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Infrastructure Ontario Transit Walking

A visit to GO Transit’s New Old Elm Station

GO Transit’s new Stouffville Line terminal overlooked one important detail.

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Ontario Travels Urban Planning

The decline of Downtown Chatham Centre

Anchored by Sears, Chatham’s downtown mall declined later than other failed urban shopping centres in Ontario, but is now a dead mall. What will be its future?

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Design Transit

The case against transit advertisement wraps

Transit wraps that cover passenger windows are unpopular with customers, they diminish the transit agency’s brand, and bring in a very small amount of revenue. Why do transit agencies do this?

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Brampton Transit

An innovation in station naming rights?

The Brampton Innovation District, in the city’s downtown core, is one of the great things going in my hometown. Yet, I still feel uneasy about renaming the station there.

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Maps Ontario Transit

The slow way to Peterborough

Peterborough has useful GO bus service, but it’s a slow ride from Toronto. New coach bus competitors offer speed, but not much else. There’s an opportunity to do better here.

I also updated my Ontario Intercity Transit map for September 2023.

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About me Cycling Toronto

How Sean got his bike back

On Saturday August 19, while my spouse and I were paying a visit to the renewed AKG Art Gallery in Buffalo, a thief broke into our building and made off with my bicycle. The well-equipped thief broke into our building’s front entrance using a pry bar, and then used a heavy-duty bolt cutter to cut […]

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Maps Toronto Transit

Line 3: struck from the maps

Line 3 – the Scarborough RT – is gone from the TTC’s maps. But what’s left on is even more puzzling.

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Infrastructure Transit Travels

Automatic for the people: Riding Montreal’s new REM

North America’s newest rapid transit service, the Réseau express métropolitain (REM), opened on Monday, July 31, 2023 after a weekend of free public rides. I took my first ride several weeks later, on August 22, 2023. The five stop, 16.6-kilometre line between Central Station and Autoroute 30 in Brossard, is the first of four phases […]

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Brampton Intercity Rail Ontario

Lost in the weeds: OBRY, 18 months later

A return to the abandoned Orangeville-Brampton Railway, 18 months after the last train left Orangeville

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Cycling Infrastructure Parks Travels Walking

Chicago’s 606: an urban rail trail

Chicago shows how to build a great multiuse path in an urban setting