Recent content by dsantesteban

I know I'm going back a bit, but this looks like it's going to be an entrance (presumably the accessible one) from Poyntz Road.

Why should Transit City be built? Hey transit nerds. I'm doing an incredibly biased newspaper article on Transit City. Give me every single bad thing about Transit City getting cancelled. I have a bunch, but I want more. And please be very creative. Thanks, - dsantesteban

Ok. I meant outside of the Northeast Corridor. Or in other words, THE PROBLEM WITH ACELA IS THE LOCAL SERVICES!!!!! The problem is that it doesn't have a dedicated high-speed track. That bogged down Acela, and it will bog down Via unless if they build a separate track, maintain it, and...

Ok, I've only been to europe twice, and i never saw a regional train outside of paris and venice. So I might've been wrong. But Brantford is a mostly useless station. Forgot about Dorval, and put Kitchener in with Sarnia and Belleville. But I'm not letting off of this position. The bus...

Frankly, burn me if you must. The only useful Via Rail stops in the corridor that have a useful purpose are Toronto, London, Windsor, Kingston, Montreal, Kingston, and Ottawa. Maybe Sarnia and Belleville. Everywhere else, the regional bus network kills the railways day and night. That's why I...

Exactly. If you live within reasonable proximity of a city, you'll get a regional railway. Otherwise, it's city or bus.

No tracks are owned by GO Transit or Metrolinx. The Richmond Hill line is owned by CNR. The only CP line is Milton (maybe it's Georgetown; both of those lines are irrelevant to me anyways). Commuter trains are required by law to have priority. And the line only runs in the morning and...

People who live in Europe never take Regional rail. Buses easily go faster than regional trains in Europe. Amtrak has an extremely ingenial system in many places. They integrate with Geryhound (i think) outside of the Northeast Corridor, so people who live in the middle of nowhere will take a...

Sorry. Amtrak pwns Via Rail in its sleep. So what Amtrak does is automatically the right thing to do. The Europeans don't really run much local service either. And we all love European mass transit systems.

Don't run longer trains, genius. I'd rather have more frequent trains. Right now, when I travel to Detroit by Via Rail, I have two reasonable choices for arrival times. And on the way back, I only have one. The existing corridor is OK for the most part. There are a few curves that aren't too...

This is a bit dreamy, but I think it's 100% do-able with Presto coming in. The first thing that needs to be done is merging all of the various transit systems across the GTA. Maybe not GO. Then just split it up into zones, or even better, charge based on pure distance. The big advantage to...

Oiling our rails is the most incredibly stupid thing I've ever heard. For the same long-term cost, Via can easily build its own dedicated tracks between Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, London, Kingston, Guelph, and Windsor. Maybe integrate the express to PEarson with that. If you need local service...

Honestly, the thing I really love about the train, more than the savings and the not-having-to-worry-about-stuff-in-your-carry-on-being-banned, is just the comfort level. You can't sit in groups of four on a plane facing each other. You can't get up and walk around on a plane. And most of all...

As much as you may disagree with me, there's no point in calling them "suicide barriers" because a suicidal person will find a way to commit suicide. For example, now that there are suicide barriers on the PCV, more people are jumping from Millwood Road and Overlea Boulevard. What it will...

I just wanna point out without going too far off-track, I don't really understand why somebody would go by plane anywhere in the corridor. For the same price as a plane ticket, you can go first class by train to Ottawa. You get free wi-fi on the train, an amazing meal, but the real payoff is...