As passengers, we can’t wait to get to our train stop. But, amid occasional platform overshoots and safety reminders to stay off the tracks, few of us know how complicated stopping a train can be. And that each stop starts long before the brakes are ever applied. For passengers, the effort of arriving at a […]

By Greg Gormick Opportunities lost.  That’s what the Getting Ontario Moving Act, coupled with the 2019 Ontario budget and a Toronto subway-building mania, mean to Northern Ontario’s transportation system. To call this disappointing is an understatement.  Many of us in the industry had high hopes for this government when it was elected in 2018.  In Opposition, members […]

A lightly attended local roundtable discussion Friday in Owen Sound gathered input to help create a provincial “transportation plan”. The closed-door meeting at Georgian College was held by Kinga Surma, the parliamentary secretary to Minister of Transportation Jeff Yurek. She spoke with The Sun Times by phone after the meeting. Surma said it’s important to […]