Sure the articles are encouraging to read, but haven't we heard this all before? And doesn't it still hinge on the feds kicking in their share of the dough?...
... What's going on these days on the hill should make funding transit a lot more likely. Between the stimulus benefit and the environmental benefits, funding...
... It's not clear Metrolinx will be depending on federal funding. The current plan is to use the committed $11B from the province to start, and to work out...
... Well, yes. Like you, I'll believe it when they put shovels in the ground. However, this isn't contingent on the fed money. The province has supposedly...
... a lot ... The current plan projects for the next 5 year capital process does not include funding from the Feds. The project list will only go as far as the...
It's at times like this that I wish that people could donate money to a cause like improving public transit-such as a registered charity, transit bonds,...
If US cannot do it, how do we do it for 50%?? The current new subway been built is seeing only 42% at best up in Thunderbay. The shell can be done here, but...
Well, earlier I was browsing another forum while procrastinating on homework (oh high school, how I hate thee), when I found a link to this youtube video,...
Funny stuff :-) "my gas-price remedy, take the 43 Kennedy" wonder what they could do next... "My Bus" - to the tune of "My Bu" "Low (floor)" - to the tune of...
I counter-offer "TTC Skidaddler" by Stompin' Tom Connors, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKDtZ6VMWds, and "The Toronto Subway Song", sung both forward and...
http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_29820.aspx Friday December 5, 2008 CityNews.ca Staff The world, it seems, is divided into two different kinds of people - ...
Talk about a poorly thought-out idea... The subway is the ONE and ONLY place I can get some peace and quiet without hearing some idiot talk on his/her...
... From: Mike Iszak To: transit-toronto@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 9:41 AM Subject: Re: <Transit-Toronto> Cellphones in the subway ... If...
I think a compromise solution can easily be reached in this that would make everyone happy and be implemented faster, and that's simply installing cell ...
Perhaps they could set it up so that only data and text messaging works in the subway. That would be a great way for the cell phone companies to sell their...
"Service should be up and running by 2010" - when Bell and Telus are due to rollout their GSM network. (It would be insanity to put in CDMA equipment only to...
I just had another thought - I wonder if the new YUS signalling and control system will be based in any part on GSM-R? I'm not too well up on the specs for...
So Bell and Telus have finally warmed up to GSM. That will make it a lot easier for customers to get better service. Personally, I like the idea of service in...
... From: Darwin O Connor To: transit-toronto@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:42 AM Subject: Re: <Transit-Toronto> Cellphones in the subway ...
... From: Mark Dowling To: transit-toronto@yahoogroups.com Sent: Friday, December 05, 2008 10:53 AM Subject: Re: <Transit-Toronto> Cellphones in the subway ...
The only place in transit travel where one can tune out one sided conversion is going to disappear sadly. Time to put the quit car on a train where one isn't...
How about wireless internet instead. Send and receive e-mails and surf the net. Nice and quiet. A. ________________________________ From: Darwin O Connor...
Well, this isn't really the place to get into much of a discussion of TDMA vs CDMA vs GSM. - that debate has been going on forever. Simply put, GSM is the...
I doubt it, as if I recall correctly, GSM-R isn't permitted in Canada due to radio regulatory issues, for the RF link layer. However, there's no technical...
there's mention of it here and many other phone-tech sites: http://www.berryreview.com/2008/10/21/telus-bell-announce-gsm-plan/ Essentially the intent to have...
It has been stated a number times that the 3rd track between Port Credit and Kerr St was to be completed by this year, then fall of 2009. But it will be...
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