For anyone’s who’s grown up in North America, I don’t think we understand the appeal of proper train travel. Convenient, regular, extensive, nearly-always-ontime train travel. It’s an exotic notion to us, riding the rails. Something from a distant time or done in distant lands.
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So,
I’m sitting around, minding my own business, scrolling through the afternoon news feeds when I startle across this headline:
John Tory says he hasn’t ruled out another run for mayor
And I’m like,
are you fucking kidding me with that?! Continue reading
Once upon a time there was Transit City.
It was a plan to build public transit (‘Moving Toronto Into the Future’), modest in the sense of seeming achievable in a reasonable time frame and at a feasible cost. 
Both levels of government, municipal and provincial, were on board and, despite a scaling back of projects by the province in the face of the 2008 recession (brewing bad blood between Queen’s Park and City Hall that would open the door to bad faith actors intent on killing the proceedings), work was begun in 2009. Continue reading