Recent content by urbanclient

I substantially agree with your overall point, but it's unclear whether a fully underground system would've taken longer to build in Eglinton's specific case. The added complexity of the 6 transitions between surface, underground, elevated, and the custom signalling etc. wasted a LOT of time...

Unclear, but what Line 5 operators are saying doesn't bode well for 'reliability'. I'm not going to bore everyone with more math. Good news: 88 km/h top speeds in the tunnel. Bad news: 22 min Mount Dennis to Laird with stops, but no other trains or passengers. Besides the surface section...

I should've clarified earlier, what I meant was companies don't have to provide insurance that OHIP etc. already covers. But they still do extended health benefits in Canada. That US plant situation was a self-inflicted foot shot. I saw ads in Ottawa for that Korean submarine, don't know how...

"Ottawa LRT chaos: Passengers walk on tracks after train stalls" These Citadis Spirits are garbage. At least the Toronto streetcars are decent.

I think Fraser purports to factor that in somewhat, because the numbers are all in CAD. But idk where they are getting the numbers as to have such a large gap. This is the best apples to apples I can find quickly, note StatsCan is in 2023 CAD and FRED is in 2023 USD...

Yes. And companies save on having to provide most health insurance in Canada. Take this with a grain of salt, the real gap is a bit smaller: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/our-incomes-are-falling-behind-earnings-in-the-canadian-provinces-and-us-states-2010-2022

By the way, in case it wasn't obvious, Line 5 Eglinton will likely be slower than the bus from Sunnybrook to Kennedy during early rush hour (right now): 33 minutes for the 34 Eglinton East bus vs. 35 minutes for Line 5 Eglinton

Overall average speed for the roughly 19 km line would be ~19 km/h, yes. The average speed in the eastern 7.7 km section would be ~12 km/h. Western section I checked is actually closer to 10.7 km long, and average speed should be somewhere between 27 to 31 km/h roughly. ~30.5 km/h if you...

You're sidestepping the point. The point is, Eglinton won't get anywhere close to the advertised average speeds, nor will it get close to what many naively imagine to be its speeds on the eastern section. Bickering about semantics or minute details doesn't take away from the overall argument...

It is and it isn't. I highly highly highly doubt the trams will get priority over left turns given what we know about a certain someone from Traffic Systems Operations within City Transportation Services (not the TTC). That in itself will keep the trams from hitting even 24 to 27 minutes above...

Slippery slope, soon you'll have the TTC CEO picking up litter when he can, and sweeping the floors when he feels like it. Stealing away jobs from custodians who love doing more manual labour....

"certain sections". Absolute shambles. I think we know which section is the crux of the issue.... "[We did not anticipate everything to be a problem with Finch.]" The CBC reporter is also holding onto unfounded hope, I think most here can agree that it won't be possible to run trains every...

I like this glass half full attitude. However, there are still some people blindly hoping Eglinton won't be that slow, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Let's recap: Eglinton as it was built, was originally advertised as 38 minutes for 19km, averaging 30 km/h, with 14 out of 25 stops...

I hope so, it's got wider stop spacing than TTC Line 1 and 2 actually. However, those Citadis Spirit trains appear to be hot trash, not even kidding, might be the worst low floor rolling stock of the 21st century. Even if the tram was pushed beyond its limits in Ottawa, that doesn't mean the...

A gross oversimplification, if not misrepresentation from me. But really, I think @crs1026 explains it well, it being difficult to work on active lines is a given. However... this is not used as an excuse in other countries, to the extent it is used for GO. So something else is afoot: I long...