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You can find the answer to this question by looking at train schedules.

This is the bracing that has allowed the former 10 mph (16 km/h) slow order for UP trains at high-level platforms to be increased to 30 mph (48 km/h). It's a very noticeable improvement for the speed of trains entering and exiting stations. 2-car trains can now accelerate at full power out of...

Given the size of Ottawa (1.5M metro area) it probably makes most sense to include a relatively central station location despite the travel time implications. In that case Alto could reuse the existing railway that the federal government already owns and the relatively central railway station...

That's where the original Transitway station was. It sucked because you always needed to cross the crazy pickup/dropoff lanes and bus lanes in front of the station to get between the OC Transpo station and the Via Rail station. The current location is much better since it allows people to...

That does currently happen using the two separate double-track segments but one of those trains is always not in service due to the requirement to sit in the Maple siding for a while. Making one continuous double-track segment would eliminate that delay, making the deadhead trips useful for...

It would make sense for them to start grading work there considering there's grading in progress both north and south of that site. Here's a quick scan of the construction progress shown in the May 2025 aerial image on Google Earth. The french school is the gap just north of where the Barrie...

If Shunt Enhancers are in fact installed on the ONR trains (and it wasn't a misunderstanding by MTO) this would be huge news for Via, who has been saying it's impossible to install shunt enhancers because they're not approved for use in Canada

Yeah I think those 3 km would have been better off in the hydro corridor to save a few minutes. Obviously it's too late now. I don't think the eastern extension makes sense in general. It's 6 km from Finch West station to Finch Station, but it's only 4 km from Sheppard West station to...

And why can't we do that in Toronto?

Thanks for this! I'll copy the data into my own spreadsheet so I can play around with it. "Faster than 6 Finch West" is not interesting to me - pretty much everything is faster than 6 Finch West. What I'm much more interested in is how the best case scenario for a median ROW compares to the...

Snow doesn't need to be cleared from the tram ROW other than at switches (which are supposed to clear themselves with the switch heaters*). As with railways, the tram itself keeps the snow from getting too deep. A tram is only 2.6m wide so if you have a 3.0m tram lane with a 0.8m buffer that's...

It is absolutely possible to have roads with one lane per direction in places with snow. It just means that the lane needs to be at least 3.7 metres wide to accommodate the blade of a full-size snowplow. If some snow falls back into the lane after the snowplow goes through, that's fine since 3.7...

I don't have time currently but if someone else does it would be interesting to compare a selection of LRT segments in North America and overseas, comparing the average speed of: - segments with median ROW without fencing or crossing gates - segments with median ROW with fencing and crossing...

Exactly. This is the fundamental miscommunication between traffic engineers and the general public. The public hears "transit gets through with as little delay as possible", while engineers hear "transit gets through with less delay than it would have if we completely ignored transit"

Based on my observations of delay sources on Finch, if they eliminate the speed restrictions at intersections/platforms and improve the TSP they should be able achieve Metrolinx's original 34-minute schedule, which is an 18 km/h average. That's faster than the bus, but still far short of any...