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Yes, it creates annoying Restricted Speed Zones (RSZs) in bike lanes, to the point cyclists like me have to make a detour in the car lane, which is actually quite nice, solid 40 km/h & keeping up with traffic.

MTA's current trains are all in permanent 4/5/6-car sets, and they only ever couple 2 sets together, so there isn't that much flexibility to spare, not nearly as much as with married pairs (train length can basically only be either 1 set or 2 sets, and only a few lines, like G, run 1-set...

(transferring this discussion over to the more appropriate thread) Quite unlike the H6s... The TTC did feel the need to push quite hard (hah!) over the past few years before someone finally heard them. So what was the reason for their 2011/2012 retirement? I don't recall them having an...

What high capacity metro lines in Vancouver? Literally all they have is SRT, and the Canada Line is just SRT Ultra Pro Max? I also disagree with PATH being labelled as commuter rail, just pointing out that that's what it's officially classified as (PATH ops must be licensed railroad engineers)...

Ah yes, there's a PeopleMover too (does it even have track connections to anything else?), but I definitely don't count that as part of the rapid transit network, or even acknowledge its existence (it could have rubber tires like most PeopleMovers for all I care). Happens all the time, just not...

I still find it hard to believe that simply adjusting the wheels to a different gauge or changing the length/width of the vehicle would necessarily add that many years to its design process. But given that the Toronto specs have been the standard here for many decades, it'd take far more to...

Having different types of rolling stock running on the same line/system is the good kind of diversity that I fully support, yes. Not the same as having each line disconnected & incompatible with other lines, which is the kind of diversity that should be avoided & kept to a minimum (like when the...

No, as in what @Bojaxs said above (more specifically, the lack of track connections between all lines except 1/2/4). For lack of a better analogy, it's the equivalent of packaging candy as each small piece individually, instead of packing several of them in 1 large box, or buying 10 bottles...

Yes I have, and it's as piecemeal as I expected, definitely not part of the 1/2/4 family no matter how much it tries to pretend to be. I hate the idea of 1/2/4 ultimately becoming the minority among a plethora of more isolated LRT lines (L7, L10, WLRT, JLRT, etc). (WLRT = Waterfront, JLRT =...

I don't have a problem with grade crossings whatsoever. I do have a problem with tramlike vehicles (at least when trying to pass them off as subways), and even more so with this: ^this right here is exactly why it's better to not build any transit than the wrong transit (which is what the...

Russia is probably the same in that sense.

Hopefully not on US soil, though (and certainly not on Canadian soil).

Ok, i forgot about that one. So what's stopping them from putting PSDs on L2 right now, in that case (aside from money)?

Also a different situation, because they don't slide in the same direction as doors do, and thus are not constrained by width whatsoever, they could have a single long gap filler spanning the length of the entire platform (aside from it being curved, that is) if they wanted to. It should also...

The SRT-type doors are still constrained by the same limitations as sliding subway doors with door pockets, to avoid hitting each other when they're fully open. I suppose, but I've never seen such a door configuration anywhere. Got it.