UPX is not a "complete design failure"...much of the engineering is usable in other ways, it's an *implementation* failure. And some of that has now been corrected as best it can without further re-implementation. To do anything more with the present rolling stock is nigh impossible. And to add more is not an option either. We've got to stop looking at this as a "failure" and look forward to recovering what we can, without losing the original purpose, and making it part of something much bigger and better. The airport function remains a very valid and vital piece. The way it was done was a fiscal failure, obviously, but other than the rolling stock, it's time to move on. And unless MX show some sign soon of putting an emphasis on electrifying Bramalea south to Union, that corridor is stuck languishing. They're going to need to order in EMUs and very soon, delivery time is two years at the shortest, even for 'off-the-shelf' designs.
We get lots of station announcements...but as Paul is fond of saying, and he's very right...even bus-shelters will do just to get the thing started. They can build palaces later. We need some *cogent sign* that service is coming, and station announcements when the financing hasn't even been discussed, let alone appropriated is becoming more bizarre and obtuse every time it happens.
