u/differing

For the international folks, he’s arguably the most prolific right wing political ghoul in Canada. Genuinely shocked to see him bring up bike theft after ranting about bike lanes for years!

Oshawa’s nutty gondola project got me thinking about places where it might actually work well in Ontario.

What if instead of potentially spending billions and many years to extend Line 6 to Pearson… we built a modern gondola overhead. We could get it done for a fraction of the cost. With stations at Humber and Woodbine GO, we’d tie the Kitchener line to Line 6 and give major transit stations a rapid connection to the airport with low labour costs, decent throughput, and zero traffic. Entering from the Northeast at a similar height to the surrounding hotels in the area use would not interfere with runway operations.

Paris made a similar decision recently- extending the metro would be ludicrously expensive and require interacting with multiple rail lines and a freeway… so they decided to go overtop of all of it. It only took 3 years to get Câble C1 operating with 5 stations.

Crazy?

“Is Brendan Fraser on-call tonight?”

Can you imagine a truck attempting this delivery with two lines of parked cars!

Note: “Stephen Fagg” is the driver’s name, before someone gets upset!

After these massive bumpouts are completed, how are we going to run mass transit through an intersection with one lane in each North/South direction, while still allowing car traffic to turn? Beyond the current A Line "Express" getting stuck here, the HSRNext plans wants to send half the buses that currently stop at MacNab to West Harbour through this chokepoint. Turning traffic will not be able to clear the intersection in a light cycle because of the constant pedestrian foot traffic, forcing through traffic to be stuck waiting behind them. Turning traffic will be pushed to dart dangerously between pedestrians on a green, undermining the very Vision Zero goals this redesign was created for.

Did any professionals do a traffic study here or did we just reflexively go "Vision zero machine go BRRRRRRR"? I'm convinced we're going to run into this exact situation with the B Line LRT: the city will insist on safety measures that cripple the tram, forcing it to crawl through the city slower than a bus. If we had the political guts and voter support to ban car traffic on James this intersection plan would make some sense, but that's not going to happen any time soon. Am I missing something here?

(Edited and reposted with all humans and licence plates fully obscured as per the mods request...)

There’s a fairly upright endurance open mold on aliexpress that has an ideal geometry I’m looking for to update my Giant Defy build from 2018… but the most popular seller of it is Airwolf, which has a very polarizing reputation. CWind, who makes quite a few gravel frames and seems to be well liked, also produces the same frame, but it has basically no reviews. Am I making a mistake going with either frame? I’d be using my own FSA headset and stem, so I wouldn’t need to fart around with the typical budget headset drama.

I basically just want a Defy, but with more tire clearance. I’d swap all my Shimano 105 parts over to it and use my carbon wheels. The new Light Carbon endurance frame would otherwise be the top of my list, but the price is escalating and I’m not confident they’ll deliver in a reasonable time frame!

“What if I told you that you can reduce your car expenses by 2/3 with one simple trick”

Hopefully some local Hamiltonians will appreciate some West Harbour snark