"Generally, the longer it takes to repair and build structures — existing and future — the more expensive they will become.

“So we wind up wasting money,” Perks said. "

This is exactly why you fund capital works with municipal bonds now rather than build a reserve fund for later.

However his […]

"“Over the next 10 years, potholes, sinkholes, water main breaks — all of that stuff is going to become more frequent and more severe because the federal and provincial governments have handcuffed the city,” said Perks."

No Gord. Having your preferred method of raise revenue paid for by new […]

Still snowing sideways. #dlws

@dyckron BYD already has an idle plant in Ontario for their eBuses.

Idled after the TTC opted for New Flyer iirc.

Like I really want to be able to recommend it to people but it makes using apps that use Apple file APIs unusable when you're prompted every 30 seconds the file on disk has been modified.

I think somewhere in the desktop client it's using unix epoch time...

@c_9 What do you think the chances are they changed TSP on Eglinton are?

I think we'd see it tested if they were going to launch revenue service with it and so far nothing from the usual suspects.

There was some demands from Saxe (iirc) to not launch Line 5 until it wasn't going to be a repeat […]

@jerome

Finch West was a design, build, finance, and maintain (DBFM) P3 contract. Metrolinx had involvement but Mosaic could have learned and revised designs.

https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/47527/new-rapid-transit-line-along-finch-west-takes-major-step-forward

@johannab Do you use iOS?

There is evidence that the system is completely misrepresenting key strokes in text inputs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hksVvXONrIo&t=1s

@jerome Mosaic absolutely did not heed the Ottawa inquiry report and remediate a flawed design.

Same switch heater design, same problems.

I read that Line 5 didn't embed their switches in concrete and can be heated with conventional proven reliable tech.

So we got that at least.

@mayintoronto I hate that xAI has corrupted that word.

@mayintoronto This man groks LLMs....