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  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
tomh009 Wrote: (06-19-2025, 10:49 AM) -- There are only 200-300 new commercial pilot licences issued per year at the moment, but the commercial pilot workforce is aging fast, so there will be a need ...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,450 1,247,442 06-20-2025, 03:44 AM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
SammyOES Wrote: (06-19-2025, 09:38 AM) -- I just saw an ad from the flight school at the airport and it said: Quote: -- Nearly 20% of total commercial pilot licenses in Canada are graduates of ...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,450 1,247,442 06-19-2025, 09:56 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
Momo26 Wrote: (06-12-2025, 10:26 PM) -- I thought if you have an employer sponsored benefits insurance plan, something like a broken bone would be $0 out of pocket... I do know of someone who has go...
   danbrotherston Politics 597 234,551 06-13-2025, 03:31 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
The economic argument isn't actually so simple. Yeah, if you're a developer working at a FAANG company earning top dollar maybe you come out ahead. But I had a co-op term in Seattle...one of my friend...
   danbrotherston Politics 597 234,551 06-12-2025, 01:14 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
As long as they don't do what they did at Fairway and move the platform way away from the Mall.
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,498 3,617,864 06-03-2025, 03:45 PM
  Thread: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
Post: RE: Region of Waterloo International Airport - YKF
plam Wrote: (06-02-2025, 06:03 AM) -- SammyOES Wrote: (06-01-2025, 12:51 AM) -- I’d love to see demographics but I don’t think this is the issue at all.  The general region is growing fast enough th...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,450 1,247,442 06-02-2025, 07:29 AM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
ZEBuilder Wrote: (05-31-2025, 05:21 PM) -- creative Wrote: (05-31-2025, 07:26 AM) -- Could the city borrow to pay for new infrastructure and then use the new tax dollars derived from these new devel...
   danbrotherston Urban Issues 549 313,591 05-31-2025, 06:26 PM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
creative Wrote: (05-31-2025, 03:15 PM) -- You obviously have not been following this thread. The concern that was being discussed was that development charges on new homes, be it sprawl communities o...
   danbrotherston Urban Issues 549 313,591 05-31-2025, 04:06 PM
  Thread: Grand River Transit
Post: RE: Grand River Transit
the_conestoga_guy Wrote: (05-31-2025, 07:40 AM) -- Bob_McBob Wrote: (05-31-2025, 02:10 AM) -- Peak ac3r right here. You're the singular reason I rarely post on WRC anymore. -- Same here. I have them...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,498 3,617,864 05-31-2025, 11:12 AM
  Thread: Population and Housing
Post: RE: Population and Housing
creative Wrote: (05-31-2025, 07:26 AM) -- Could the city borrow to pay for new infrastructure and then use the new tax dollars derived from these new developments to pay down the loan? Does the math ...
