Recent content by urbanclient

Hate to break it to you, but it's been leaked that the Ontario Line is already years behind schedule. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Yes below 50-60 km/h there is virtually no acceleration difference. You are totally right about that. But the top end speed matters. Are we seriously "ummm actually"ing whether or not EMUs are faster in general than DMUs to accelerate to 100 km/h? The fallacy of exception much? If operating top...

Migrant labourers? Imagine the pearl clutching if us morally righteous Canadians sullied ourselves to exploit such an underclass. /s

"overdesigning, the cycle of lack of knowledge retention <> reliance on external consultants, inflated soft costs" Yeah, but lots of people including myself like to be technically correct. So there is a lot of "ummm ackshually, TTC/Metrolinx aren't that wasteful, we don't have slave labour and...

If Line 5 actually opens in January and Metrolinx tries to spin it as a 2025 opening somehow: ^Remixed post

That is a very fair point. Yes those Spanish metro/RER projects are not apple to apples with Line 6. However, the maintenance cost shouldn't be higher than $1-2 million per route km per year, which usually doesn't start until some time after the line is operational. A new line even if tested...

@nfitz my sweet summer child, the official RSZ isn't accurate... Yes, in theory, there aren't that many RSZs but what is there to explain @6ixGod post and the minimum 7 minute slower than Google Maps ETA trip I experience from Union to North York Centre/Finch even with 0 RSZs northbound before...

I want to be clear, I am by no means advocating for a subway in the past, now, or in the near future for Finch. The underlying data from the paper the UofT study cited shows that Spain will finish two projects post-2025 for less than $250 million international dollars per km. Which is less than...

Just to reiterate 10.3/(46/60)= 13.43 km/h, not 13.53 km/h as seen in the widely spread Twitter typo. And according to the Star, the estimated cost of Line 6 is now $3.585 billion. So the line doesn't cost $240 million per km, it costs $350 million per km. That is nearing or even higher than...

I knew it was a figure of speech so I re-added the emphasis I deleted earlier. I'm not bootlicking any foreign regime. I am pointing out that there are aspects of society, notably public transit procurement where we are somehow more opaque and arguably more corrupt than say Southern Europe or...

Because comparing trip times along distances where both Lines are straight (e.g. Yonge vs. Bloor), Line 1 always has longer than advertised headways hence/and longer than predicted trip times (Google Maps/Transit App). Therefore, lower than advertised speeds as well. According to service...

You are right, TTC ops do not adhere to the published schedule or service summary headways. Operations are nearly always slower, with longer travel times and headways. It's not just a published reduced speed zone RSZ or security incident issue, it's the fact that the subway, especially Line 1...

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but $2.5 billion/10.3 km=$240 million/km was the estimated cost in 2023. As of March 31 2025, the estimated cost is now $3.585 billion. Toronto Star: https://archive.ph/lILv8

Let's give the benefit of the doubt to borderline jingoistic rhetoric on China. We are comparing Ontario, a jurisdiction of 13 to 16 million which has seen 0 investigations or inquiries on public transportation corruption since 2013 [1] versus China, a country of 1.3 to 1.4 billion in the same...

Based on the current progress, 2029 is a reasonable estimate. Construction started in 2020 and was to be complete by end of 2024. That is a project that is 125% late. 9 years instead of 4 years. The delay is longer than the original project length. If this were China, multiple officials and...