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Never forget what they promised before the 2022 election in which they were re-elected with a majority of seats in Legislature.

If they want more baggage space in the Ventures they could potentially replace some or all of the seats that don't have any windows. These seats are not bookable by the public (thankfully), they're reserved for Via employees. I'm not sure under what conditions they would actually sit there, on...

Last time I took Via from Union, I saw my train to Ottawa sitting directly across the platform from the GO Train I arrived on. The doors were open so I could have just walked on, but I wanted to grab something to eat. So I went down the food court in the York Concourse, bought some food, and...

Kennedy to Rouge Hill is pretty much the only station pair where that would make any sense. Anywhere north of Kennedy or east of Rouge Hill it would be faster to take a 407/401 GO bus. And from Kennedy to Eglinton or Guildwood you're better off taking a TTC express bus. Is it really worth adding...

Yeah I saw that and it makes no sense. Lakeshore is the one with both express and local tracks. Stouffville has no overtaking opportunities whatsoever. Stouffville also stops at Kennedy very close by.

The drawing is ambiguous since I used the same colour for local services from both lines. My thinking is in the previous plan the Stouffville line local service could stop at Scarborough since there are other places for express trains to overtake locals. In the new plan there is no longer...

It would, but it sounds like the west end of the Guelph platform isn't going to be connected to the mainline anytime soon.

No, my guess is thr Stouffville line will not stop at Scarborough jct

I have lived in many places, including suburban areas like Waterloo and Vaughan, but it is only now living in the centre of Ottawa that I am seriously considering buying a car. And by far the main reason is that I can't count on OC Transpo to get me where I'm going when I need to go there. There...

Who said anything about a platform higher than the floor of the train? The situations the GO train needs to handle are: 127mm platform to 610mm train, and 610mm platform to 610mm train.

Great diagrams as always, but it's important to remember that this is a noise study not a service plan. So it is not telling you Metrolinx's best guess of service, it's providing their best case scenario, because that's the worst case scenario for noise. If they end up running less service than...

It's only misleading if you assume that it's showing every single track connection, which it obviously isnt. It's a diagram of typical track assignments for express and local services, hence the legend.

Bringing this old post forward since it's relevant: The discussion relates to the lack of separation between express and local trains due to the elimination of the grade separation. Instead of one 4-track corridor, LSE will need to operate as two 2-track corridors. At the same time as the...

I agree that the purchase itself isn't value engineering, but it could be a symptom of value engineering on the electrification plans. It's definitely related to delays in actually getting a service electrified, and might possibly be related to a reduction in the planned extent of...

This statement about "delivered with value in mind" also stood out to me since it reeks of "value-engineering", which despite its name is usually just cost cutting at the expense of the benefits that the project originally promised when its funding was approved. For example, they could scale...

In addition to the stopping pattern mentioned by Urban Sky, the current situation is that train service is poorly timed for lakeshore communities since it's optimized for through travel between major cities. For example, the first train of the day from Kingston to Ottawa doesn't arrive there...

Currently the GO tracks have a fairly sharp s-bend at Lawrence East station that limits trains to 40 mph (64 km/h). Other than that curve, the line between Kennedy and Agincourt is pretty much dead straight, so electric trains could cruise at 120 km/h between stops they smoothed out that curve...

Yes each minor stop adds about 30 seconds to the schedule in each direction (1 min round trip), which will increase operating costs by 1/3 of a bus/operator on a route with 3-minute headways. That's the number you need to take into account when balancing cost vs benefit. And in your analysis you...

Being a request stop makes it problematic because the likelihood of a passenger waiting to get on the bus is a function of the time since the previous bus. So it increases bunching by making late vehicles even later.

This is a delusional interpretation. The average stop spacing on the streetcar network is 250 metres, and the length of a GO train platform is 315 metres. Like nfitz pointed out, you'd literally need a continous platform along the entire line to have that, since the stops would overlap. There's...