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Husband and father, bass and ukulele player, computer and genealogy geek. Skeptical and suspicious of ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด I read on-line.
A few blocks away, you can still find the Royal Tavern.
The article mentions another closure I hadn't noticed yet: I remember when the nearby Beer Store opened decades ago. It looks like the whole block may be rife for redevelopment.
Queen's is a "woke breeding ground". Cool!
#QueensUniversity #YGK
www.queensjournal.ca/trump-admini...
So Queen's is a "woke breeding ground". Cool!
A non-paywalled story:
www.queensjournal.ca/trump-admini...
Canada just announced "Alto", a TorontoโQuebec City high-speed rail plan
I'm a rail enthusiast and frequent VIA rider. But this plan is doomed to fail
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www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/canada-sho...
Another perspective on the debate:
www.changinglanesnewsletter.com/p/canada-sho...
Politicians will never agree to this, it makes too much sense.
Agreed. However, the US needs to prioritize its investments in science and tech. Education, health care, renewable energy, and the environment need the money more than the aerospace companies.
It won't happen. But a number of aerospace companies will get rich studying the issue and building hardware that will never fly. That's the real goal.
China's strategy is clear: Goad the US into spending billions on unnecessary vanity projects, resulting in the bankruptcy of the US. That's also Russia's strategy. They know full well how to play Trump and the Republicans.
Eastern Ontario: Where the dream of a high-speed train becomes another milk run nightmare...
"All Aboard!"
#ygk
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And most of that is earmarked for industrial! (There has already been some talk about adding another exit on the 401 west of Hwy 38.)
Interesting. It looks they want to significantly expand the Urban Area in the west end.
We currently have at least half a dozen entities providing rail service in Ontario. In some cases overlapping. Do we need yet another?
We need to rationalize / optimize use of rail lines (both freight and passenger) in the province. And we need to improve VIA service.
The big factor is curve radius. If you want trains running at 300km/h, you need a minimum curve radius of 4000m.
(Minimum curve radius increases with the square of the desired speed.)
A high-speed rail line needs plenty of straight, flat track. Can you find a straight, flat route through this region? Alternatively, how much dynamite would be needed to blast an acceptable route through all the granite?
#HSR #Alto #KFLA #YGK
One point that many missed in the previous airport expansion debate: The 4th busiest airport in Ontario (YTZ) has a main runway shorter than YGK's *shorter* runway. If there was a business case for air service here, it could have been handled by YGK's pre-expansion main runway.
Good. Someone has to ask the right questions. Such as, what is the impact on travel time if a high-speed train hits a wild turkey?
My last Windows was version 3.1. I've been using Linux for almost 30 years now. It's sometimes an adventure, but overall, I like how it lets me use my computer the way I want to use it.
People who believe in an imminent Rapture/Armageddon don't have anything invested in what happens to you here on Earth. You are irrelevant to them and will be treated accordingly.
When doing genealogy, it's sometimes worthwhile doing a web search. Gerard van der Flier, my 5th cousin twice removed, was a Supreme Court justice in the Netherlands from 1939 to 1949.
#genealogy #Netherlands
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If people in Kingston really wanted fast travel to Toronto or Montreal, we'd have scheduled airline service at YGK.
A high-speed rail line here would be exorbitantly expensive, requiring massive gov't subsidies forever. Better to invest in improved VIA service.
Even a broken clock is correct twice a day.
She doesn't even mention the exorbitant cost of the project, requiring massive gov't subsidies for decades to come. Better to invest in improved VIA service.
Some of our finds today at VV. An Obama bobblehead. And 6 HotWheels cars (out of 8 bagged cars), including a Viper, a Lamborghini, a Barracuda, and a Renault Sport.
#Obama #HotWheels
If construction ever started on the high-speed line, it would be first on the chopping block if (God forbid) the Cons won a national election.
As I've said before, if there was a demand in Kingston for fast trips to Toronto or Montreal, we'd have airline service at YGK.
Mayor Brian said that?!?
A decade ago, he promised improved airline service to Kingston once a lot of money was spent on improvements to YGK. Tell me, when is that going to happen?
mayorpaterson.com/expanding-th...
A few years ago, it took me just a few weeks on Pinterest before I dropped it for good. The recommendations were just too frequent and too annoying.
#Pinterest
There's no reason they can't upgrade the VIA line, even to electric. Replace rails and sleepers if necessary, and remove level crossings. Maybe they can't do 300km/h, but they can still make significant improvements, at lower cost.
Gov't can legislate what they want, given the will and the funding.
