Volunteers communicating the need for Pickering Airport
By Ted Nickerson Back in March 2023, I posted my “Final” update to passenger recovery post-COVID. Well, I couldn’t let it go and have discovered some surprising insights that everyone needs to hear. Here is a June 2024 snapshot (a snapshot since Statistics Canada, a key credible data source, has not released the 2023 Canadian […]
By Ted Nickerson & Mark Brooks Way back in 1972, after the federal government assembled the lands in Pickering for a future airport, the province established 5 Minister’s Zoning Orders (MZOs). The goal is to further protect for an airport by restricting uses on lands beyond those Pickering lands. In the past, as the future […]
21 years ago, Chicago’s iconic downtown airport, Meigs Field, was illegally closed by the local mayor. Meigs was a successful downtown airport just like Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport. Now a few are calling for the closure of Toronto’s downtown airport under the pretext of expanding the city’s parkland. Will Canada see a repeat of […]
Downtown Toronto’s Union train station is a well-known anchor point for the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) mass transit systems. A place where passenger rail, subway and bus services cross connect. Now a just-released RFP from the City of Pickering and the Regional Municipality of Durham (the “Region”) seeks to replicate that success in Durham. RFP […]
Do you remember the future? Flying cars, high-speed trains, and robots servicing our every whim? The Greater Golden Horseshoe or just the “Toronto Region” to the rest of the world, has been Canadas golden child of growth since the 1970s. For decades the region has been an unstoppable economic engine fueled by immigration, industry, and […]
It is hard to find the words to describe the misery of Canada’s housing crisis in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). For a decade demand has outstripped supply causing prices to soar. For most, buying a home is now an unattainable dream. Many are struggling to make enough to afford rent. Manufacturing and service businesses […]
This year the Las Vegas Golden Knights, an expansion team founded only six years ago, won the Stanley cup. How did a desert oasis in Nevada, with a population less than half of the 6.3 million of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), achieve something that Toronto hockey fans have been waiting 56 years for? Torontonians […]
NIMBY stands for Not In My Back Yard. It is a social trend in Canada and other parts of the developed world in which a local group of usually wealthy (often retired) citizens enjoying the status quo, block the growth of the community that they live in. The reasons are as varied as the development […]
Airline Considerations for New Routes In Part 1 we discussed Pickering Airports advantage of location, location and location! We explored how the new airport will complement existing operations at Pearson airport including providing a home for commuter airlines. In addition to commuter airlines (19 seat or less), discount airlines such as Swoop and Flair are […]
On March 3 2023, a Canadian built Dash 8 Q300, nicknamed Lightning McClean, took off from Grant County International airport (MWH) in Washington state, powered by hydrogen. Aircraft use a lot of fuel and as such can provide economies of scale if that fuel is produced and liquefied locally near an airport. If […]
