Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

[kEiThZ]

The base service plan modeled was hourly, but with departures up to every 30 minutes as demand warrants. According to Alto reps.

Though, if you map the 30 trains, per direction between Montreal and Toronto quoted in the article, you get 30 minute departures on a 15-hour span of service (6am-9pm)

The additional runs to get to 72, presumably are Montreal-QC, and/or partial corridor runs.

Weird to have express service and 30 min frequencies. The trains would have to pass each other. All to save 30-40 mins? Doesn't make sense.

But we're a decade out from seeing a real schedule so whatever.

 

[chrisw]

Weird to have express service and 30 min frequencies. The trains would have to pass each other. All to save 30-40 mins? Doesn't make sense.

But we're a decade out from seeing a real schedule so whatever.

Who's to say the express service will be able to save more than 30 mins?

 

[legoswmonkey]

The trains would have to pass each other.

With total control over the design of (most of) the trackage I think it's reasonable to expect some third passing tracks especially near Peterborough and Trois-Rivieres stations.

 

[crs1026]

In the context of Alto, I don't read "express" to mean "non-stop", any more than I would consider a conventional VIA corridor train that adds a stop at only Belleville to be a "local" train. Lots of creative ways to schedule such that speed and separation are maintained and midpoints get some service. Too early to say much, I suspect that even the Alto team is only speaking in broad terms just yet.

- Paul