Recent content by ARG1

I mean you're not wrong that there's a small chance they'll have trains running all the way to Pearson, but there's no chance that this would come at the expense of building a station at or near downtown. The consortium is trying to make money here, they're not so stupid as to kneecap the entire...

Huh, I was under the impression that the change happened later after the DRL started being planned and they assumed an interchange with the subway. Good to know. That being said it's a massive shame that the Storage Track was scoped out. Would've been really useful to short turn trains.

I guess its worth noting that this is precisely the direction that Seattle took with many of its LINK extensions.

The LRT would be able to make use of the facilities and provide a direct connection to Union Station, and handle the heavy capacity that the network would require for the redevelopment of the portlands. Like this is the prime example of an area where investing the extra into LRT would actually...

Not quite. What makes a stadtbahn a statbahn is that the tunnels carry many different lines as a sort of feeder hub. Karlruhe is a prime example where the tunnel carries many different lines that feed out into many directions. This is what tram tunnels in Europe look like, they're either...

Well tram/metro abominations should also be a big no-no yet here we are. Nobody wants this solution, but if we have to in order to have some semblance of operational stability and consistent headways in the tunnel, it might be an option worth exploring.

Even in the worst case scenerio, an LRT here is frankly fine. What makes Finch West a problem is that its suburban - operating in an environment where speeds are extremely important and you need to travel several kilometres to reach anywhere useful. This isn't the case for a downtown LRT like...

The NCC likes Wellington because they want to make a tram loop that also goes over the Alexandra bridge and serves destination like the Art Gallery and and Museum of History. From a connectivity, capacity, and redundancy point of view there are a lot of benefits. However, the whole "shutting...

According to TTCHelps, introducing TSP at intersections will reduce the total end to end travel time down to... 46 minutes.

They should just make it uni-directional, Canada bound trips only.

I'm sorry... when did this happen? I wasn't aware that the alignment has been chosen already, and even though I do think sparks is better, I thought it was open and shut to go down Wellington.

Gonna play Devil's Advocate for a bit. If we are to treat the whole downloading process at face value, it was done so because those roads were no longer considered to be important, so its kinda useless to make the argument of "it used to be highway" since there's a "reason" why its no longer a...

It would be an interesting loophole to just increase the scheduled times for the train so that TSP is always on.

There are a bunch of off street segments whether in tunnels, viaducts, or just running the line off to the side like this: This is the problem with doing direct comparisons with "Light Rail" systems. Each line is so different whilst running in different environments that direct comparisons are...

I'll be nice and say that the section between Mt Olive and Rowntree Mills isn't that bad. At least the trains can reach 60km/h on this section.