*paint

WTF. Like a waste of money. I use the Ossington buses, if they have any problem it is traffic not fitting down the road. Like paid the lane red or add a bikelane to get rid of cyclists playing tag around buses (buses are faster but cyclists catch up during bus dwells) but don’t widen the lane.

Ahh. But plenty of places can handle buses on narrow lanes. The design drawings for Durham Scarborough BRT had 3.3m curb lanes in Scarborough, by the way. But other jurisdictions use ever narrower lanes. Transit service is such a weird excuse for dangerous roads.

What about narrowing the lanes?
What about adding roundabouts at intersections to make traffic have to swerve (note that police are trained how to take curves quickly as part of their pursuit training, so it’s going to slow normal drivers without inconveniencing emergency vehicles)?

Also why do automobile makers put such insane speeds on their vehicles speedometers where there’s no place with a speed limit that high (save the German autobahn without any speedlimit). Like you can’t go 154 on the highway either (luckily the OPP do more traffic enforcement than TPS).

"Safe Parkside" filed a Freedom of Information request to get top speeds from the ill-fated & much abused Parkside camera. The speed limit is 40km/h.

Killers, all of them, with the ear & heart of Premier Doug Ford.

In #Switzerland, fine for a speeding driver is based (1) on how far over the limit the driver is going
(2) on how much the driver earns.

One man caught driving his Ferrari at 137 km/h the in an 80 km/h zone in a village near St. Gallen was fined 300,000 Swiss Francs (today, $375,000 US).

🇨🇭🧵

So I shouldn’t tell the TTC about Transit Systems and Transdev John Holland buses in Sydney driving OVER roundabouts.

I remember you.
Followed back!

Fun fact I discovered. The first Harris car sets were built in England by the Gloucester Car company, using the same car body as the Toronto Subway’s G series subway trains used on Canada’s first subway in a solid red colour scheme. @longbranchmike.bsky.social
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harris_...

Why do the mayors look like they’re directing an airplane into a gate?
Flight AC33 to Cavendish Street!?

Drivers in Canada are lawless. They need to know that they will be punished swiftly and surely if they break the road rules. Either we spend billions (with a B) on more police to pull drivers over or we spend thousands in comparison on enforcement cameras to hit them in the wallet.

You don’t like bits of Boeing 777-200LR in your coffee, do you?

A pilot out in Nova Scotia seems to have had some fun yesterday.

www.flightaware.com/live/flight/...

It is different, I’m just using Carney as an example of what the mayor should have done back in 2014 or at least 2022 instead of doing nothing. If he wants to be mayor of a city in a country at war, he shouldn’t be a citizen of that country’s enemy.
The reporting does seem unclear on if he has it.

It seems like he has or had an active Russian passport since the Russian invasion of Crimea, which is rather wild for a government official of a country in active conflict to have citizenship of an enemy.
Carney renounced his British and Irish citizenships and Canada is not in conflict with either!

Still pretty summery just with some yellowed leaves in the trees.

How would you even do it for a system where many stations don’t have a concourse and are literally some stairs/elevator down to a platform? Putting the faregates on the platform would reduce usable platform space, creating a serious safety hazard. Putting at the entrance would require road space.

EDP?

Why does Sydney make such nice train stations and Toronto can’t seem to even electrify our trains!?

Have you tried checking if an academic or public library or employer subscribes to a website that provides access to the standards for viewing/downloading? You probably have but just thought I would ask.

Or Australia.
The State Library of NSW is also free (and I believe the council run local libraries are too). And museums and galleries are too, something I wish Canada did.

Another reason for Metrolink to electrify: their renewable diesel fleet isn't actually reducing emissions. #ElectrifyMetrolink