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Lucien L’Allier station is currently closed for upgrade works, which has presumably not helped ridership on the three lines into that station and at least a portion of which may now be worthless...

am not generally a fan of “AI” but a plug-in to forum posting where people could be reminded of (for example) the number of times Brightline has already been distinguished from things which can be done in Canada before they are allowed to mash the post button would be great. The one (1) good...

Be a good way to find out how resilient Eurobalises are to flooding, at least.

CTV coverage https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/go-transit-introduces-ledergosen-oktoberfest-train-1.7027985

I think the theory behind Infrastructure Ontario is laudable - create a project management and delivery agency which works with municipalities and transit agencies to organize planning, design, construction resources for projects of a size beyond which those municipalities or agencies can't...

There could be a reason underpinning was delayed - cash flow. In 2011 the financial crisis was still receding.

When you say “I can see this being”, is this based on any legal precedent which has proceeded to judgment? I don’t want to judge your legal expertise by the many vibes based ideas you have about rural rail transportation.

Two points I would make here, as economy of scale flits into and out of a lot of these discussions. 1. When it suits, such economies are overlooked. Canada Line, having different DMUs for Ottawa Line 2 and 4, UPX cars and now Guelph-Cambridge BEMUs. On the flip side, economy of scale was used...

The Citadis in Ottawa is 1500VDC. https://otrain.railfans.ca/trains/alstom-citadis-spirit

Perhaps - I haven’t gone to the source directives - but I am specifically calling out the practice of offering credit if this is still going on. It does seem like even where delayed travel regimes exist; they don’t seem to be regulated so strictly that company personnel don’t make offers to...

To my mind, VIA OCC should always be able to communicate directly with Corridor passengers via a dedicated, reliable audio channel (similarly to how TTC transit control does) to assure passengers that the outside world does in fact know where they are and to relieve some communication burden...

Parliament should set legal minimums for compensation generally akin to what the European Union does including defining exempt force majeure, and specify that where rebates or refunds are involved that the minimum is always obtainable as money (refund to credit card etc.) and that while they can...

There is a point there about comparing dissimilar geographies. Quebec City to Montreal is 254km, and that is just one segment of the corridor, if we restrict expectations just to there. From top to bottom of the entire country of the Netherlands (say Eemshaven to Maastricht) is 370km.

Not saying that you’re wrong but that family owns a railway too (New Brunswick Southern)

As far as the expropriations go, is there anything stopping the current owners negotiating that Metrolinx offer them right of first refusal on the property at the expropriated price? That provides an option for the seller to regain what they had should the works not cause any fundamental damage...

VIA should do none of those things if right now they can’t afford a power switch in Moncton. If New Brunswick wants to, and will pay, perhaps. Given that they seem to have allowed every foot of rail in Fredericton to be turned into trails, I doubt we will be seeing anything close to what’s...

Ex-LIRR - posted about this back in June https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/general-railway-discussions.31918/page-125#post-2110936

This is incorrect, isn’t it? Aren’t both Finch and Eglinton 750VDC? (The downtown network IS different, being 600VDC)

According to groups.io, 2300/2209 was the guilty party, and a pair of P42s bracketing a HEP car fetched it. The question that occurs to me is - shouldn’t Montreal-Quebec City services be busy enough to justify some double track on the Drummondville Subdivision in the foreseeable future, and not...

So it seems (discussion in groups.io) that the detour 14/15 trains were crewed by a CN pilot and VIA crew at freight speeds. In theory, a consist with a crew experienced with running the territory at Class 3/4 passenger speed could have shaved even more time than the three hours they saved...