Sydney Mentioned! UNSW mentioned!

Too contrast ICE’s actions in the USA, some pictures I found online taken by reporters when CBSA did some patrols/enforcement around the 2010 Olympics. Always in marked jackets and accompanied by local police. P.S. Sanctuary provisions are more limited here, meant for public services and victims.

Also by the way, our border control and enforcement has distinctive marked cars and jackets that say “BORDER SERVICES - SERVICES FRONTALIERS” or “CBSA - ASFC INLANd ENFORCEMENT” on the back or “RCMP - GRC POLICE” if it’s federal police.

And do not attempt any unauthorized flying.

A few Australia-specific factors: 1. The Fair Work Commission basically bans strikes so unions do weirder industrial action like driving slow, vandalizing their employers property with stickers or removable graffiti (AFP do it to their cars!), or locking open faregates (so passenger get in trouble)

TTC has an errror in their service summary quick reference sheet: it says there is no peak service but the details show there is.

That’s a little different with a single track terminus followed by two tail tracks so a couple trams can be stored hot during the offpeak or something. New Addington and Carlingford have two track termini with a short station-less section of single track before double track resumes.

Weird example I would never have expected: Parramatta Light Rail to avoid widening an overpass just before Carlingford Station.

Windsor Mayor Drew Dilken’s idea supported by Mayor Ford: put tolls on the urban approach roads to Ambassador Bridge and dispatch city bylaw officers to inspect the bridge’s compliance with municipal/provincial law and go after every infraction (including the width of letters on signs).

To be honest, he is a profitable dictator at our expense.

Ontario College of Pharmacists. You can get the points only when it is indirect through a credit card.

You said “security isn’t need till it is”. The yellow barricades do a similar job. They have been tested to stop a 16500 lb truck at speed but needs mo heavy machinery to put in place. www.vehicle-barriers.com/mvb3x-barrie...

These yellow barricades are designed to stop/demobilize hostile vehicles for security reasons. They are what will stop a guy in a pickup truck. And then the police come and take the driver away in handcuffs and tow the truck. They are also a better alternative to using dump trucks and old buses.

This seems to be a design flaw with the Umo system. BCTransit also says you must use the website not the app to reload an Umo card. Other systems like Toronto’s PRESTO and Sydney’s Opal card allow reloads in their respective travel apps. A workaround is using the website on your phone. umopass.com

Now, we basically already have it (all TTC termini have tail tracks). Finch (and the future High Tech Station on YNSE) have tail tracks (actually three, on of which will be accessible from both platform tracks). Vaughan protected for a third rail track accessible from both platform tracks.

Which is an interesting point because Anse-a-l’Orme’s design is basically that of Kipling and Kennedy and Vaughan MC which must handle up to 2.5 min headways; and Mount Dennis and Kennedy (Line 5) which must handle up to 3.5 minute headways.

REM does this at Deux Montagnes, they can at Brossard (which has three platforms for added flexibility) but they cannot at Anse-a-l’Orme

The CATO Institute ranks Canada has higher on freedom than the USA. Meanwhile, Freedom House ranks Canada at 97/100 while the USA is down at 81/100 (and declining from last report).

I’m excited that Ontario Line will have relay termini (side platforms at termini, island platforms everywhere else). I’ve called it out and back termini, but relay is a far better name! I really love the design and wish TTC used it. Finch Station on Line 1 could accomodate it already.

The TTC/City of Toronto design for Union Station Streetcar Loop as part of WELRT goes overkill with loops for underground, planning four platforms all with parallel passing/layover tracks and double crossovers. This is overkill for only three routes on two trunks (Bremner is a pipe dream).

Along with that, the weirdest thing has got to be that DC has no say in Congress. Australia has a similar federal territory housing their national capital of Canberra, but the residents of Australian Capital Territory elect two senators and three MPs, so they have a say at the national level.

Incomes up to 200 percent of poverty level.

Do you have a PRESTO card? Want a special FIFA one ($4 + $5 minimum balance)?

Sorry that’s not a NovaBus shown in the article but a New Flyer. This is a NovaBus

From what I’ve looked into, it seems the only commemorative plaque is one in the southbound tunnel at the site of the collies so not publicly visible (dangerous trespassing required to see it unless you have the luck of glimpsing it through the window of a passing train at speed). Online pic of it:

Except, Canada’s work has given us a far cleaner grid and cheaper grid than Australia has. Average electricity prices in NSW are DOUBLE the peak rate in Ontario. Ontario has no coal power generation; Queensland is half coal.

These sleepers don’t look right here. Should I tell GO Transit? Two of the sleepers north of the rail (picture taken facing south at Mimico Station Platform 1) don’t seem to even exist or are hidden by the ballast. There’s even a loose chunk of wooden tie. @wb62.bsky.social @gotransit.bsky.social

For another comparison, the NSW Police Force Traffic and Highway Patrol has, as of 2020, 1341 police officers serving a state with only just over double the City of Toronto’s population. It’s not one to one because TPS doesn’t need to do highways and Toronto is smaller than the entire state.

Did anyone attend the #Brampton #Georgetown sessions on Metrolinx’s CN Halton expansion TRPAP for the #GOKitchenerLine this week? I’m interested if anyone has any more information, fun facts, or public comments they heard than that share on the posted presentation deck. This is about GO-only tracks.

Fun fact, Constable Jon Burnside actually worked in traffic enforcement when he was at the Toronto Police Service in East Toronto.