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ICTS is the absolute worst choice, all the expense of a subway with the worst capacity, and you're Bombardier's bitch for life. What a gimmick, it's no surprise the Canada Line in Vancouver passed on it.
ICTS is the absolute worst choice, all the expense of a subway with the worst capacity, and you're Bombardier's bitch for life. What a gimmick, it's no surprise the Canada Line in Vancouver passed on it.
Oh, and RE: ICTS on Eglinton? VERY OPPOSED. We would have to tunnel the whole thing in order to avoid huge operational problems inherent to ICTS and the SRT ("Shit guys, one centimetre of snow! Looks like shuttle buses on Eglinton again!") and at that point the costs would be so high we may as well build a subway. I'd prefer a subway provided the government threw in the money for it.
ICTS is the absolute worst choice, all the expense of a subway with the worst capacity, and you're Bombardier's bitch for life. What a gimmick, it's no surprise the Canada Line in Vancouver passed on it.
York South-Weston Councillor Frances Nunziata, who was mayor of the former City of York when Queen's Park spent $150-million to cancel an Eglinton subway line, says she would rather have an LRT built within the foreseeable future rather than wait a generation or more for a subway. "I don't want to stall the project."
Those advantages have nothing to do with ICTS technology. Vancouver was really evaluating surface vs. elevated lines. An LRV running on an elevated track is all that and a piece of cake, and cheaper.
It was only ever economical for Vancouver because they had a large ICTS system already, so they won't have to order a whole different type of vehicle.
Why would we go through the trouble of building grade-separated infrastructure, such as a continuous elevated viaduct, only to run dinky light rail vehicles on them? I guess there is some literal truth to Transit City boosters putting streetcars on a pedestal.