Recent content by EnviroTO

Yes, but there is no requirement to keep the built tail track beyond the Kennedy platform, no requirement to keep the eastbound and westbound track directly next to each other, and no requirement to have a portal at Falmouth. Anchoring a design to these constraints it becomes unsurprising the...

I look at this diagram and it says to me "we drew the lines in a near optimal alignment and found problems". It doesn't look at all like an exercise to find various options where the goal is to build the extension underground but rather the goal was to get to the surface quickly. If the EEB...

I don't see how it is so expensive. When you look at the width of the ROW plus the width of the properties expropriated to facilitate construction of the subway line, and compare that to the width of tunnels holding 4 tracks, I don't see what the problem is. We are paying construction...

UP Express from the moment construction started a project to spend the least amount to connect the downtown to the airport. Initially there was a study that was about a corridor diversion which would have allowed the airport to be a stop for through trains (VIA, GO Kitchener), then the cut...

Yes, that article is as if the author never heard any of Yves Desjardins-Siciliano's sales pitches for the HFR project (which was not a high speed project), but because the plan was upgraded to have HSR sections thinks that this is only about speed. This iteration of rail corridor investment...

I don't know if it needed to be done, but considering the work to improve the conveyance of the river and the eventual Gardiner realignment the design seems pretty future proof with the maximum clearance below and less supporting obstacles.

That is not what I am saying (i.e. I'm not saying that a platform would sit up against a rail that has trains whizzing by at 300km/h). I am saying that where there are trains going 300km/h those trains are not on sharp curves or steep gradients which means building the side tracks that serve...

By building it they way they did some future government can spend a fortune on a dig down project and East Harbour can be the place Torontonians ask "will the construction ever be done".

Is there anything to communicate at this point? A high speed train needing a corridor maybe 30m wide is planned for a corridor that ranges between 10km and 25km wide. People are complaining how the railway will impact their property but unless they have a 10km wide property they can't...

Wait a minute... so is Alstom saying we need some silly tram rail for their equipment or just rail like European UIC 60 rail vs AREMA 132 RE?? If they are saying they are only going to build equipment for some special tram rail then this is even dumber than I thought. The whole point of...

Put the Alstom execs on the Finch West line and run the trains at 80km/h, 20km/h in the turn at Highway 27, and one way or another the problem will be fixed.

It's nice for Alstom to want things... but the Citadis Spirit sucks so they are going to need to change their plans, or Hyundai Rotem and others are going to eat their lunch.

Have they already procured the vehicles for Hamilton?? Surely they would fix this in the contract with Hamilton... the Bombardier equipment is showing what is possible in Edmonton, Toronto, and K-W. Why would they sign a new contract to reproduce the challenges of Ottawa and Finch West??

It is also a problem with property taxes being considered to have gone up when the tax percentage has gone down. It should be that the percentage is set, and council needs to vote to reduce taxes to lower the percentage. The way they do property tax makes no sense from and ability to handle...

The leadership from the days of setting naming standards for stations is mostly gone now. As soon as they renamed Oshawa Durham College GO the winds had changed