Recent content by nfitz

Perhaps it's obvious BS? There may or may not be track problems caused by the TR but the issue isn't the vehicle weight. A quick look up suggests that the T1s weigh 33.1 tons per car, while the TRs weigh 34.3 tons. That 1.2 ton (3.5% increase) in weight is insignificant. A bit more perspective...

Especially when the first one is packed full! There's little to gain, and massive complaints. Though you do see it done when vehicles were crush-loaded - though less so now that the new LRVs are quicker in such circumstances, as you don't get stuck there, with the person who doesn't fit on...

How do drivers rocket as fast as possible on Line 1 with ATC? This makes me suspect the origin of that "experience".

To put it mildly. Here's the last bit of terminal in it's final hours.

After the previous dramatic epic, I think the answer is not in a million years would operations move to Tinkerbell.

Where's the current customer base for the product from this mine.

What I heard is that when the ownership changed in 2010 to a US private investment firm, the new owners reneged on the promises and hiring deals with the local Inuit, who then wouldn't approve any expansion to the roads and facilities on the north side. So they went back to the railway. I...

I was suggesting elevated, though cut-and-cover likely isn't too problematic, because there won't be much in the way of the usual services. Wow that's deep. Is there a map showing where the station actually is? A crappy one I see on line, has the tail tracks heading due map south (perpendicular...

I'm not sure why you'd excavate under nothing much but parking lots - which stretch much of that 1.5 km. VIA and the airport aren't the issue. The issue is that the biggest transit hub in West Island was located at Dorval Station. Not connecting it to the light rail was a horrific decision. It...

Huh ... I was in Dundas West on Tuesday, and literally stopped walking down the platform to admire how clean the walls looked, and how bright the station looked. Floors obviously a bit dirty with the snow. The new (well not anymore) LED lighting in the triangular casing certainly makes it look...

Good point - I didn't fully realize how fast cars had to speed to undertake a TTC Flexity at a stop until I tried to do it myself, uphill, without breaking the speed limit, and waiting until the no passing lights stopped! I didn't even get even with the front of the streetcar!

Very true. Though the huge cost increase to the vehicle purchase by using Citadis vehicles had some shitting on Metrolinx, not Bombardier. Interesting that there doesn't seem to be a deterioration in quality now that Alstom is running Thunder Bay, judging by the brand new 60 Flexities.

Given the closest station to Flemington park is Lawrence West, that might not be the biggest problem! :) It's interesting that the switches into the yard are such a big problem; which suggests that the theories here that the stop spacing and TSP are the big problems, may not be true.

The UW weather station is great - but it's not that useful for this, without doing some serious data processing to estimate snow depth. Because it measures rain and snowfall. Not snow depth. An increasing problem at numerous Environment Canada weather stations as well. If you look at nearby...

Or vice-versa ...