Recent content by smallspy

That's your personal experience. My personal experience is that I don't have enough digits and limbs to count number the times that I've taken the very first train of the morning and had it arrive precisely on time - as it should. Dan

Agree to disagree here. They deserve all the flak that they get, and then some. The problem is not so much the window itself, but what they do with it. While there may be a 5 hour window where service doesn't operate most nights of the week, the reality is that the actual time that they have...

That's a pretty silly take, since it isn't the public sector behind it at all. If it was, wouldn't the subway end service sooner on Saturdays as well? Hint: it doesn't...... Chalk it up to Crosslinx doing some more whining and complaining. They wanted larger maintenance windows. They came up...

No, because deferred maintenance leads to shorter equipment lifespans, not longer. Dan

Both of the LRTs that have been built and opened - Eglinton, between Leslie and Kennedy, and Finch between Keele and Hwy 27 - have these higher limits. If you dig around in the Finch West or Eglinton threads, you'll see links to the relevant reports. Streetcars, on the other hand, are limited...

Says who? In Toronto the LRTs have been given a maximum speed limit 10km/h higher than the adjoining roadway lanes. In large part, that's largely of a function of the entities maintaining the LRTs, who in Toronto are not the ones operating them. If Hamilton were to follow that same example...

Correct. There is a whole host of changes to the service that were made on Sunday, but one of the big ones is that they have removed most of the low speed limits put in place by Crosslinx. Because the end-to-end journey time has reduced, they've also removed a couple of trains from the schedule...

Remember that there are two projects underway already to do this - one is a "new" Zephyr siding which will be much longer, and the other will be a section of triple track between Langstaff and Richmond Hill. Dan

Full repairs, yes. But one of the two tracks was reopened today. Some traffic is moving. Dan

Guess so. My info comes from the guy at Metrolinx who is coordinating it all. If he says no, it doesn't happen. Dan

I have bad knees, and I use the Crosstown every day. In fact, I use the stairs every day in an effort to strengthen them. Dan

It left North Bay at 6am today. Dan

No, it wasn't. Dan

I watched the crews as they installed it. It is built just like the exposed trackage elsewhere, but with rubber encapsulation of the rails. They then started filling in the space with soil, and put in the watering piping about half-way down the depth of the soil. They they laid out the rolls of...

The curve at Highway 27 is no sharper than can reasonably be traveled at a reduced speed by any generic LRV built to the "common standard", regardless of maker. It was never meant to be a full-speed curve, as that was never a reasonable option at that corner. If I had to point at a number, it...