Recent content by darwink

Maintaining two major runways same as YVR divided over fewer passengers it sucks. A problem of Canada’s model I guess. But if we changed the model to one where let’s say the feds maintained all the runways, Calgary money would be going to Halifax and Winnipeg — would Calgary end up ahead or...

I'm not sure. The theory is correct. The capital issue certainly has raised its head with Flair. That being said, I don't think it is the the only determinate. Right now a big one, for the outside observor, is a captain and first officer shortage. Another airline starting up and absorbing more...

Communication based train control is a standard for allowing the communication of train location at high precision, that can enable various train control systems, such as moving block in many contexts. A block is an area that one train can be in that a train control system will limit a second...

Higher property taxes in Calgary, lease versus ownership, a different capital structure for tax purposes (they can have different entities owning the land versus the buildings), and they've been burned before where they had to abandon facilities at a federally owned airport. Full ownership and...

Trying to automate in Edmonton for their tunnel segment created a world of hurt. I am skeptical as whether they've achieved it, or just quietly abandoned it for a workable solution.

A nice to have for sure. A need, no.

Yeah. Numbers I’ve seen is $5 million a station of saving ($7–>$2) but that is old. If land acquisition is a concern or integration into existing street front retail (like 7th Ave when rebuilt) you can see the appeal and cost savings. Whether worth it?

Ottawa's initial fault was a super weird one: culture. Local culture was that if the bus was closing its doors, sticking out a hand or arm into the door was an okay thing to do--the door would open, people would continue to load for a few more seconds, and you'd be on your way. The LRVs, if this...

reducing the costs of certain types of stations. Whether 10 stations of savings is entirely negated by requiring a single larger underground station box, let alone 3 or 4, is what mattered for the purposes of technology choice for previous versions of the Greenline. If high floor LRT is the...

In the competition to replace the Toronto streetcars, bids were offered more points for a 100% low floor design. The aesthetic preferences of councillors who were around between 2010 and 2015. Which to be fair, if there weren't advocates then this project would never have been jumped started...

It is slower than the bus it replaced iirc. It’s a weird project, driven by politics more than anything.

Probably not, unless the CPR mainline is being twinned as part of an export capacity project (it should!) When this gets consolidated into the regional rail thread, I think its good to remind everyone that a really good rail map exists. You can toggle on level crossings and mile posts, zoom in...

On the small churches they guessed really wrong. Each ended up closer to $10 million than the less than $1 million each predicted. Likely in attempting to value the land they used market value, the market value for them as residential likely, rather than the expropriation standard, heads of...

Yeah. I remember hearing but can’t remember where that 40% of emergency capacity was now being absorbed by the opioid crisis/adjacent patients. I think a lot of problems that we have, we try to dream up complicated causes and similarly complicated solutions. For Canada, rolling back rents and...

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