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Streetcars/trams an LRTs can be equally fast and reliable and also equally the opposite.............they are what you make them...

At this point, I think it's fair to say that ML has no intention of starting any electrification for years or even at all. Hence, GO's...

The debate is not dumb but rather why we have to have it in the first place is. Of course, with dumb, you can also throw in shocking...

Pages ago, it was posted that the speed along the street running section was 19 km/hr. By getting rid of a couple of stops and...

This lack of signal priority is made more difficult due to these damn left-hand turns. Now, ML seems surprised that it is a problem...

This line should have been a subway which means it could also have elevated sections and it should have had far fewer stations on the...

Well just when Torontonians thought that the Second Coming was going to beat the Eglinton Line, it opens. The great news is that it...

Obviously streetcar priority is a great idea and well overdue. One of the problems implementing it in Toronto however, is the number of...

Seeing the system isn't working, can they not just "turn off" the entire emergency breaking system and just go back to the tried and...

Notice how the release said "some" signal priority and not total. That is about as vague and non-comital as one can get. Also, what is...

These EDMUs still use the advantages of diesel engines such as no "range anxiety", little needed infrastructure {and Toronto's case...

More good news............ Czech has just ordered 120 new battery-electric trains from Skoda. They were already using some BEMUs and...

The Kitchener route from London to Union is a very indirect route as well as being a rather meandering one between London & Kitchener. I...

I disagree with upgrading the northern corridor. It would still have the problem of having to deal with CN trains and is a much more...

So why hasn't Toronto completely closed down these streets on the weekends and holidays? Ford wouldn't give a damn about that so where...