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Expect to see much more of this in the coming weeks. If I recall correctly next board period starts in just 2 weeks on Sept 1st

It's not necessarily because of that. These poles have to support more weight from the addition of the heavier messenger (the wires that carry the bulk of the traction power for the contact wire between substations) wires and resist the tension forces that the wires are under as well.

I wasn't even talking about the operational capabilities of the vehicles on a completely grade-separated right-of-way. I was talking about their capabilities on the exact kind of system that was built. Should they not be operated in a manner that allows their full capabilities to be utilized...

The slower acceleration is not at all the case with an actual LRT (or even the existing streetcars). The streetcar network itself is slower at that only during the day and only because operators are more cautious and vigilant due to the increased risk of incursions by car drivers and pedestrians...

Walking down Neville Park Blvd one can still find a some of the abandoned Neville Park Wye still embedded in the roadway too

This is simply not true. ATP is a primary component of ATC & ATO systems. Automatic Train Protection is a type of Communications-Based Train Control system and if it's the only component installed operates at Grade-of-Automation Level 1. Line 1 and 5 use ATC or Automatic Train Control. Automatic...

This. Plus if Waterloo's vehicles are able to do the transition from ATP to LOS while moving the point being made by the redditor is moot.

A lot of the certificates are very site-specific and there may be multiple certificates that will be issued for certain sites (i.e. Cedarvale, Eglinton-Yonge). The underpinning of Eglinton-Yonge was a well-known and public problem as they had to pause work on underpinning the station in order...

Track crossover, and emergency access, evacuation and ventilation shaft

The Flexities have an absolute minimum gauge of 1425mm between the rails. Typically the allowed tolerance during the construction phase is -0.00mm/+3.00mm to ensure service starts with an optimal track gauge. During the maintenance phase, however a tolerance of -5.0mm/+15.0mm is considered...

Based on the article the only thing that seems to be standing in the way of an opening date is 95 fully trained TTC drivers and some minor teething issues that could easily be worked out while they are training the drivers. Once that's done the TTC can take over and the 3 months of simulated...

It should also be considered that they've adjusted the budget for the project to include a very large contingency fund that may not be used in its entirety but is there because of lessons learned from when they did the underpinning on Line 1 for the Crosstown. I'm this case it may prove...

Beginning this Sunday June 23rd, 512 St. Clair service will return to using streetcars between St Clair Station and Gunn's Loop. Due to continuing work at St. Clair West station streetcars will not serve the station loop, riders will need to exit at Bathurst or Tweedsmuir to access St. Clair...

Starting this coming Monday June 24, streetcars on the 508 Lakeshore will be extended to serve Broadview Station via King, Queen and Broadview and will no longer serve stops on Parliament and Dundas. 508 Lakeshore Streetcars will use the 505 Dundas platform

Nah that one was RT-41 the Tie Tamper that was built in 1993

the ones I saw today actually had their nosecones attached so I'm thinking testing is going pretty well at this stage

The speed limit for cars on the section of Eglinton Ave from Brentcliffe Rd to Kennedy Rd is 50 km/h. the LRT is limited to 60 km/h on the surface section (from the portal east of Brentcliffe Rd to the portal west of Kennedy Rd.)

If there really was such a huge problem like that with the tracks they wouldn't have been testing with higher frequency over this past weekend. They've already done a profile and gauge analysis of the tracks and while there was an issue months ago on the surface section they fixed that during an...

You'd still need 1 60' bus to arrive at a stop every 100 seconds in each direction to attain the same capacity as 1 of these Alstom Citadis Spirit LRVs every 5 minutes

Saturday was their last day. Loblaws at 720 Broadview near Danforth is being rebrand to No Frills on May 3rd iirc