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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.

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Canada Infrastructure Intercity Rail Ontario Transit Travels

North by northwest: a short winter jaunt

Many people choose to go south for the winter. I went north, taking trains and buses through Northern Ontario and Manitoba.

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Cycling Ontario Transit Urban Planning Walking

How a transit authority has become a barrier to active mobility

It is frustrating when an agency tasked with “[connecting] new, established and emerging communities across the Greater Golden Horseshoe” fails to connect the communities its transit projects run through.

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Praise for the vernacular relics

An early tower of power has been thoughtfully preserved in Hamilton, a small, but important reminder of the city’s industrial history.

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Infrastructure Toronto Transit Walking

A small step towards better wayfinding at Union Station

New elevator directory signage is a notable improvement, but there’s far more to be done to make Union Station an easy place to navigate.

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About me

A quick note regarding my social media

In late 2024, I phased out my use of the social media website previously known as Twitter; by November of last year, I completely deactivated my account. Though I spent a lot of time on Twitter since 2012, when I first joined to follow City Hall news, I found it to be less and less […]

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Infrastructure Intercity Rail Toronto Transit Walking

Dysfunction Junction: another Union Station malfunction

Union Station remains very difficult to get around using a mobility device, especially when traveling between UP Express and the TTC Subway.

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Development Infrastructure Transit Travels Urban Planning

Another American streetcar, another disappointment

The DC Streetcar is another example of pretty much everything wrong with modern streetcar implementations.