Innisfil's Dufferin Jog.I don't think this has been posted, apologies if I missed it.
Innisfil has a tender out for a Grade Separation study:
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From here: https://www.innisfiltoday.ca/local-...oad-and-20th-sideroad-delayed-to-2022-3581420
We find:
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Aerial Pic of area:
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When you say "below the brow" can you be more specific for those of us less familiar? The topography in that area is pretty challenging, and the sprawl severs a lot of potential options. Also, how does CP access Hamilton's industrial area and where does its intermodal yard near McMaster go?A good and interesting myth disspelled.
Not to stir the pot, but my (quick) take is West Harbour should be the future of GO train service in Hamilton from an efficiency perspective. It is the direct line to/from Niagara. Someday, if we ever get serious about achieving common goals of passenger and freight in this country, the Hamilton sub should be abandoned below the brow in favour of a bypass right adjacent to Hamilton Airport (to enable direct or indirect rail-to-air freight). The lower Hamilton sub can then be used as a light rail line between some appropriate point east in the city and Bayview Junction / Aldershot.
Speaking with Niko Warbanoff, the CEO of Deutsche Bahn’s international operations, the promise is clear. He says that by applying new IT, built around industry standards, there will be 12 more trains available to service commuters without actually adding any cars to the rolling stock of the Go Train system.
“So, one result will be, and we know that already today, that by using the new IT, that we will be able to have 12 additional trains per day, more on the network than today, and this increase in capacity is without any changes in the infrastructure or anything else,” Warbanoff said during an interview in Toronto last month.
This is actually interesting, though, query in what time frame those 12 trains exist? 12 more at once? 12 more trains per hour?
I know it is customary on here to assume Metrolinx (and VIA, and Transport Canada…) are a parcel of idiot know nothings, but is this actually plausible?It is usually hard to decipher jounalists' explanations, but I read this to say that DB believes the planned system can be operated with 12 fewer trainsets than ML would have used, once certain improvements are made. That frees up an awful lot of equipment for further service additions.
- Paul
I know it is customary on here to assume Metrolinx (and VIA, and Transport Canada…) are a parcel of idiot know nothings, but is this actually plausible?
This is what my first thought was about crew scheduling and dispatching services perhaps on in-house built IT systemsI do wonder about the number of trainsets that sit in layover yards at mid-day. Perhaps different scheduling processes could keep more in service, or change the deployment somehow..
- Paul
i feel like this transition will have a ton of delays and disruptions which will be forgiven because DB is new and German, but if Metrolinx had tried to introduce the same software and practices with the same result but also the same benefits after the few weeks of pain, it would end up as the “hello, Human Resources?!” meme
The term you are looking for is "brownfield" vs "greenfield"This is what my first thought was about crew scheduling and dispatching services perhaps on in-house built IT systems
I though of it because of recent issues with airlines and their systems developed in-house long ago which were considered a money saver at the time (90's/00's), but in recent years those systems have plagued some airlines that admitted they can never "catch up" to problems because the systems of booking crews and changing flights are so old, so slow and rely on so many manual inputs that even minor incidents cause cascading delays.
More importantly, the software cannot be upgraded because the code is old with so many different people's work added on to it over 20+ years that it requires weeks of work to make sense of to process even a minor change that won't have unintended consequences, or cause the system to stop working entirely, so they simply stop updating it all together.
So maybe DB just has more modern software that can have the scheduling of both crews and trains ported over easily.
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