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As a longtime armchair GO analyst around here (including my well-known GO article from 2015), I have discovered lots of evidence that Metrolinx is now seriously considering battery trains for Kitchener Line. Summary (For Those Unfamiliar With Battery Trains): Battery trains have arrived in...

Breaking News: Legalization of electric-assisted kickscooters in Ontario Ontario is now asking for discussion about escooters (until Sept 12) This is going to become a very popular thread in 2020 once these are legalized. They are now HUGELY popular in some cities outside Ontario. People are...

GO redesigned their website to follow accessibility law. Unfortunately, the accessibility law is flawed. A great GO employee (now probably scolded by manager trying in good faith to follow accesibility las) revealed a good workaround. Now it is gone. This was amazing, seeing a web clone of...

Government-Created Masterplanning Maps & Proposals I've always been fascinated by the 25-year masterplanning cycles for public transit and regional transit, often done by different transit agencies but now much more co-operatively (TTC, Metrolinx, etc). Eventually, UrbanToronto.ca should write...

First, the compliments. Credit where credit due. Many do love our Presto cards (when they work properly!) and the newer presto add-fare machines (when they don't crash!). And GOTransit added a boatload of extra Presto machines last year to the Bay West Teamway, which helped a huge deal, in...

GO Transit has been installing digital signage on their trains. - 12 screens, visible from all seats. Some of them are double sided. - Beginning with accessibility coaches - Eventually all GO coaches. Upgrading 2 coaches at a time. - Will begin displaying GO route and destinations next year...

Presto and Bike Share Toronto has apparently teamed up: It looks like unlimited bike rides (up to 30 min each) all year long for $45+tax for Presto cardholders. Today, this webpage appeared: https://www.bikesharetoronto.com/presto I tested the shopping cart, and indeed -- $45+tax.

[Edit: The Hamilton General Service Discussion thread has been moved back to UrbanToronto, at least for now] Hello, There are major forum-breaking bugs on SkyriseCities. My thread was on UrbanToronto for almost a year before recently being moved to Skyrise Cities. Could you please move the...

Happy New Year! I have accidentally dug up a rare treat for Toronto transit enthusiasts: Original 1943 full color film of Peter Witt streetcars in original service! That's pre-PCC! This is what a Torontoian rode in Toronto during the Roaring '20s. In living color, not merely black and white...

Since underpasses are an udderly underrated unforunate ugly fact of life... ...and toronto finally got token movement towards tolerable underpasses. Finally we see beautiful ones by Canadian standards even -- which is "slightly better than mediocrity" -- this is now a brand new hidden...

Hello, I have been having difficulty finding out how to edit my location in my profile (e.g. Hamilton vs Toronto). I know how to do this on many systems such as vbulletin and phpbb, but somehow the profile editor on this system is escaping my ability to edit Location. Where is it edited? I...

With the Games becoming close (July 10-25), here's an excellent suggestion few people know about: Currently, a PanAm or ParaPanAm ticket acts as a de-facto daypass to all of GTHA's transit services. This include the expensive GOtrains. Even if you go to work before a PanAm game! There are...

This topic deserves its own separate thread.

Hello, I post huge posts. New forum software upgrade has a smaller post size limit. Today, I had to backspace some of my big post text I just wrote today because one of my posts exceeded 10,000 characters. If you want me to keep posting useful posts like these (painfully trunctdated to 9975...

Hello, The new forums now uses text that is much smaller (including the forum page numbers like [1] [2] [3]), and are much harder to tap on a touch screen. Many of us surf UrbanToronto during transit to work, such as a GO Train. You all know how often I post in "Transportation". I don't want...

Hello, I find serif fonts (Times New Roman) hard to read. Can you please change post text back to san-serif, please (like Verdana or Arial etc) Or provide multiple forum themes, so users can have a choice of switching the whole forum site back to San-Serif please? Thank you!

UPDATE: New November 22, 2017 News: GO is going to deploy ETCCS -- Enhanced Train Control and Conventional Signaling: Parsons secures Metrolinx ETCS Contract This is a hybrid between European ETCS and traditional railroad signalling. It has a moving-block upgrade path. ETCS Level 3 is...

Hello, Over the recent years, impressive technologies have occured. I don't see a thread that consolidates this, because they are all interconnected. Today, we take Google Maps (or other map apps) for granted. ...But under the hood, when you think of it, it is an engineering breakthrough --...

The Great Platform Height Debate (converting train stations to high platform) Over the next ten to fifteen years, we will have lots of trains with various platform height requirements, running over the Metrolinx rail: - GO Trains (low only, with center car high platform) - VIA (low and high) -...

Torontoian become Hamiltonian here, I am creating a new thread specifically for Hamilton since there are a bunch of transit developments occuring for Hamilton, and other GTHA regions have their thread. - Hamilton Street Railway (HSR) -- local bus service - GO service - Hamilton LRT, a big...