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Urban Rail in Africa
One thing people have long requested from me is coverage of Africa. This is, sadly, one of the few big items I never got around to tackling in a big way, for a number of reasons — lack of good photography and footage and generally hard to wrangle information among them. This isn’t uniform across…
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Now is the time for Canada to Invest in Transit
I’m sorry I have not written in a while: between raising a kid and having your country’s next door neighbour attack your country, it has been a tiring and stressful time. Make sure you’re subscribed because I hope to get back into the groove of things in the coming weeks. Canada is under attack by…
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Off-Topic: My Goals for 2025
This year (I know, it’s almost February), I’m going to expand my “Off-Topic” posting quite a bit, so I’m not longer going to be marking these posts as such… because now they are on topic! I wrote a post last year on my goals for 2024, and I found it nice to be able to…
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The Metrolinx Conundrum
The Toronto region, and by extension Canada, need Metrolinx to deliver. The agency is infamous for the now half-decade-late Eglinton Crosstown subway/tram project, and despite this has been tasked with delivering over $100 billion CAD of transit projects. These are projects that are urgently needed, not only to fight crippling congestion both on roads and…
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The Many Problems of “Transit City”
I’ve put off writing this article for a long time, because “Transit City” was a transit plan for Toronto pushed forth by political juggernauts and strong voices on transit. As Rob Ford (my thoughts on whom should be obvious) cancelled this plan right when he was elected, there is a strong sense that since this…
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Off Topic: Why I’ve Been Blogging Less, and Why I’ll Be Blogging More
It’s been a long time since I’ve written a blog post, and a big reason for that is that blogging has always been the pressure relief valve on my brain when I have stuff to say and not enough room to make the videos to discuss. Given I am a new parent, my desire to…
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If you like transit, you need to use it.
Hello dearest readers! If you’re reading this, it’s quite possible you’ve noticed my blog has fallen off of my regular weekly schedule. Suffice to say, a new transit rider has come into my life and things have been a bit crazy. In the meantime, posts may be a little scattered, but I’d like to think…
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The Future of Ottawa’s Trillium Line
Ottawa’s O-Train Trillium Line, or Line 2, is a very interesting diesel “light rail” line that is really more like an islanded European interurban train line, originally opened with European DMUs (literally part of a DB order) and signalling, with 5 basic stops and reasonably frequent service. The original “O-Train” was a real success story…
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Toronto’s Transit Engoodening — Part 5: Where will we go next?
This article is the fifth part of a series of articles “Where will things be in a decade? Toronto’s Transit Engoodening”. Check out the previous parts in this series if you haven’t yet! Of course, I think it’s only natural to start asking and planning for the projects which come next. I do think it’s…