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I'm not saying that there would be additional vehicles: there would be smaller vehicles running on a shorter headway. So in theory that would actually be cheaper to clean. I'm not convinced that enforcement costs would scale with train frequency. When the SRT was first built, it was capable...

I posted this earlier in the DRL thread but it probably belongs here, meant as an alternative routing for the REM in Montreal:

From a user's perspective: smaller but more frequent. You spend less time waiting for the train and there's less variability in the schedule for you (if you just miss a train, it'll have less impact on your total travel time. From an operations perspective: bigger trains but less frequent...

I was going to say that Twitter isn't the most representative because of its relatively small uptake, but then I checked and was surprised to find out that ~20% of people use twitter: But I would expect that older crotchety suburban drivers are less likely to use twitter than single urban...

You can find it here, the TTC's 10 year official capital budget (2017-2026) and their 5 year corporate plan.

There have been debates on this, mostly in the Fantasy subway thread, where we debated how to represent the street-running lines, e.g. why does the Finch LRT show up on the rapid transit map but not St. Clair/Spadina? Most of the differences are differences of degree, not of kind, and LRT is on...

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Because King is too close to SmartTrack. And also because City Planning wanted a station at the "psychological heart" of Toronto at Nathan Philips Square, and because Queen served more priority neighbourhoods like Moss/Regent Park. Also it avoided the additional cost of deep tunneling at...

These reports are better than porn for transit nerds. From reading these, my fantasy set of grade separations are: Jane: elevated, north side Scarlett road: elevated, north side Royal york: elevated, centre of road but shift to north side for station (not considered) Islington: elevated and...

TBH I'm amazed that people in Edmonton even leave their homes in the winter instead of hibernating for 5 months with the weather they have. Maybe the southern Ontario HSR could be rerouted to go through Brant county so then it would go directly from London to Paris (Ontario) :P

Request stop sounds good in theory if you are travelling late at night... but in practice, in order to account for the unreliability that this introduces and in order to manage headway, schedules will need to be padded in order to account for the extra stops. Otherwise you would get bunching...

The streetcars may be (4 cm) wider than the Montreal metro trains, but the layout of the new metro trains is much better for passenger circulation than the new Toronto streetcars. You don't have the double forward-facing seats at both sides of the car in the new metro except at the ends of the...

There's a difference between the CANDU reactors we use in Ontario and the compact type of reactors that would be needed for nuclear-powered trains. CANDU reactors are inherently safe because the coolant is also the moderator, so if the coolant leaks/evaporates then the reaction stops. One of...

Noooo I believe the hydro powering (hydrogenation? Hydrification? Hydration? :p ) of the GO network is a boondoggle waiting to happen if it goes forward. Electrification is a great idea that reduces operating/maintenance costs, speeds up acceleration of the trains, etc. But we are looking at...

Maybe they will keep quiet until the Libs have wasted a couple billion on it so they can have another eHealth scandal to go the polls with one election cycle from now.

Don't let del Duca know about this. We might get electrification delayed by another 5 years after they finish studying hydrogen.

You shouldn't be so dismissive of the impact of weather. I am an avid cyclist and it saves me a lot of time when getting from point A to point B, but I generally retire my bike in the winter. The problem isn't so much temperature, since I can layer up for that. The problem is the loss of...

Maybe he learned his lesson about not standing his ground with unpopular ideas after the whole faith-based school fiasco.

According to InsideToronto: Steve Munro also seems to believe that the SSE will only be run on ATC, which would make sense to avoid building two separate signalling systems just to decommission one shortly after. So it isn't so much that ATC *requires* going all the way to the line, it's...

This is now officially the Montreal Fantasy Subway thread. It can change it back in 10 years when we see progress on the DRL. The exact definition of "rapid transit" has been debated 712 834 907 times on this site. It seems like most of UT (not everyone, though, there is still room for debate)...