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Infrastructure Intercity Rail Ontario Transit Travels

The end of the line at Porcupine

Work has started on the new Timmins terminal for the Northlander train.

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Development Ontario Parks Transit Urban Planning

Why Wasaga Beach needs to be open to all

Wasaga Beach is a treasure of provincial significance. It deserves to remain owned by the public and fully open to all, with better access to those who can’t or don’t want to drive.

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Development Infrastructure Ontario Transit Urban Planning

Buses to the big box

Transit operators in Ontario generally do a much better job than American counterparts at serving large retailers like Walmart. Still, big box retail centres are hostile environments for transit and pedestrian access.

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Infrastructure Mississauga Roads Transit Urban Planning Walking

Deadly by design: Burnhamthorpe Road

Mississauga City Centre has many good places to walk to, but still has too many trappings of a suburban speedway

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Brampton Design Development Urban Toronto

Downtown Brampton’s next chapter

After nearly two decades of little change, Downtown Brampton may finally be turning the corner from being a sleepy town centre to becoming the proper hub for a city of nearly 800,000. Both public squares will be redesigned and rebuilt within the next few years, and the city is looking for your feedback.

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About me Design Infrastructure Walking

Live from the CBC mothership

Yesterday, on Wednesday, May 7, I had the privilege of appearing on the long-running CBC Radio program Metro Morning. Though I have been interviewed on the radio a few times before – generally about pedestrian safety or transit issues – this was the first time I was asked to come into the studio. I spoke […]

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Infrastructure Ontario Roads Transit

BRT comes to London

London’s rapid transit project, scaled down due to cost-cutting and local opposition, has serious challenges that will have to be overcome for it to become successful.

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Maps Ontario Transit

Intercity map updates for April 2025

As we enter Spring 2025, there are a few significant changes in Ontario’s intercity transportation services. A new daily GO Transit route will now connect Six Nations and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation with Brantford, Hamilton, and Greater Toronto. A new seasonal Waterloo-Burlington weekend express could foreshadow more direct service between Kitchener/Waterloo and […]

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Infrastructure Roads Toronto Walking

Dysfunction junction: permanent obstructions at Union Station

Toronto can, and should, do better than the ugly and intrusive new barriers that are being installed around Union Station.

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Brampton Canada Development History Toronto

The fall of an empire

After 355 years, and several years of noticeable decline, Canada’s oldest corporation and last department store comes to an ignoble end.