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Some photos of trains with the young cherry trees at Rouge Hill GO Station.

Just happened to be on my train home today. It’s in the middle of the train. Maybe 7th or 8th car.

Yes that is correct. Should also add: the trade with Barrie Transit for 12m buses in exchange for 7m cutaway buses was called off.

Some good fleet news: 15 diesel buses should start coming in this month and 6 battery-electric buses should start coming in June. Hopefully they new buses allow for more service on some routes.

So it appears they may be finally getting their buses. There’s a Vicinty Lightning with the airport lettering at this year’s OTE trade show.

Riding a leased bus right now. Turns out DRT went ahead and installed the audio and visual passenger announcements.

Cut through the fence outside the station, which apparently, is a known problem.

Good luck to exo with their CRRC bilevels if SEPTA’s experiences is any indication. Thank God Metrolinx has stuck with the Bombardier Bilevel. https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/septa-cancels-contract-with-crrc-for-bilevel-commuter-cars/

I wonder if this is mostly due to college and university routes. If it is, I don’t really feel that impressed since it doesn’t necessarily mean people are choosing to use DRT.

Sinkhole just apparently opened up at Danforth GO Station. Not gonna be as smooth one if you’re coming from the East.

This is not the case. Volvo only bought the battery unit. Everything else belongs to someone else.

The MTA usually tests small batches of buses, especially new products on the market. They also have a small order of electric buses from Nova and a small order of electric coaches from Van Hool. Though the latter may be jeopardized by Van Hool’s current financial situation.

I’m kind of getting further off topic, but Solaris has the interest of a major transit agency in the US (the MTA). I’m told Solaris is currently looking for manufacturing facilities and has an eye one one in California.

One of their buses actually toured a few agencies in Ontario a couple of years ago.