Recent content by YZT580

sorry, your idea of a suburb and mine are two different things. It is 128 km which is an hours drive. I can see not stopping a high speed there but it certainly needs some form of rail service to one of the major centres.

you are back to the future and the days of the Convair, DC86 and B707.

Thanks Altair. That makes sense. I think Amsterdam might be as well but I am not sure. I know the train from Brussels stopped there before going downtown but I can't remember if it was a true HS or just simply fast.

Pardon my ignorance but I don't see your point. Unless you are trying to focus in on my comment re: wide body. If so, change the statement to include the 321, I don't mind. Doesn't change my point its just you being you. The XLR will be matched to routes where there is a demand in excess of...

We lived at the southern end of the lake streamers near Shelburne. So we saw just enough to be grateful we didn't live further north. Driving up for skiing or sledding was as close as we wanted to come.

Every route between cities generates a predictable number of users. Airlines know this and assign their aircraft accordingly which is why there aren't any direct flights from Edmonton to Heathrow for example. Both Westjet and Air Canada operate 787 aircraft out of Calgary. Now if Amsterdam is...

And what makes you believe that it will be YYC winning the airport lottery? Any decent train service will cut the time airport to airport to less than 2 hours with a stop in Red Deer. A High Speed with no stops perhaps a bit over an hour and 20 minutes if the speeds are comparable to...

too true. You know you have had a Georgian Bay snowfall when the tops of the windrows are above your truck cab.

really good question and along with it, just to be consistent, do we really need to go full highspeed? Staying at 120 mph on a dedicated line would provide a travel time of 1.75 hours including city entry and exit and assuming no intermediate stops. Would allow the use of the track for...

Resurrect Gimli I suppose.😂

good fishing, hunting and sledding in the winter time which is 6 months of the year. With regards to new infrasture, don't we already have what is needed for Gripens. There are the F18 hangers and I've noticed a number of closed truck stops and service centres on many of our highways, whoops...

it was wasn't it. Shouldn't just look at the appearance of things. Me bad. Doesn't change the text though. Productivity sucks

and I say that it is because our productivity per capita is the shits compared to the U.S., Korea, Japan, etc. Our unions have driven our industry to accept 50% from their employees. We avoid risk and we start looking for why not excuses instead of just going for it. Lots of other stuff too...

Very recently I heard a commentary on the radio regarding the GPR employed. According to the guest commentator the system is one that is optimized to enable the location of buried piping and maps indicate that a septic system was located in the vicinity of the field. Suppose, just suppose that...

you are definitely a glass is half empty kind of guy. 87000 in any category is 87000 fewer people needing to visit the food banks for everything and helping to pay the rent. They may be entry level jobs but $17. or so per hour is better than sitting at home and watching the soaps or worse yet...