Looking at Canadian public transport, urbanism, and modernism
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I’ll start off by saying that even with all the criticism and foul language I’m about to hurl at Alto, I am actually in favour of moving forward with high speed rail.
In the final weeks of 2024 I found myself ready to once again start writing about Canadian public transport.
And why it might not happen in 2025 either….
How the staggering growth in the adoption of TOD on the GO train network requires a re-evaluation of whether we are ready to handle it properly
A brief history of passenger rail in contemporary Canada from 1990 until today
A brief history of passenger rail in contemporary Canada from 1960 until 1989
It's time to put the essential remote service into the hands of a competent agency that understands the region
How this project is fast becoming a once in a generation boondoggle and a scandal in the making
How the first Dutch high speed rail line failed to meet its original vision 14 years after launching its first services, and what North America can learn from it.
How an unlikely passenger rail project for Northern Ontario came to be, and why it calls almost all conventional thinking about trains in Canada into question.
