aquateam
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Very short on time, will comment in detail later, but just received this link in my email, and I suspect a Cdn take on this in the press shortly, make that a *Toronto* take, other systems in Canada are vastly ahead on this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/...t-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
This applies to Cdn passenger rail too, and GO RER! Think Union Station as much as the subway when reading this.
Yes, "Crossrail again" folks. Suck it up, New York gets it...
Line 1, yes, already running two minute headway. USRC? Not that I can ascertain. It has been mentioned in connection with RER and electrification, and appears in some GO reports two years old. I'm unaware of any move to establish CBTC.
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...new-signalling-system-metrolinx-funded.21002/
Dwell on those figures for a moment. Inside the GTA there's more people outside of Toronto than in. The "downtown" in "relief line" has been dropped...due to the realization that relief is not needed so much within Toronto's border, but outside of it.
"Downtown" has been dropped from the name for branding purposes, not because people have decided that riders on the Yonge line are A-okay not being able to get on a train because it's so packed with people and that luring suburban drivers out of their cars is a worthier goal.
Any body kept entirely off the subway system is one less crush load. RER looped where the "Queen line" always should have been can and would do that.
I've shown you that this is false, multiple times, but you still repeat it. Please repeat after me: ENHANCED GO SERVICE DOES NOT ADDRESS CAPACITY ISSUES ON THE YONGE LINE.
So that is the catchment to service to relieve all subway lines. And building a subway, (initially to be run with four car trains) is not going to do it.
Again with you and the 4-car trains...