Recent content by Steve X

The schedule changes are in place but that doesn’t mean they won’t start Feb 8 with line 5 shuttle buses till we get some confirmation.

They do that normal with route changes. Surprise! You don’t know what’s going on if you don’t keep up.

They are just opening themselves to lawsuits if any injuries occur onboard. The public can believe the trains are unsafe if they are still “testing”. Real testing riders would have to sign an agreement.

I’ll just wait till a raccoon sets off the intrusion system!

At this point, I would like to see Ford would extend his power over reach and revoke traffic management over rapid transit corridors to get TSP running. At the same time, he'll have to mandate TTC to meet certain operating speed criteria or revoke TTC's operating rights as blench of contract to...

AFAIK trains were running in the afternoon snowstorm but nothing was seen at 9pm in the evening. So they must have stopped in between that time.

It seems like all the Flexitys in this city are running if people don’t block the tracks. Yes, they do run on line 5. The problems have something to do with this line more than the weather.

They were running normally today in this freezing weather. So there’s more hope unlike Finch which is having issues everyday.

The Finch West LRT was to extend to Don Mills Station to meet line 4 and the Sheppard East LRT too.

It does mean more time to remove more panels before performing any maintenance work .

I actually don't know why everyone thinks 2035 is way beyond their useful life. It's not. The trains are designed for 30 years life with the last of the batch entering service around 2001. This would only make the last trains 34 years old to retire in 2035. In contrast, the H4 and H5s retired...

The electronics and software might be different but similar mechanical systems would ease maintenance and training to maintain them. The TRs were designed for line 1 to improve capacity however their coupled designed makes it very difficult to maintain at Greenwood yard so these new trains are...

To be fair, the construction cost included the yard and maintenance/backup operation building (which probably cost around 200-300m), the two "subway" stations at each terminal, the grade separated turn at Finch/Highway 27 and likely vehicles would be included too. The VIVA rapidway figures would...

The cost you see is the capital cost of those rapidways don't include purchasing two sets of buses (one set will not last 30 years), the maintenance of the buses, nor the maintenance of the rapidway itself for 30 years. Since we don't know what the actual capital cost was for Finch nor do we...

The viva rapid ways took a long time to build too, they had to widen the roadway, relocate utilities and everything except track installation. It wasn’t exactly cheap either so I don’t recommend doing that either.