rbt
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Is any clarity available on this statement seeing as the "next month" is nearly done?
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Is any clarity available on this statement seeing as the "next month" is nearly done?
ssiguy2
Senior Member
The trains are proven as they are standard Coradia EMU trains, it's just the power source is different. Alstom are contracted out to run the trains/maintenance.
cplchanb
Senior Member
source that the Coradia EMUs are certified or will be certified to run in Canada?
ssiguy2
Senior Member
Well if they aren't then this conversation ends because RER is dead.
steveintoronto
Superstar
The Bluster Machine is broken.
rbt
Senior Member
My bet is Off-corridor (Package 2) station enhancements.
There are only 2 Exhibition related tenders that IO is involved with, and I still believe Ford would announce the $8B+ On-Corridor results himself (probably at Union Station).
Scroll to bottom to tenders involving IO:
APP-2020-Final-External-Updated-May-21-2019.xlsx
Edit: Sometimes I wish Canada had UK style bookies so I could place an actual bet on this type of thing.
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steveintoronto
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raptor
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rbt
Senior Member
Excellent question. We've been told that much of the original off-corridor (package 2) hasn't survived so I really don't know. I would assume at a minimum everything required to accommodate future track additions would survive (platform shifts, new pedestrian tunnels, etc.).
The original proposal was basically bringing all existing stations up to the same level as the newest and recently renovated stations. Adjusting platform height to get closer to a level boarding, snow melt systems, shelter from weather for the entire platform length, etc. Bloomington GO station is a good proxy for changes that would be applied to most older stations.
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nfitz
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With this government? I wouldn't bet the lot ...
Sure, in a hundred years, it will be electrified. Whose to say that the PCs might not just cancel this completely, in some austerity lark.
John Bisan
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nfitz
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As ha been pointed out in other threads, it's a bit worrying that the word "electrification" has been removed from the latest press releases - but was there in the older ones. It's possible that this is entirely diesel.
John Bisan
New Member
it's up to the proponents to choose the technology, (Electrified, hydrogen or others) , it wont be diesel
nfitz
Superstar
The gas plants were unused, and knocked down. They are still months to years before awarding most of these projects. And the stuff still exists once it's built ... it will get used sooner or later.
And whose to say it's the PCs? The worst offender for cutting GO Transit services and expansion were the NDP. Or perhaps a future PC leader will cancel what this one is doing ... which is exactly what PC Premier MIller did when he came in, quickly cancelling the very frequent subway-like electrified service on Lakeshore line that they were working on under Premier Davis. Sure, the infrastructure eventually got used for the dedicated GO tracks from Pickering to Oshawa, but all the electrification contracts were a waste ... and I don't recall much uproar about that.
Whose to say it will be 5-minute headways still.
I think you are wrong - and not everyone here knows that it can only be electrified. You are pre-assuming what kind of service that GO is tendering to operate ... which might fall back to the much simpler RER proposals the Liberals originally had, which didn't assume electrification was occurring.
Do you have a reference or source for that?
cplchanb
Senior Member
Skip to 4:30 where he clearly states that they are looking to replace diesel
Also at 9:02 and pretty much everything afterwards is really interesting.
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