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Considering the track has now been certified for "Design speed train movement" they're now essentially at the meat and potatoes of the systems testing which they haven't communicated the progress of

the bulk of what I've seen them doing has been final road grading, paving, sidewalk, land and hardscaping work which all needed the warmer weather to do. the rest I'm guessing has been deficiency corrections.

The way I see the sign says that this elevator gives you access on Level 3 to both directions of Line 1 and to the connecting elevator to Line 5, which would have on it's signage the directions of Line 5 as well as the Line 5 Concourse level. Out of frame of the picture looks to be the signage...

Odds are at this stage of testing the sensor inputs aren't enabled in the control cabinets to eliminate potential failure points with the signal programming so that the light cycles will operate consistently until they can properly test the sensor integration.

Much of the timidity comes from the fact that the operators don’t have full clearance to operate them as they would in normal service yet. There’s still a few defects that need fixing before they can gun it everywhere on the on-street section. Another thing to note is that right now there’s also...

ION doesn't use ATC. ION uses ATP. Vehicles on ION are controlled by the operator at all times with the ATP providing a display with maximum permissive speed limit. It's a different setup to what is going to be used on the Crosstown. On Line 5, the trains are driven by the computer in the ATC...

It's likely that Choice Properties REIT may have chosen to negotiate with IO and Metrolinx to provide an expansion of the existing railway easement and use of land for the portal and station construction in exchange for taking on the planning around the creation of the Transit-oriented Community...

A lot of mapping data is out of date when it comes to railways I find. However that corridor is still that wide and afaik you can still find traces of that old spur in the area too

They've been carting away scaffolding and equipment from most of the underground stations the past week or so

average speed is calculated by using the total distance of the line and the time it takes to get there. This includes the time decelerating, dwell times at stops and time accelerating. For context most bus routes have an average speed somewhere around 15-17 km/h the 29 Dufferin has an average...

that reason is pretty negligible since a lot of the pours that happened in the winter were cured using heated tents that raised the ambient temperature to allow for proper curing of the concrete. Concrete shrinks as it cures and sometimes it will shrink more or less than anticipated which can...

The sidewalks in front of the south east entrance of Finch West station have opened

It's currently winter. a lot of the work required to complete the above ground occupancy permits is dependant on warmer weather.

the pace will increase once the weather gets warmer and they make do the track adjustments that they need to make so that the track gauge along the whole length is within nominal limits. they can't do that during the winter. that also means they can't do full system integration testing either...

The Alstom Citadis Spirit vehicles used on Line 6 are 48.4m long while the Flexity Freedom cars (used on ION and Line 5) are 30.8m long. Considering Line 5 will not use single vehicles the trains on Line 5 would be at minimum ~63m long. I've only seen the Line 6 trains moving at most 10 km/h so...

They can try for the Milton Line but CPKC doesn't like to play ball when it comes to commuter rail using their corridors. They've been vehemently opposing Milton Line expansion for many years. The only reason the Milton Line even exists in the first place is because of Hazel McCallion. She...

I wouldn't consider them to be bad nomenclature.... they were named after the roads they ran under. Line 1 was originally named as such because it ran under Yonge St, University Ave, Spadina Rd and in the median of what would have been the Spadina Expressway which we now just call Allen Rd. Line...

The effects of winter weather phenomena would be a concern with OCS if it wasn't for the planned frequency of every 90 seconds. One of the major issues with OCS is ice buildup but with a high frequency service ice buildup would be negligible especially so since the plans are for driverless...

Yeah iirc the city recently hired a bunch of Traffic Agents for the King St. Corridor to help improve traffic flow since this section gets jammed up most of the day. I do hope though that once construction on Adelaide clears up that the traffic will too.

These vehicles have been in successful operation since June 21, 2019 in Waterloo Region with minimal, if any, issues regarding level boarding.