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Because ridership was dropping, and so they didn't need to continue to run the equipment like that. They could save money on (not having...

Any VIA CEO is going to be a political appointee and thus subject to political winds. It's worth remembering that the last CEO, Garneau...

I only recall two options - as it was eventually built, and an underground alignment with no station at Leslie. When did they suggest a...

No, the purpose of running the two cars coupled was so that you could get two cars worth of passengers through a single green light. And...

It's a vehicle design issue, so there is likely no way or method to decline the acceptance of the vehicles. It's just like how the...

This is an Alstom issue, not an MX one. The cars in Ottawa are built the exact same, and with the exact same warts. If anything, the...

It's cell-based, and the service on the Siemens trains is actually quite decent. The legacy system on the old trains isn't so great...

A lot of problems with the Alstom vehicles is that they are built like absolute shit. You shouldn't have spongy floors or poor-fitting...

In Ottawa, if you read the reports, the issues are not that the trucks can't turn well enough. It's the loading on the bearings because...

This is unequivocally not true for most low floor LRVs, and especially not with the Citadis cars used in Ottawa, Finch West and...

The way things are written, as I understand it, the City has no unilateral path to improving things on the line, save for signal...

Sorry, I guess I should have been more precise in my wording..... By "stay in the cab" I should have said call in to control, then stay...

I am aware of discussions that have happened that are not in the public sphere. Thus why I posted what I did. You can choose to believe...

The first set was supposed to leave around the end of November - along with a couple of EXO Chargers - but was held back at the last...

The operator is expected to stay in the cab until relieved. Usually, that happens as soon as the first supervisory employee shows up...