afransen
Senior Member
The penalty could be community service cleaning trains.The reasonable thing is to catch and ban these folks from riding.
AoD
The penalty could be community service cleaning trains.The reasonable thing is to catch and ban these folks from riding.
AoD
I agree it’s a good idea but we don’t enforce any sort of punishment.The penalty could be community service cleaning trains.
The reasonable thing is to catch and ban these folks from riding.
AoD
I've had that happen a few times with the soap.Riding LSW at late night yesterday - it was distinctively trashy. Riders sprawled (because there is no better way to put it) across multiple seats like it is a Triclinium; a washroom looking like it is a disaster and to add insult to injury - finding out there is no water after soaping up.
AoD
No idea. I met someone at Union coming in on VIA.I'm out of the loop, so I will ask - was there a country music concert downtown last night?
My experience is, that particular audience is far messier than most - death metal and hiphop fans go home peacefully, but the out of town country kids seem to expect to drink on the trains on the way downtown, and come home blind drunk afterwards.... leaving bottles and cans inntheir wake.
I don't usually single any one group out for judgement, and the music itself is within my tastes and I have been to such concerts ... but I won't deny having made this observation before.
- Paul
Those folks and groups of rural teens.I'm out of the loop, so I will ask - was there a country music concert downtown last night?
My experience is, that particular audience is far messier than most - death metal and hiphop fans go home peacefully, but the out of town country kids seem to expect to drink on the trains on the way downtown, and come home blind drunk afterwards.... leaving bottles and cans inntheir wake.
I don't usually single any one group out for judgement, and the music itself is within my tastes and I have been to such concerts ... but I won't deny having made this observation before.
- Paul
I don't think I saw this posted here...
Looks like a near miss with DOW truck last week at the Manse Rd crossing (LSE) is going to slow trains to 50 and have them blow the whistle. Presumably until the safety assessment completes...
This is one of the spots residents complained about the whistles before... Now they're back.
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Interestingly.. From the same late 2023 article:
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And what work are they doing and why did they remove the whistles/speed restrictions?
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Alvin, you're softening in your old age! LOL No caning?
Maybe I am just blessed with a strong bladder, but I try very hard to never have to use the restroom on vehicles. Intercontinental flights are usually the only time it becomes necessary for me.I've had that happen a few times with the soap.
Yes. But only kinda.
There are immediate plans afoot for work to reduce or remove the speed limit - cutting back brush along the ROW, along with some reshaping of the berms/ditches on either side of the level crossing to improve sightlines - but I am curious to see what they propose to the roadway changes to prevent this from continuing to be a problem.
I used to commute on VIA between Guelph & Toronto and we had to slow down for the same reason on super hot days. Kinda surprised (yet not), that we still haven't figured out how to fix this... 20 years later?Loading…
www.cbc.ca
"During prolonged periods of high heat, rail tracks have the potential to soften and expand that require us to run trains at slower speeds," the transit agency said in a news release issued Tuesday.
This just happened to my spouse on VIA the hot day last week.I used to commute on VIA between Guelph & Toronto and we had to slow down for the same reason on super hot days. Kinda surprised (yet not), that we still haven't figured out how to fix this... 20 years later?
I used to commute on VIA between Guelph & Toronto and we had to slow down for the same reason on super hot days. Kinda surprised (yet not), that we still haven't figured out how to fix this... 20 years later?