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I think we overvalue the impact of different grade options in terms of how they affect redevelopment. Other characteristics seem to...

Building the North Central Green Line completely underground just seems so excessive to me. I can understand wanting to have the 16 Ave...

Good article! I'm of the mind that council should provide basic transit to everyone because we live in a society, and sack up and...

Most cities that build airport links find they underperform compared to other parts of their system. Airports are bad trip generators...

I was thinking more of these:

They do have a definite 'Caribbean Communist' look to them.. I suspect they'll age about as well. Say what you will about the Soviets...

Well, the first image is a photo and not a render, and Chinook uses a silver/metallic color instead of white Speaking of Chinook, the...

That particular car trap was strange, because it was there since the 90's, but even before West LRT no bus ever used it.

The single loop via the bus trap was proposed with the route realignment when the West LRT opened. I suspect these people complained...

90% design has been completed for the southeast, and some new renders are on the Green Line website. Note how the stations with bus...

I believe the frequency decreases on several routes this signup (including the 2) are just schedule padding for slower travel times...

Excellent proposal. Let's spin up a new organization to look into this, we will begin preparations in 2027. Before we publish our...

If the city wants to pay more it can pay more for an underground project. It will run into the same problem beyond the estimate: a...

To be fair it's equal to or better than the service levels the 30, 106 and 449 ran separately, and it fills in some gaps/missing...

Looks like there's a couple significant changes to the Winter Service Schedule...