Recent content by cplchanb

this is what you get when you rely on north american expertise. they dont have any clue how things work in europe/asia.

yea but do you honestly think they could afford to rip up all the switches and redo the infrastructure? going from electric to gas aint cheap when everything is already in place? dont forget these lines have been under construction for years. adding gas lines to 10km of road is extremely time...

everyones organs and then some.

And this is why theres planned obsolescence instead of scraping every last minute of life out of the trains like they are doing for the LD fleet. Continuing to replace every couple decades will keep the manpower here in Canada instead of a one and done job every 2 generations. That is why in...

lets just hope that doesnt mean they cut corners to scramble finish the ONR sets.

honestly TTC operations are way out of whack here... they want to operate the LRT both as a streetcar when it comes to signalling and as full heavy underground metro for door operation. they have zero awareness of what happens as a norm outside of the gta let alone overseas...

passenger trains =/= mixed freigh train consists. they should be assembled as 1 trainset instead of being a hodgepodge of different old and new. Even developing countries get this better than us.

Politics my friend

So meet down the middle and open mid Jan? TTC/city owe it to the public to go full in all out to address whatever deficiencies are remaining and to apply lessons learned from early line 6 operations. Work the OT, night shifts weekend shifts, whatever. They egged themselves hard with the line 6...

On the flipside its equally detrimental to be OCD and paranoid on every last specific detail like NASA is with their rocket preparations in order to mitigate political embarrassment just like whats happening right now. The public understands if mistakes or bugs happen, they just need to be...

Non TSP and running at the same speeds as the downtown streetcars a modern thing?!

Well thats what you get when you have a streetcar operator run a traditional LRT with a traditional streetcar mindset. Lose lose

The thing that riles me the most is the constant flip flopping and the endless talking/studies. Just pick something and move on with it!

so 2025 is officially dead.... at least they are able to transfer to TTC quicker than line 6.....

I wont be surprised if they do this once they go in for the midlife rebuild. Its not as easy nor cheap as you suggest it to be, especially at govt contract and labour rates.