Ontario Traffic Man

@OntarioTrafficMan
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That guy who sometimes makes youtube videos about transport.

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He/him

https://www.youtube.com/c/OntarioTrafficMan

New York City has its classic express subway trains, but London actually also has its own express underground trains. Come learn more in this video with @OntarioTrafficMan !

https://youtu.be/cnrkztrLhqY

The "Express" Underground of London (w/ Ontario Traffic Man)

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🇨🇦🇨🇦Dear Canadian contractors, industry, and others still using non-metric measurements (inches, lbs, miles, gallons, tons, etc) mostly ‘because-America'.

Since America officially and royally sucks now… can we just do metric now?
Please? PRETTY PLEASE?

Only metric, please.

Forever and always?

Thank you so much.

Here is the distribution of seats from the above
Doug Ford's "majority" government did not get a majority of the votes. Our stupid first-past-the-post system enabled 43% of the votes to obtain 65% of the seats, and 100% of the decisionmaking power.
Downsides of a simplified consonant set:
By kilometres instead of percentage:
Track ownership of Via Rail routes. GO+VIA are public, CN and CPKC are private
This is the 10th year in a row that I've created Canadian regional rail summaries so I took the opportunity to run some statistics. More in the post.
https://ontariotrafficman.wordpress.com/2025/01/06/canadian-regional-rail-summary-2024/
Canadian Regional Rail Summary 2024

This marks the 10th year that I’ve summarized commuter rail service in Canada, so this year’s article will include a look back at the past decade of service, as well as covering the new…

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Average speed of GO Trains over the past 10 years
Weekend service levels over the past 10 years: