In any case, if HSR is going to cost a bazillion, does not get downtown or even ends up not being built at all, blame Mulroney. This one guy killed any prospect for modern passenger rail in Canada for the next century for the equivalent of 4 bn in today's dollars. The art of the deal, I guess

As it so happens I was reading this today

How can we use climate targets to require MPs take the train for all trips between Ottawa, Toronto and Montreal? It wouldn't take long for that to produce fruit in improvements to VIA.

This is where blaming solely Ford fails. This is a combo of a few near-retirement unionized public service employees who don't want to write a new manual, or have to learn one new thing, or have to confront the thought that they've been directly sabotaging transit for decades, to whom we acquiesce 😮‍💨

feels like a similar problem to the transit world, albeit at a smaller scale: instead of creating a bespoke solution from scratch every time, including lengthy consultation process, maybe we could have a standard set of designs, build the one that fits in the space, then dress up the exterior a bit

The funniest part about this ad is that they clearly had to use half sheets of plywood to fit into the maverick comfortably. Standard Maverick bed size is 4.5 feet while they loaded the car with full 4x8s. Trucks have become much bigger but also less useful.