VIA Rail

[reaperexpress]

^^^The question is (as @andrewmaps said), how many REM trains will it to take to absorb all the people on a Mascouche Line train? I could see it easily taking 5 or more REM trains. Don't forget the REM trains won't be empty when they arrive at Côte-de-Liesse.

Yeah, that's definitely an interesting question. For northbound/eastbound Exo departures, I figure that passengers will be fairly spread-out among different REM trains as people won't all aim to arrive at the station exactly the same number of minutes before scheduled departure. The big question, like @andrewmaps said, is the westbound/southbound transfer.

The good news is that since that transfer is not cross-platform, passengers will be somewhat spread-out by the train doors and station stairways, since people will take different amounts of time to exit the train, and different amounts of time to reach a stairwell. With REM service every 2.5 minutes, the passengers probably wouldn't all arrive at the REM platform in advance of the same REM train. But I doubt the spread would be more than 3 trains.

I expect that the Exo trains will be smaller than they used to be, given that the transfer will indeed dissuade some ridership compared to the old fast and direct route (though it's still better than a 36-minute detour around the mountain). The old train sizes also included space for people from Canora and Mont-Royal stations, who no longer need to ride Exo at all.

 

[Allandale25]

A very brief reference to HFR in this.

Raising the Rails in Riverside: Metrolinx Comments

In a recent article Metrolinx Plans Major Grade Change on Lakeshore East Corridor I noted that a new set of drawings had appeared in the Ontario Line Neighbourhood Update, East web page showin…

stevemunro.ca

 

[Allandale25]

I would assume she noted HFR but I haven't had a chance to check.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1408485595903582222

 

[kEiThZ]

When are they going to move past words to shovels?

 

[roger1818]

When are they going to move past words to shovels?

When they have funding.

 

[cplchanb]

When they have funding.

that might be part of the next election promise

 

[wopchop]

When are they going to move past words to shovels?

But why? They are getting paid good money already for just the words. Shovels are too much effort.

 

[Bordercollie]

That's usually how it goes.

 

[crs1026]

When are they going to move past words to shovels?

Hey, it's not even five years of talk yet.

(For the record, the original announcement appears to have been Nov 8 2016, see message #1466 in this thread)

- Paul

 

[nfitz]

(For the record, the original announcement appears to have been Nov 8 2016, see message #1466 in this thread)

That's a lot longer than the VIA Fast proposal lasted, until the Liberal government cancelled. it.

 

[crs1026]

^After fact-checking myself further, it seems I was not correct. Reading backwards, it seems that YDS was talking up the HFR well before November 2016. See here and, even further back, here (EDIT: and back in November 2015, here)

Five years and counting.

- Paul

PPS - Two further bits of history and I'm not going further down the Memory Subdivision trackage. Here's an interview with YDS in the Star from April 2015 broaching the HFR idea. And, the March 2016 Federal Budget pg 107:

VIA Rail has developed a proposal for a high-frequency rail service within the Windsor-Quebec City corridor that could see VIA Rail operate on dedicated tracks exclusive to its services. This could permit increased service frequencies, improved on-time performance and reduced trip times. Budget 2016 proposes to provide $3.3 million over three years to Transport Canada to support an in-depth assessment of VIA Rail’s high-frequency rail proposal.

Three milion became many million, and here we wait....

- Paul

 

[Bordercollie]

It seems like not all corridor trains are LRC since I am currently on Train 71 to Windsor and it's an all HEP consist.

Looks like they didnt replace the seats on all of the rebuilt cars to match the LRC's but they did change it to split 50/50 forward back facing.

 

[Urban Sky]

It seems like not all corridor trains are LRC since I am currently on Train 71 to Windsor and it's an all HEP consist.

It seems like 71-78 and 84-87 are currently HEP, whereas all other Corridor trains are LRC:

Budd cars back on the corridor trains

groups.io

 

[Bordercollie]

It seems like 71-78 and 84-87 are currently HEP, whereas all other Corridor trains are LRC:

Budd cars back on the corridor trains

groups.io

I guess they didn't have the budget to replace all of the seats. They just put new apolstry on the old seats instead with new cushions.

But I thought the HEP I cars for long distance got all new sets? But they didn't do it for HEPII cars?

 

[Urban Sky]

I guess they didn't have the budget to replace all of the seats. They just put new apolstry on the old seats instead with new cushions.

But I thought the HEP I cars for long distance got all new sets? But they didn't do it for HEPII cars?

Can you remind me how old the HEP2 cars are?