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The TTC actually did this diversion 2 or 3 times (2 at least). I recall it worked fairly well, certainly better than doing a large scale bus substitution (which would have probably been Ossington to Broadview), though of course it would not have been possible with weekday peak frequencies. They...

Just from my experience riding the subway the RSZ going south at St Clair West and going west at Sherbourne seem to have been lifted. So I think that map is wrong.

The clearances are generated by computer, the RTC can see all active clearances graphically on a track diagram and the software checks the RTC's work. And yes, if a crew makes a mistake and operates outside their authority, there is no immediate way for the RTC to know. Very unlikely, likely...

St Clair West to Dupont has been lifted. It felt real nice to finally ride at line speed through this section.

Piggyback is still hanging on in the US (though I'm not sure all the class 1's still offer it anymore) but is in pretty steep decline there too. UPS and FedEx (and indirectly the USPS which contracts these companies) were/are major piggyback customers, if anything the huge 00s Amazon prime...

He's talking about the CP "Expressway" service which was a trailer-on-flatcar/piggyback service which are dead in Canada with the exception of a few remote access trains, not a typical intermodal train with ISO containers. I think CP operated this as more or less a unit train which ran on a...

It would almost be better to shut this section down for a few weeks to do 24 hour work rather than have months of slow zones. The main problem is this might not be possible as it would cut the rest of the line off from the Wilson yards.

One of the underappreciated positives of this line will be significantly improved access to Sunnybrook and ET Seton park. Especially given how overcrowded the island ferries are.

The eastbound trip does not take that long though it's still much longer than driving. I believe the train arrives in Vancouver quite early in the morning and waits until a "normal" wake up time, since this is a sleeper train VIA does not want to force passengers to wake up and detrain at 3 or 4...

There were tracks on Rogers Road until at least 1998, according to old usenet posts. The track is visible in aerial photos from the 90s, but not 2005 aerial photos, so the track would have been removed sometime between 1998 and 2005. Interestingly the same photos show the track east of Old...

This plan almost makes me think the GTAA would have been better off extensively rehabbing the T2 building and turning it into a pier or satellite for T1 (with groundside access, check in, security, baggage claim, CBSA etc moved to the new terminal). Unlike the old T1 Aeroquay, T2 wasn't...

So FlixBus has mostly recreated the core of the old Greyhound Canada service in Ontario. I think the only major thing missing is the milk run services from Toronto to the Ottawa Valley and eastern Ontario (to places like Pembroke and Bancroft).

I believe Broadview is not properly signaled for bidirectional terminal operations (for instance there is no reverse direction signal on the westbound platform). AFAIK from the centre track to the EB platform, the operator would receive a call-on signal, and the move into the platform would not...

This has to be the worst TTC meltdown in many years. Probably the worst since pre-COVID times.

Yes, this makes me think either the cleanup is far more complex than originally estimated, or the MoE is involved. If the TTC doesn't anticipate the line will be up for the afternoon rush they should be communicating that right now. I feel the TTC was better for this when Andy Byford was running...

Yes, there really should be at least one more crossover to allow service to reach Yonge in a disruption. I remember reading somewhere (it may have been an old usenet post) that the TTC was considering installing a crossover at Bay Lower for exactly this reason. I also wonder what it would take...

The Hamilton express was originally a Grey Coach route that I think predated even GO itself. Didn't it operate out of the Bay Street coach terminal before the original USBT was opened? There was a similar service to Oshawa, though the service (in the 80s?) was removed entirely from downtown to...

I suspect the preference for most riders is a one seat ride, even if it's slow and unreliable, rather than having to transfer from trains that are often already overcrowded. But yes, I suspect some of those USBT-Milton trips will take well over 2 hours in practice.

I used the 21 between Mississauga and Toronto frequently about 13 years ago, and even then it was very unreliable certain times (Saturday afternoons especially) due to heavy traffic in Mississauga and on the QEW/Gardiner. It must be substantially worse now. The new 21 schedule has lots of weird...

I'm not sure what actual rule changes this would require (or whether TC would actually consider this adequate), but the most logical way to fit high speed turnouts into the CROR rules would be to use the flashing green limited speed aspects with a plaque - the same way the solid green medium...