Recent content by dowlingm

What does the HSR enterprise generally contribute to the capital and operating budgets of the relevant track corridors and stations, in such cases? I have noted before that Alto would be benefiting from Ontario's and Toronto's combined investments in the USRC and Union Station, but requiring...

and yet that same arrangement did not save the Flexity downtown order.

https://www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2021/ie/bgrd/backgroundfile-168557.pdf (June 18, 2021) The City was told if it didn't permit elevated speeds compared to the adjacent street, it would cause a breach of contract. It was told that this was in keeping with Vision Zero. Five years later trams...

I'm not generally in favour of gadgetbahns but it seems on brand for NF

That’s the sort of thing the new spillway further south is meant to put a stop to, no?

If Doug Ford and Galen Weston and the rest get their way, LCBOs may soon be going the way of the Beer Stores

Is there a likelihood Humber may seek to build over the parking lot (thus providing an indoor path) using the improved (yes, yes) transit as justification?

Stuart Green “misspoke” so the CBC article has a correction and the headline no longer mentions 10 minutes That said, clearly the rage about the LRT’s speed broke containment beyond transit forums and Bluesky

I think we discussed this before but wasn't crossing detection an issue on London-Sarnia when VIA were trying out RDCs? Presumably whatever VIA had in mind at that time, running them through to Ottawa wasn't it.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2l8kq52y8o

My recollection is that PTC installs in the US were not easy in many cases because there wasn't prior provision for it in various locomotives/cabs. We may have an opportunity soon to see how long it takes to fit ETCS into an various Metrolinx cabs and I suspect in at least some cases it won't be...

They have signed a construction agreement (per the recent board minutes) with Metrolinx for the St Clair UPX station so clearly there is some work on/by the MacTier that CPKC can live with, in the right circumstances

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/rem-train-dead-critical-condition-9.6989021 "A group of people walking attempted to cross Highway 10 and the REM tracks to reach the other side. Despite the arrival of a train, they continued walking," Sûreté du Québec spokesperson Sgt. Ève Brochu-Joubert...

If that happened in Florida the Bluesky urbanists would have been jumping to blame Brightline. As for the 11 minutes saving from express services in posts further above, John Tory was willing to spend hundreds of millions if not billions to save drivers half that.

Can't take a track section away from CPKC by provincial fiat whether they liked it or not the way the DM line was removed from Exo.