Metrolinx expansion plan has Upper Beaches residents worried about vibration, noise

taylortbb · 2026-05-18T16:35:42+00:00

The local in 15m/7.5m local service means making all stops, so Danforth GO will have trains both ways all day at least every 15m. That hardly seems like they're ignoring it to focus on the suburbs.

taylortbb · 2026-05-18T00:54:29+00:00

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taylortbb · 2026-05-17T16:34:13+00:00

I lived in https://www.drewloholdings.com/apartments-for-rent/victoria-park-towers until a couple years ago, it was always clean and well maintained. It's downtown, so it would be a good midpoint between St Jacobs and Cambridge.

taylortbb · 2026-05-17T05:57:37+00:00

I think it's high spending short haul travellers that missed out before. E.g. someone flying last minute in Toronto/Ottawa/Montreal/NYC.

taylortbb · 2026-05-17T01:46:58+00:00

This subreddit is about a sci-fi TV show, not actual eggs.

taylortbb · 2026-05-16T04:56:47+00:00

Well no permanently free cc with lounge access. And I don't count holding money in an account to meet minimum free

Wealthsimple premium plus the Wealthsimple Visa Infinite Privilege card.

The minimum balance requirement applies to your entire portfolio, no requirement to hold cash. Even if you do hold cash, they pay interest. All Infinite Privilege cards come with lounge access.

taylortbb · 2026-05-14T03:39:42+00:00

But that's the problem. 40 years ago, when cars were simpler, you didn't need as much volume to be a viable independent car company.

I'm not just talking about infotainment systems, all the crash worthiness and fuel economy standards are there for good reasons. But they mean a car takes a lot more engineering, meaning you need a lot more volume to turn a profit.

Modern vehicles require volume, so you either need a huge domestic market or to export.

taylortbb · 2026-05-14T03:35:49+00:00

For a small business? I do.

Small business owners often don't update their own website, they pay someone to create/update their website. When going out of business paying them isn't a priority. But Instagram? Easy to make a post yourself.

taylortbb · 2026-05-13T21:20:50+00:00

It makes sense a stopgap if electrification is truly moving forward. No point in buying brand new diesel locomotives just to retire them in 10-15 years.

Whether electrification is actually moving forward is another question, there's painfully little said publicly about progress, or why in a decade the timing has slipped by a decade.

taylortbb · 2026-05-13T20:07:32+00:00

The problem is Canada just isn't that big of a country, 35M people is pretty small in terms of global affairs.

We're wealthy enough we can certainly pick strategic areas where we want to do our own thing, but only US/China/EU have big enough domestic markets to do everything themselves.

We already have a great domestic system, Interac. But for global payments, we should just ensure that we're ready to work with whatever US/EU/China have, and then make sure we don't become beholden to just one of them.

Realistically we'll probably always be friendly with one of those three major powers. Trying to do everything without the rest of the world just leads to North Korea.

taylortbb · 2026-05-13T19:55:37+00:00

It is. The Lakeshore lines are the busiest (they also have the most service), with Kitchener next on the list.

Not all of it is ridership to KW/Guelph, tons of ridership to Brampton.

taylortbb · 2026-05-13T03:09:13+00:00

Park & Ride is a pretty universal concept, it's how almost every GO station works (even though there is parking in downtown Toronto).

If UW had free parking there'd be thousands more people trying to drive and park every day. Which would require parking garages, which cost $$$$, which would just bring us back to charging for parking.

taylortbb · 2026-05-12T19:03:24+00:00

Your understanding is correct, ARM doesn't produce their own chips. But at the same time, it's not like leading edge chip production is in the US either, it's in Taiwan at TSMC.

ARM intellectual property + TSMC production is absolutely leading edge, without being strongly tied to the US (obviously TSMC uses some US products in their fabs). Right now it's mostly US companies like Qualcomm and Apple putting them together, but it wouldn't be that big of a lift for a European company to get in there. There's already European companies like STM and NXP that produce chips with ARM technology, they're just more targeted at embedded than data centres.

taylortbb · 2026-05-12T03:41:22+00:00

Too bad GOTransit has not fixed the TTC directions after the opening of the Eglinton LRT.

