Grand River Transit

[Canard]

That's a great idea, Mark - isn't that how the Spurline Trail got funded and built so quickly by Metrolinx?

[danbrotherston]

It is exactly but it is a shame the spur line trail was a "nice to have".

[KevinL]

Platform extension at Charles Terminal for the GO buses is mostly complete.

[BuildingScout]

That's a great idea, Mark - isn't that how the Spurline Trail got funded and built so quickly by Metrolinx?

From what I heard that is how the M3 building got built. Someone asked, on a lark, for blueprints at a time where there was zero chance it would get built. The blueprints sat in a drawer for a couple of years until the recession hit and the government asked for shovel-ready projects. The M3 blueprints were the only ones lying around in the entire university, as such the project didn't even have to compete with others within the university to be placed forward.

[Pheidippides]

Per capita we did ok with funding:
   

[ijmorlan]

That's a great idea, Mark - isn't that how the Spurline Trail got funded and built so quickly by Metrolinx?

From what I heard that is how the M3 building got built. Someone asked, on a lark, for blueprints at a time where there was zero chance it would get built. The blueprints sat in a drawer for a couple of years until the recession hit and the government asked for shovel-ready projects. The M3 blueprints were the only ones lying around in the entire university, as such the project didn't even have to compete with others within the university to be placed forward.

I’m not unusually well informed about M3, but if they had blueprints drawn up I doubt that it was on a lark. A Dean of Mathematics (I don’t know when this was so I don’t know who it would have been) or somebody high up in the Dean’s office would most likely have commissioned the blueprints, and the value of their action was proven when the funding came along.

This is why nobody can tell whether executives are doing their job properly. In this case, their money is well-earned, and if most of their decisions were at this level of skill, they were underpaid.

[DKsan]

Per capita we did ok with funding:

Apparently, it also is calculated and doled out by ridership.

The GTHA municipalities will be getting funding soon.

[Viewfromthe42]

As we're starting to resemble GTA more than Sudbury in terms of transit employed (bus, express bus, LRT, GO), the funding per capita should start to go up.

[BuildingScout]

From what I heard that is how the M3 building got built. Someone asked, on a lark, for blueprints at a time where there was zero chance it would get built. The blueprints sat in a drawer for a couple of years until the recession hit and the government asked for shovel-ready projects. The M3 blueprints were the only ones lying around in the entire university, as such the project didn't even have to compete with others within the university to be placed forward.

I’m not unusually well informed about M3, but if they had blueprints drawn up I doubt that it was on a lark. A Dean of Mathematics (I don’t know when this was so I don’t know who it would have been) or somebody high up in the Dean’s office would most likely have commissioned the blueprints, and the value of their action was proven when the funding came along.

This is why nobody can tell whether executives are doing their job properly. In this case, their money is well-earned, and if most of their decisions were at this level of skill, they were underpaid.

Hmm, as best as I understand "on a lark" means just for fun, with no real purpose, which is how it was done.

I do think this person acted correctly, and showed the value of dreaming beyond what is currently achievable. Because of this he was prepared when the conditions suddenly changed in his favour.

[yige_t]

Looking at the GTFS for Fall Schedule, looks like there will be standardization of destination sign formatting.

All linear routes (except 7, 8, 10) will follow the [# ROUTE to Destination] format. Examples:

2 FOREST HEIGHTS to Westheights
4 GLASGOW to The Boardwalk
11 COUNTRY HILLS to Forest Glen
12 WESTMOUNT to Fairview Park
13 LAURELWOOD to SJAM
21 ELMIRA to Arthur/Church
33 HURON to Huron Village via Trillium
34 BINGEMANS to Shirley/Victoria
52 CORONATION to Ainslie via Preston Pkwy

"...to Downtown" will change to "...to Charles Terminal".

http://www.regionofwaterloo.ca/opendatad...T_GTFS.zip

[Canard]

...M3?

[timio]

Math 3 at uWaterloo. The latest math building.

[Markster]

This is some new information!

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/rideIONrt">@rideIONrt</a> Block Line major private developmnt proposed integrated with LRT &amp;new GRT terminal. $2mil yesterdy <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wrLRT?src=hash">#wrLRT</a> <a href="https://t.co/wFaqC4rK9T">pic.twitter.com/wFaqC4rK9T</a></p>&mdash; Tom Galloway (@tomjgalloway14) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomjgalloway14/status/768532092124733441">August 24, 2016</a></blockquote>

A major private development?
I wonder what the scale of this proposed terminal and development is!

[rangersfan]

What does he mean by 2 mil? That the developer would be contributing 2 million dollars to a project for public benefit( a public good)?
Could this development already have been approved?

This is both confusing and intriguing.

[KevinL]

I think he might mean that $2m of the Ontario/Fed transit funding announced yesterday is going into the terminal, but that it wil be integrated into a private development.