Recent content by lastcommodore

This is fair, i was operating under the assumption that the battery would be charged via catenary and not by the 2nd diesel engine or regenerative braking, or that the loco would not have enough time operating under 50% output to charge the battery. But this still runs into the issue i expand on...

Re: Capacity, i think it's a bit early to cast 5 as some failure in the waiting. To be clear, I am also on the side that LRT was not the best choice for this corridor, and I would have preferred some sort of grade separation for the eastern section, either elevated or underground. But People...

To this point I do want rail to be more standardised, but there's a very wide gap between "On-order train sets" (Which we don't even have for buses) and "Bulk order every 3 decades" I had forgotten to mention but the TTC streetcar rolling stock is much better doing this, with slow but continual...

I am not knowledgeable on other places, but I have never understood this weird situation where we like to buy only in huge, bulk orders, then no orders for the next x decades, and never piecemeal. It makes it much harder to have any form of industry here in Canada, because instead of a few...

To be a bit more verbose i was responding to McGillicuddy's point that you would have to rebuild loops into crossovers and in the meantime have two incompatible systems (loop termini and crossover termini)... Unless there is something I seriously misunderstand, bidi trams can operate on...

They do All these crossings need a minimum amount of time for pedestrians to cross. It is why the crossings blare long before the train comes. Arms come dows earlier but pedestrians inside still have time to leave The issue is that for many tram crossings they are already near or at the...

I dont see why you cant just drive a bidirectional tram thru a loop

Forgot to reply to this but a BRT needs to be, well, RT People complain that "the public" doesnt see BRT well because its on rubber wheels, and its true, but also our politicians... like you said a BRT with no buses is no BRT at all, and the VIVA system is insane how infrequent it is (tbh I...

Not an expert in locos so please take with a grain of salt, but from my research while some MPXpresses do use a separate engine for HEP, the MP54AC does not and diverts power from the prime movers

Probably relevant article It... is an interesting idea, though I'm generally not for it given the battery life. At the highest this means trains can run for 30 minutes at full load without catenary, otherwise the train is now running at half propulsion. I wonder how they will work to tackle...

Materially, there's not many cases where tram is needed over BRT. I'd reckon the 6FW setup can 2-3x BRT capacity, but frankly I don't know if that capacity is truly needed. but the primary benefits of trams are not in carrying more passengers or speed, it's really more about the soft benefits...

Because a ROW is only useful when there is traffic congestion. When there is no congestion, there is very little benefit to a ROW over mixed traffic. You can see this from Steve Munros analysis of 6's speeds. The ROW shows its consistency during the most congested times, but because there's...

No timeline is given but the grade separation for KI and Guelph second tracks are listed as the next thing to be built on the KI corridor.

I suspect a number of people have had to explain to newcomers to GO that no, this Kitchener train does not actually go to Kitchener Hence why I think the line names should be changed from destination -> corridor, though i'm not sure what a great deal of them should be called. The only one I can...

To be completely honest, I've been on and off observing this thread and I have no clue what exactly is being argued about anymore. The closest I can figure is that this originated from "6 is confusing because newcomers think it's rapid transit but is just a tram" -> "Very few if any tourists...