Recent content by T3G

???? The post I made, and the post I was responding to, were both talking about Finch. I don't see what relevance the stop spacing on Spadina has to this discussion. I agree that the downtown network has excessively close stops, but that's neither nor there. I don't see what justification...

I think that the summary of it as an issue of stop spacing is nonsense. 400-500 m stop spacing is common on European tramways, and they don't crawl in between stops.

So? If anything, choosing this date would be genius, because of this particular reason. Any issues that may crop up would get a hell of a lot less screen time and controversy than they would if it happened on a regular weekend. They may even get to bury the lede if the speed of the line does...

Transferring is an inherent part of using public transportation. Why don't you ask the people who live along Eglinton Avenue East, or in south Scarborough, or further northeast than Sheppard and McCowan, whether the amount of transfers they have to make will go down post SSE? And what difference...

Can you explain, in excruciating and thorough technical detail please, how you reached this conclusion from a problem that was described as "automatic emergency brakes appeared to activate for no reason" and "what appeared to be random emergency braking"? This sounds like some kind of error or...

???? I'm pretty sure most of the anti-LRT contingent isn't even aware of track brakes existing. The debate about subways vs. LRT is due to factors such as grade separation, automation, and capacity, not whether the vehicle looks like a tram or whether it has ground clearance or not. And anyone...

Makes sense, thanks. Would I be correct in assuming that this is the same reason that they haven't done anything yet with 4478 despite it being back since June?

Past experience seems to suggest not. John Bromley recorded that ALRV 4238 was out of service for a very long time, but that one was among the big group pulled from service in early 2018. Though I hope the two flooded cars will retire with the new order and not with the first one!

And did they try asking the guys in KW who have been operating them for 7 years ?

Two questions pertaining to the Flexity Outlooks: 1) I went by Roncesvalles yard today and spotted car 4568 parked in the deadline. 4568 is the car that got a little too intimate with a garbage truck on St. Clair on July 26, 2022, and has been sitting out of service ever since. For most of that...

Kennedy, too, is absolutely revolting. If it's not pigeon goo everywhere it's suspicious fluids dripping down on you from God knows where. Where in Europe, exactly, are things so bad that a station like Islington or Kennedy would make their top 10 most clean stations list? I'm calling shenanigans.

Would it? There may be a small group of people who will be absolutely apoplectic with rage, but as a famous rock band once said, despite all their rage they are still just rats in a cage. As someone who has had to deal with using GO buses for many years, and the complacency of most of their...

That presumes that he would want to do anything to upset the motorists who think that their personal rights are being infringed if they have to wait a bit longer to let a train with 200 people on board go through first. As well, revoking the TTC's operating rights isn't even an option. Who'd...

The current status of 4478 at Russell. For some contrast... how this same spot looked around the time this car last ran in service!

Catenary tends to suffer more during ice storms. Streetcars all over the world tend to be fine when it's merely snowing.