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I disagree. The first thing I noted on the Ottawa cars on their first day in service was the uneven and sometimes monsterous panel...

That is absolutely a way that a bridge can be built. But that's not how these ones will be built. The beams that have been delivered...

I disagree because the two have different ownership and exist in two different regulatory environments. The use of either is context...

Wilson Yard was the small 5-track yard immediately south of, and at a lower elevation to, Don Yard. Don Yard was a CN facility, Wilson...

No, the parallel would be if SNCF started to suggest and plan for things that were anywhere from against the regulations to downright...

That access has always been exit only, and from day 1 of the subway. Go use it, and try and figure out where you can put a fareline...

In large part, it's taken a fair amount of the guesswork out of the engineer's jobs. They now know exactly where they need to slow down...

The stations for the Ontario Line at Dundas and Queen are being built as much longer bridges than the bridges already in place for the...

There's ZERO enforcement. There's people who think it's okay or adds to the 'city feel' and there's super delayed clean up. So this is...

The initial stage of construction - the one the trains are running on now - is temporary, and will still need to be rebuilt in a future...

Incorrect. You have misunderstood it. The psychology says otherwise. We have an emotional attachment to it. An employee in many cases...

I'm not so sure that there's "nothing happening" when it comes to the bike lanes. New signals were installed a couple of weeks ago at...

It makes no sense whatsoever to have Toronto to Peterborough as its own phase in the context of ALTO. It has been said that the...

It's railfan jargon, nothing official. If there is one thing that railfans are really good at, it's coming up with inane names and...

There are no conductors are VIA trains. The word online is that 2 Service Managers on the train - one in each half - for this service. Dan