denfromoakvillemilton
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Kennedy Jct has to be done for this right? And that's 2023/4ish now.They run midday trains now, there is enough passing capacity for hourly service. The double track will enable better headways than that. But they don’t need complete double tracking to get to say 30 minute 2 way service.
The big constraint at the moment is actually when the peak service is running, because there isn’t any capacity to run in the opposite direction against a fleet of closer-spaced trains. At present midday service can’t start until the last rush hour train has reached Scarboro, and it has to finish before the first rush hour train comes out of downtown. So there are gaps in the schedule. It will take the full double tracking to remedy this.
Even more important, rush hour trains can’t double back to make a second run at rush hour. They do their one trip to Lincolnville and park for the night. That is very expensive, because it takes twice as many trains (at say $40M a trainset) to operate the service. The double tracking will improve the fleet efficiency dramatically.
- Paul