Recent content by roger1818

I posted this over on SSP:

With all the concerns about how to get the train to Union, along with criticism that Alto isn't extending into south-western Ontario, why not bypass Toronto altogether and use the money saved to extend the train to Windsor? The train could head east from Ottawa to Washago (where connections...

I think you mean the current corridor will be retained by CN. VIA owns very little of the current corridor. Alto will be taking over operations of VIA's current corridor services to improve integration (just like VIA asked CP Rail if they could take over their passenger services in the 70's...

The idea of converting YTZ into a few hundred luxury condos (this is prime real estate, it won’t be affordable housing) is very short sighted. Once you build over transportation infrastructure, it is gone forever. Besides, from what I’ve been told (I’m not an expert) Toronto has too many luxury...

Do you mean 20 transfer passengers per day or per flight? If per flight, that is 1/4 of each plane. Given that YUL and YOW represent less than 1/4 of the flights, that would mean 100% of the passengers on the flights from YUL and YOW are transfering (not likely). If per day, that represents 1...

So are you are saying that Toronto is too small and undesirable a destination to fill "78 seater Q400s" with with visitors or residents without help from Ottawa and Montreal (despite those cities also having flights to most of those destinations)? I am not saying that YYZ couldn't handle the...

They are building the whole thing, but are starting construction of Ottawa-Montreal leg first. I gather the next leg will start 2 years later (well before they finish the first leg).

Someone over on SSP suggested that Alto Open Houses could be a clue as to the planned route, so I decided to draw a Google My Map of the Open House locations and then connect the dots. This obviously isn't the exact routes as many of the open houses will be in the closest town, where they could...

I agree. While as others pointed out, the flights to destinations other than YOW and YUL could be moved to YYZ, there would still be demand for flights out of YTZ, as not much really changes with the creation of Alto for those other destinations, and the benefits of having using a smaller...

VIA kind of did this over a bit over a decade ago when they took advantage of the upgrades to the Kingston Sub and their ownership of the Brockville and Smith's Falls Subs to approximately double the frequency between Ottawa and Toronto. The result was more than doubling of ridership on the...

This made me wonder, what are the busiest airports in "The Corridor." According to Wikipedia, in 2024, it was as follows. I would have included the Total Passengers, but for some reason it is missing for some airports. You can get a rough idea by looking at the airports above and below it...

There are so many things wrong with that map! :oops:

Reading over the News Release, the thing that caught my eye was that they are highlighting that this first segment spans two provinces. It reminds me that as a federal project, its primary focus is interprovincial transportation. While there will be a lot of intraprovincial riders as well, by in...

The question becomes, what incentive does CPKC have to sell their ROW if they still have to maintain their own tracks. A huge part of the value proposition would be that Alto would pay to upgrade and maintain the track and CPKC gets to reduce their operating costs. Similarly, CN isn't going to...

If I had to guess, ice and snow buildup somehow prevented uncoupling.