class
Post: RE: Taxation and the middle class

ludo643 Wrote: (08-27-2024, 04:22 AM) -- ijmorlan Wrote: (08-01-2024, 12:59 PM) --  Also I’d like to see the occasional discussion of “we’d like to do this for all of us, but we have to pay for it s...
  Bytor Politics 156 42,645 09-12-2024, 05:24 PM
  Thread: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours
Post: RE: General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

Momo26 Wrote: (09-04-2024, 10:46 PM) -- Question for you architects and arm chair quarter back architects... Would you prefer a building like this to anything that has popped up in DTK (or Waterlo...
  Bytor Urban Areas 5,749 4,339,762 09-12-2024, 05:03 PM
  Thread: Finacialization of the rental market
Post: RE: Finacialization of the rental market

"May be"? Sheesh. Journalists with no daring. I've been pointing out the "financialization" of housing for years because of the low interest rates, though I never used that term. I usually called i...
  Bytor Urban Issues 7 1,084 09-12-2024, 05:01 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

ludo643 Wrote: (08-23-2024, 02:16 PM) -- Totally agree! Adjusting service levels based on ridership makes sense. -- Ridership depends in large part of service level, though. If you reduce ridership...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,815 09-11-2024, 04:11 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

Momo26 Wrote: (09-09-2024, 07:52 PM) -- Man we can certainly dream.  I need to bust out a huge map on a wall and start planning out ideal routes. Wasn't the now-scrapped like 1 or 2 a day LO...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,077 1,296,504 09-11-2024, 04:01 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

neonjoe Wrote: (09-06-2024, 09:13 AM) -- Move the bus terminal off of Glasgow and there would be a well integrated connection. -- What bus terminal on Glasgow do you mean?
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,077 1,296,504 09-11-2024, 03:54 PM
  Thread: GO Transit
Post: RE: GO Transit

Momo26 Wrote: (09-05-2024, 03:44 PM) -- Re that Breslau station...that would be new last stop correct? Or come before Kitchener? -- No. It will be a new intermediate stop. Why would they make it th...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 2,077 1,296,504 09-11-2024, 03:47 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region

tomh009 Wrote: (08-13-2024, 10:55 AM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (08-13-2024, 10:03 AM) -- The depth of the freezing is clearly different but we do get frost on the ground some days. But I’d never ...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,789 3,261,923 08-19-2024, 04:06 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

dtkvictim Wrote: (08-17-2024, 01:51 AM) -- Bytor Wrote: (08-16-2024, 07:30 PM) -- It's not a zero-sum game. That's a bankrupt mentality, giving into the "no new taxes" of neoliberalism. Every dollar...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,815 08-17-2024, 05:36 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

tomh009 Wrote: (08-16-2024, 08:53 AM) -- As you said, it's always a choice of how to spend a given budget. Will more buses in the summer gain more ridership than adding frequency on, say, route 7? Or...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,815 08-16-2024, 07:43 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit

tomh009 Wrote: (08-15-2024, 07:11 PM) -- It's ultimately a zero-sum game, though. I you decide to run more buses when utilization is low, you'll need to run fewer buses somewhere else. -- It's not ...
  Bytor Transportation and Infrastructure 4,463 3,517,815 08-16-2024, 07:30 PM

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