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Closest would be the O-Train conversion.

Yeah, really. Frankly Google maps overlay of the feed is pretty good, they just have a strange obsession with hiding transit layers at relatively near zoom levels so you can't get the overview a real map should provide. Not having a published map in some form is just inexcusable and seems to...

I mean the general sentiment isn't wrong... except for the fact we've been running European LRVs in Canada since 1978

Nothing in the link you provided speaks about some kind of offline mode not allowing inspectors to validate the fare, and this tapping on with one card and trying to validate with another is not at all what's been reported. Find me any legal authority to issue a penalty notice when a fare has...

That zero tolerance apparently now includes "I don't have the proper equipment to know whether you've paid or not". You're seriously going to argue that you can demonstrate reasonableness in issuing penalties when the officer is completely unaware of, and unable to confirm, whether a fare has...

Wait, it's actual policy to issue a citation when they know full well a fare may have been paid and their own incompetence prevents the officer from knowing? And they think this will survive judicial review?!?

Honestly, there are three things that come to mind, but none of them don't have substantial cost. -the great thing about buses is that with the kind of forewarning a go schedule has, 10-15 vehicles showing up together isn't all that unreasonable -the streetcar options that we've talked about...

Definitely agree that Longueuil will happen first now... What I'm holding out for, and honestly think probably makes the most sense unless someone really has the appetite to go to war with NIMBYs is to bring CDPQ back on board, do elevated on the Metro connector version while treating the...

Let me put another perspective out there on this... What's the hurry? Another year or three on the fleet has what impact? The media stuff on this keeps trying to connect overcrowding to the new fleet delays, but capacity issues stemming from the passenger count reductions could just as easily...

What even is the standard you're asking for? We're now approaching 40 years of safe uncrewed operation in Canada alone. This is presumptively unsafe because?

Honestly, I don't think there's much to it but luck in getting a slightly more proven and notably less glitchy fleet.

I mean honestly, if exemptions are totally off the table, even a Kennedy STC shuttle get the vast majority of the actual SRT value proposition between now and the subway opening.

If I were feeling unreasonably positive I'd ask what length of shutdown would be needed to life extend the SRT ten more years with an essentially blank cheque. This could conceivably be used as cover to do that, and keep running until the subway opens if the length of shutdown can be kept...

Or implement it properly to begin with, or or expand it, or defend it against any kind of criticism or replace it in a timely way. I really have half a mind to write a rail fan style book on ICTS with the general premise that it was fundamentally ahead of its time and could well have been just...

Oof; this feels like the end to me. Was hoping to get out there one more time...

I think the real issue with GO is that that they publish connections that aren’t especially realistic even with the printed departure times. It’s one thing to have the operating practice, somewhat problematic to be publishing departure times that don’t reflect the doors closing, but wholly...

OTOH it's not as if we haven't had Canadian organizations self destructing for 50 some years. We're quite capable of pulling off something as pathetic as the downfall of Bombardier on our own; quite frankly the feel it has to me is less some new low than the final domino falling in the collapse...

I really have a hard time envisioning BWXT going off rail as long as they access, and the CP Waterloo spur isn't going anywhere as long as Toyota is using rail.

Agreed. This thing is very much a modern incarnation of an interurban, and the routing only works if the Cambridge - Brantford and Brantford - Hamilton legs are competitive in their own right, and I admit that there is real vulnerability in both by going through Dundas on one and diverting to...

OTOH Fergus ties into the top of Hespeler Road and offers lots of potential for a tram-train to continue to Galt via Ion.. Which also opens the door to Brantford and Hamilton corridors (my own preference would be GVR via Paris, a new Hamilton entry via Dundas tied into the LRT and terminating...