Recent content by Bureaucromancer

Amazing how literally every line has the ops people finding reasons not to run anything like full service.

That is what the business case indicates, bearing in mind we are talking operationally; no hope of it covering capital.

I'd say less current Trillium as such than O-Train day 0 pilot project. It really should be possible to implement a minimal DMU service on Fergus at very little cost.

Bear in mind that a Fergus sub Guelph - Cambridge shuttle is precisely the recommendation of the the Cambridge GO feasibility study. Personally I am strongly of the view that this is the ABSOLUTELY PERFECT use case for a tram train, eliminating southbound transfers at Pinebush. Ideally I’d see...

It's under 1 person / year of labour at the end of the day.

I suspect significant money, but a lot of that going to the port.

Who said I was surprised? a bit frustrated, but my expectations of this project have never been all that high, let alone since dropping the tunnel and letting the university limit frequency.

That’s exactly my point; I suspect the math hasn’t been done, and that there isnt all that meaningful a set of math to be done given the multiple layers of modelling needed. The second issue is, in other words, a far bigger part of the decision.

Is the priority improved service and ridership or shrinking the impact of providing the service? Making it either/or ends up with an obnoxious apples/oranges comparison that there’s probably no realistic way to create a meaningful quantitative analysis of.

Not too much of a stretch if the Shepard extension pulls off Shepard onto the CP ROW. Which I think might happen anyway given the benefit a connection would have even if not through routed.

Ugh. I think I’m going to regret saying this, but the BD/Shepard loop has been growing on me. If the plan remains to stay on Shepard, through routing Shepard trains south (to STC) using the slots opened by BD short turns at Kennedy solves a lot of the complaints about connectivity lost by not...

Depends what you mean. I think a subway is pretty much established as the priority for connecting to BD, but as long as Eglinton East to Malvern is a possibility some amount of (additional) rail on the eastern part of Shepard is very much plausible.

That kind of unexpected stuff burns time REAL fast. Think about how long it takes just to handle a platform overshoot on GO.

If we're going purely on this kind of anecdote, I don't think I've ever GOTTEN a seat on ION.

That someone went and put a special lock on the derail without something else that ought to prevent use is honestly the wildest part of this thing. It really SHOULD just be on a switch lock. As far as amount of dark territory, don't forget that the entire north mainline was dark until...