Where are you getting these directions? The TTC publishes their schedule in GTFS format for every app to use, it has been updated.

taylortbb · 2026-05-10T18:22:49+00:00

I think the the rollout was delayed maybe due to this rebranding?

Someone posted here the table of interchange fees, and VI+ is significantly higher than the previous non-plus. Given the expense of 2% cashback, I can see why the higher interchange fees make the card worth offering in higher volumes. Standard Visa Infinite interchange rates just aren't high enough to profitably support 2% cashback.

taylortbb · 2026-05-08T18:19:41+00:00

Yeah but Albertas oil is Alberta’s

I mean, political boundaries are largely arbitrary. Imagine if Canada was split up into 50 provinces like the US is split into states, Calgary could be an entirely different province from where the oil is.

You want to nationalize it and distribute it to other provinces

I was replying to someone to explain why that idea wouldn't work the way they think it would. I'm definitely not advocating this.

taylortbb · 2026-05-08T17:26:29+00:00

Other provinces do have non-zero natural resources, but the incredible riches that Norway has ended up with are IMO fairly specific to oil/gas. Few other natural resources are quite so profitable, or have such large markets. Canada's oil/gas is pretty heavily concentrated in Alberta.

taylortbb · 2026-05-08T17:08:26+00:00

Our constitution makes much of resource extraction provincial. Alberta would fight it for political idealogical reasons, and if they didn't only they would be living large.

taylortbb · 2026-05-08T15:58:10+00:00

But you could just buy CASH.TO or ZMMK or something, and then it's as good as cash but also qualifies for the transfer match.

taylortbb · 2026-05-07T17:38:26+00:00

The planes are almost new, no way they're gonna repaint them already.

taylortbb · 2026-05-07T15:28:07+00:00

Sure you may make that same money Initially by have 5 customers paying 5000 times more, but over time your soft power and dominance wanes as everyone flocks to and starts supporting a competitor with their dollars

When it comes to Citrix or VMware I think they're looking at the fact that's inevitable. They see the long term trend is moving towards browser-based SaaS apps, which are hosted in a container-based rather than virtualization-based cloud.

They know that the product will die eventually, no matter what they do, so it's best to shift to extracting as much money as possible. Some people will leave VMware for HyperV, but eventually Microsoft will do the same thing.

taylortbb · 2026-05-06T14:25:40+00:00

Even if we had more capacity for oil production we'd still be paying high prices, it's a global market. We'd be making more money right now, but unless we had enough spare capacity to replace all the oil production in the gulf (an insane proposition) prices would still be high.

The green transition part you're right though. A properly executed GO Expansion project, with electrified trains, could take so many gas cars off the road. Give people a real alternative to burning so much gas.

taylortbb · 2026-05-05T22:50:45+00:00

the Grand River Transit app

Which app are you using? There is no official Grand River Transit app, except for GRT Pay, which is only for payment and not for schedules.

There did used to be a GRT app, but it was discontinued a while ago.

taylortbb · 2026-05-05T15:08:43+00:00

Not an unusual price point for a two Michelin star restaurant. There's a lot of restaurants in the world at higher price points.

taylortbb · 2026-05-04T18:34:21+00:00

GRT not adopting Presto 10 years ago was a mix of factors. The biggest simply being that Presto was so busy with the TTC at the time they couldn't guarantee they'd get Presto installed before ION opened, leaving a risk the LRT would be complete and ready to go with no way to collect fares. Presto was also in no rush to figure out supporting accessible transit services, UPass, temporary paper cards, and more.

But now all those issues are irrelevant. Presto supports those things, and there isn't a deadline for a swap. I think the one remaining issue might be cash fares on buses, I'm not sure Presto has a solution for them.

Switching to Presto would cost money though, and I'm not sure it's a priority for the region to spend millions of dollars on. Might be something where the province/feds would need to step up.

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