Recent content by Burnt creek

Sunday Feb 8th would be a very odd date for an opening. From a PR perspective, you couldn't pick a worst date in calendar because the public and media focus will be elsewhere on that date. for example: 1) Its Super Bowl Sunday. Game usually starts around 6PM and last until 10. That plus...

Ok fair enough. I googled it and that's what came up. I trusted Google. I cant tell what is fake and not fake and i cant tell that that is fake. But what I can tell you with certainty.is that i was there for the world cup and rode that line almost every day for a whole week and that fake...

I know the stories. Of course health and safety should be first and foremost but some where there must be middle ground between the situation in the Gulf states and what we are experiencing here where we are talking 15 years to complete a three stop subway extension. By the way, i could be...

We are talking 2035 or 2040 and yet, it took 6 years to complete the entire subway system in Doha with some stns having platform screen doors i might add. Construction began in 2013 and opened in May 2019. Official opening of Phase 1 included 3 subway lines (Red, Green, and Gold Lines). It...

The plans to build the FWLRT go way back prior to 2016. That's what I was referring to. I was referring to the time elapsed from the conception of the project (the plan or the approval to go ahead) all the way to the day it is in service. If you look at it that way, the FWLRT took much...

Forgot to mention. I think it might have taken less time to build all the infrastructure for the Montreal Olympics (including the Big O) than it took to complete the FWLRT (i.e.: Streetcar)

2026 is the 50th anniversary of the Montreal Olympics. A project in which expenditures in capital cost & operating expense are estimated to have been in the range of 1.6 Billion CAD; that is in 1970's dollars. So in today's dollars that is obviously much higher than the public expenditures in...

True but GO changes their bus routes. I know of one example of nearby route for GO (to the airport) that got changed last year and I still don't know why. The service can be very infrequent. You are limited with GO unless you are lucky to have nearby Go Bus stop. With Line 5 to the UP...

True, but I still think that the extra fare for the UP Express (as opposed to integration with TTC fare) is still something that the people will pay for if they know that they are getting a premium service. And most importantly, the combined fares of TTC and UP Express will still be much much...

I am going to go on limb and predict that there will be no where near the type of criticism of this line compared to Line 6 (FWLRT). First of all ,the station spacing west of Don Mills seems reasonable to me. East of Don Mills could be another story though. But still, most of the line...

A couple of weeks ago, there was a lengthy service disruption in areas of King Stn (I believe) and it was during rush hour. Trains and commuters were stopped and not moving for very long periods. We have all seen similar interruptions in service for a variety reasons (i.e.: repair work, or...

It isn't different. GO transit, just like the TTC, are operators of the service. Metrolinx manages the projects. OK (now that I think about it) i recall now that it does say the word: " Metrolinx" on the GO Trains which could suggest they are operators of the GO service. A city bus driver...

Not to defend Metrolinx but Isn't Metrolinx just executing a plan/mandate? I always thought that that was their role; Project management. If you tell them to build a rail transit service between point A and point B and to put X number of stops, then that's what they will.do. Someone has...

I think that you are bang on. I joined this around 2015-16. This was a time when there was a lot on planning discussion on the future of transit. At that time, I advanced the same argument that transit city and the like was really about streetcars and that the term LRT was just a way "to...

According to your map, Ottawa should be affected by the same weather system and snow fall as Toronto today. But i cannot seem to find any reports or news of service disruptions on the Confederation line due to weather. I did find this link & page (below)...