   danbrotherston Urban Issues 549 313,591 05-31-2025, 09:53 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
So, this discussion is a bit off track, I'm not sure if there's a thread about signals. But since it came through my youtube feed, I thought this was worth posting. Now keep in mind, when I was speak...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,804 3,391,888 05-20-2025, 01:46 PM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
ZEBuilder Wrote: (05-16-2025, 08:47 AM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (05-16-2025, 07:41 AM) -- I have never been impressed by the Region's traffic signal staff. They presented to ATAC a while back and w...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,804 3,391,888 05-16-2025, 09:09 AM
  Thread: Cycling in Waterloo Region
Post: RE: Cycling in Waterloo Region
ZEBuilder Wrote: (05-16-2025, 06:43 AM) -- dtkvictim Wrote: (05-16-2025, 01:00 AM) -- Good info. I don't know of many places in the Region that detect bicycles though, and I don't think that ever ha...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 4,804 3,391,888 05-16-2025, 07:41 AM
  Thread: Bus Megathread
Post: RE: Bus Megathread
tomh009 Wrote: (05-12-2025, 10:20 AM) -- ac3r Wrote: (05-12-2025, 12:06 AM) -- Until the technology is further progressed, there's really no reason to be attempting to make these en masse because it...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 30 3,097 05-12-2025, 11:11 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Momo26 Wrote: (05-10-2025, 09:04 AM) -- https://www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/article/region-of-waterloo-considering-alternative-to-lrt-in-cambridge/ “A staff person talked about option 5 or plan 5 which...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 17,559 11,850,120 05-10-2025, 10:53 AM
  Thread: Bus Megathread
Post: RE: Bus Megathread
Rainrider22 Wrote: (05-09-2025, 10:48 AM) -- Actually, for every Kilo Watt Hour of electricity produced by renewables. (Wind or Solar), we require the same amount of production in the form of "instan...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 30 3,097 05-09-2025, 03:44 PM
  Thread: Bus Megathread
Post: RE: Bus Megathread
tomh009 Wrote: (05-08-2025, 04:33 PM) -- plam Wrote: (05-08-2025, 03:51 AM) -- Usually one worries about peak demand and off-peak renewables generation, hence needs batteries, but I suspect that hyd...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 30 3,097 05-08-2025, 05:20 PM
  Thread: Bus Megathread
Post: RE: Bus Megathread
plam Wrote: (05-08-2025, 03:51 AM) -- tomh009 Wrote: (05-07-2025, 07:09 PM) -- They could turn off the gas plants (and US exports) and we'd have near-zero CO2 from electrical power generation. -- U...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 30 3,097 05-08-2025, 05:37 AM
  Thread: Bus Megathread
Post: RE: Bus Megathread
Vojnik_Vahaj Wrote: (05-06-2025, 06:48 PM) -- I'm pretty sure that Ontario gets most of its electricity from nuclear and hydroelectric, with coal subsidizing occasionally and temporarily when demands...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 30 3,097 05-07-2025, 12:53 AM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
westwardloo Wrote: (05-05-2025, 02:07 PM) -- danbrotherston Wrote: (05-05-2025, 11:29 AM) -- Since this desiccated mummified horse corpse continues to get beaten here. Jason Slaughter made a video a...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 17,559 11,850,120 05-05-2025, 02:41 PM
  Thread: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Post: RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
Since this desiccated mummified horse corpse continues to get beaten here. Jason Slaughter made a video about how Trams (LRT) is the best urban transit mode for cities. I tend to agree with some cavea...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 17,559 11,850,120 05-05-2025, 11:29 AM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
I gotta say...that really gave me an honest to goodness laugh.
   danbrotherston Politics 597 234,551 05-01-2025, 04:19 PM
  Thread: General Politics Discussion
Post: RE: General Politics Discussion
creative Wrote: (04-30-2025, 05:08 PM) -- Kodra24 Wrote: (04-30-2025, 04:19 PM) -- How fitting - taking a page out of the Liberals censorship playbook -- Would it be ok for me to say that most peopl...
   danbrotherston Politics 597 234,551 05-01-2025, 01:11 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
panamaniac Wrote: (04-30-2025, 11:57 AM) -- You overlook how fundamental its manufacturing history is to Kitchener's identity. -- I do? I lived in the city for 15 years. I know some of the history....
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,233 1,191,912 04-30-2025, 01:28 PM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
ZEBuilder Wrote: (04-30-2025, 08:43 AM) -- westwardloo Wrote: (04-30-2025, 08:15 AM) -- This whole building should have been demolished in 2015 when the original Transit Hub was proposed. It is not ...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,233 1,191,912 04-30-2025, 10:50 AM
  Thread: King-Victoria Transit Hub
Post: RE: King-Victoria Transit Hub
westwardloo Wrote: (04-30-2025, 08:15 AM) -- This whole building should have been demolished in 2015 when the original Transit Hub was proposed. It is not a special factory building and its built way...
   danbrotherston Transportation and Infrastructure 1,233 1,191,912 04-30-2025, 08:41 AM

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