Recent content by robmausser

I actually completely 100% agree with this. The entire REM should have been Stadler Flirts on mainline rail, even over the bridge to South Shore. This would have allowed continued use of the tunnel by the Mascouche Line and use of the tunnel by Alto.

There was talk here that Metrolinx ran these trains faster on the above ground portions than once the TTC took the keys. Did anyone ever make a video or have videos showing this as pure evidence? I want to get this information to Josh Matlow. Thanks

Yep, and the Flexity Freedoms are their cousin, and working great on the Valley Line and ION. Should never have cancelled the order for the Finch LRT, the line wasn't ready in time anyways! Its funny because during the time, everyone was shitting on Bombardier (if you recall the whole streetcar...

I think the only way it would happen is if Toronto requests more for the Eglinton Crosstown option of 3 car trains and more vehicles because of the Extension to Renforth. Only then would it be enough orders for them to justify reactivating the production. Maybe. Maybe even then they wouldn't.

Yes, I've always suspected the reason that the SRT was crap compared to the Skytrain was because it was basically forced onto the TTC and the city. They didn't want it and so they mistreated it.

An alternative I thought up a while ago, but would require quite intelligent smart traffic lights, is a form of TSP where if a streetcar is behind left turning cars, to give the cars an advanced left to clear out of the way of the streetcar. And the advanced left would only be triggered by a...

I mean no one has to look further than Vancouver and the Sky Train. Everyone who says the SRT was crap clearly haven't seen whats possible with the technology when its managed properly.

Lol its Vision Zero. Zero Vision is an amazing rephrasing of that. There's only one way to get to literal Zero accidents ever. 0 km/h trains. Just park em and call it a day. Maybe they can be shelters in the cold for the unhoused.

This is one of the biggest problems with any of the "Transit city" era projects like Line 5, 6. Its why Metorlinx and Crosslinx sued each other multiple times. The contracts were poorly written. Mosaic basically underbid everyone else because the contracts basically let them do the bare minimum...

I thought that the slow zones on Line 2 were all fixed?

Yes its two fold. These trains have lots of problems but also they aren't designed what MX is now using them for. They are heavy, big, and were really designed for the Ottawa O-Train "MetroLRT" which is really not an LRT network. They are terrible for using in what I like to call "Streetcar+"...

Good thing we didn't use the trains on another Line in Ontario when it was obvious they were crap! ....

This is a gross oversimplification. The specific Citadis variants we are using on Line 6 are used nowhere in the world BUT the Ottawa O-Train. They are a special North American variant that is much different and a new updated version than used anywhere else in the world. Go read the O-Train...

UGH I love engineering solutions like this that get around government safety bureaucratic overreach that worsen rapid transit 🥵

The pro-subways-everywhere crowd have found their ideological scapegoat. They were frothing at the mouth this whole time, waiting for any moment to strike. You better believe that when all the issues with Finch are fixed, they still will lambast it like it still exists on opening day.