Recent content by jordanmkasla2009

You'd still need 1 60' bus to arrive at a stop every 100 seconds in each direction to attain the same capacity as 1 of these Alstom Citadis Spirit LRVs every 5 minutes

Saturday was their last day. Loblaws at 720 Broadview near Danforth is being rebrand to No Frills on May 3rd iirc

Considering the track has now been certified for "Design speed train movement" they're now essentially at the meat and potatoes of the systems testing which they haven't communicated the progress of

the bulk of what I've seen them doing has been final road grading, paving, sidewalk, land and hardscaping work which all needed the warmer weather to do. the rest I'm guessing has been deficiency corrections.

The way I see the sign says that this elevator gives you access on Level 3 to both directions of Line 1 and to the connecting elevator to Line 5, which would have on it's signage the directions of Line 5 as well as the Line 5 Concourse level. Out of frame of the picture looks to be the signage...

Odds are at this stage of testing the sensor inputs aren't enabled in the control cabinets to eliminate potential failure points with the signal programming so that the light cycles will operate consistently until they can properly test the sensor integration.

Much of the timidity comes from the fact that the operators don’t have full clearance to operate them as they would in normal service yet. There’s still a few defects that need fixing before they can gun it everywhere on the on-street section. Another thing to note is that right now there’s also...

ION doesn't use ATC. ION uses ATP. Vehicles on ION are controlled by the operator at all times with the ATP providing a display with maximum permissive speed limit. It's a different setup to what is going to be used on the Crosstown. On Line 5, the trains are driven by the computer in the ATC...

It's likely that Choice Properties REIT may have chosen to negotiate with IO and Metrolinx to provide an expansion of the existing railway easement and use of land for the portal and station construction in exchange for taking on the planning around the creation of the Transit-oriented Community...

A lot of mapping data is out of date when it comes to railways I find. However that corridor is still that wide and afaik you can still find traces of that old spur in the area too

They've been carting away scaffolding and equipment from most of the underground stations the past week or so

average speed is calculated by using the total distance of the line and the time it takes to get there. This includes the time decelerating, dwell times at stops and time accelerating. For context most bus routes have an average speed somewhere around 15-17 km/h the 29 Dufferin has an average...

that reason is pretty negligible since a lot of the pours that happened in the winter were cured using heated tents that raised the ambient temperature to allow for proper curing of the concrete. Concrete shrinks as it cures and sometimes it will shrink more or less than anticipated which can...

The sidewalks in front of the south east entrance of Finch West station have opened

It's currently winter. a lot of the work required to complete the above ground occupancy permits is dependant on warmer weather.