Recent content by MacNav63

See my post above about letting opponents define the narrative and missing opportunities. Alto is going to go through my riding. It is a hot topic for many people in and around my community. My riding is held by a Liberal MP. Received her latest householder last week. Mention of Alto? Not a...

To a degree Ottawa's problems are the result of political decisions that have created a city with an urban core surrounded by a greenbelt outside of which sit a collection of suburbs surrounded by a fairly vast rural hinterland, itself peppered with villages (aka bedroom communities) like mine...

I seem to recall as well on the air force side, the base commander at Baden was still wearing his RCAF wings, which became an issue. Seems like people were maybe trying to test the limits of what they could get away with, especially with Hellyer out of the picture (that's Donald MacDonald in the...

I was a kid but was pretty interested in this kind of stuff. We were in Germany '71-'74 and by that time 3 Mech Cdo was wearing maroon berets. By the time we came home I'm pretty sure the Vandoos were wearing their old pattern shoulder flashes. My impression of my Dad's perspective was that, at...

Which is why I get frustrated when I see things like Ottawa's LRT. Here's a system where there was basically an opportunity to design it from scratch, within perhaps the confines of using pre-existing corridors and the fact that the existing short OTrain was already using one technology. So...

I flew to Menorca last February with a stop over in London. Tube from Heathrow to South Kensington. Tube the next day to Victoria and then Gatwick Express to Gatwick for the flight to Menorca. Seamless.

Oh the attitude is definitely out there, just saying I don't agree with it and it isn't motivating my questions.

This is absolutely true. I had to fly to Toronto for some meetings a couple of months ago which I hadn't done in a couple of years and was surprised at how few options there were.

Hmmm, bit of a leap to assume my questions, or the outright opposition of a lot of my neighbours, reflects a "Small Canada" syndrome of some sort. Personally, I'd say we are overdue adopting a new perspective of what our population size, resource riches and relative economic wealth can mean for...

Not sure I'd say they don't care about the ticket price. When I was flying on business my employers very much cared about the ticket price and the airline. We had very clear rules about who we could travel on, where we could stay etc.

Good analysis but there are so many variables for each mode, not least of which is what getting around either metropolitan area will be like by the time Alto is actually running between Ottawa and Toronto. For me, right now, it is more convenient to get to the YOW than it is to get to the train...

I don’t disagree at all. But we all know those calculations are made all the time. Was it a coincidence the Feds said no to expanding the island airport at the same time they have a by-election in Toronto?

In my rural village in the east end of Ottawa there are a lot of "no Alto" signs and the farmers around here are pretty staunchly against it. The CN right of way runs between us and the 417 and right along the southern edge of the village is the Prescott-Russell rail trail extension, which runs...

Good context thanks. That being said, I'm still sceptical about making the leap from the limited inter-city rail culture that we have all the way to HSR. I like rail and I like the idea of HSR and certainly have enjoyed being able to travel around France on their network. But even though the...

Pretty sure that’s what they were planning with their high-frequency rail project before that got shelved in favour of HSR. Frankly I think it would have made more sense to keep on with that project at a fraction of the cost of HSR and see if we could build back up a viable inter-city rail...