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Nitpick: You only have to do 25 until you have begun to occupy the intersection. Once you are into it, you can accelerate to your target...

"Things that I may believe in that clearly won't happen anytime soon" for $100 please, Alex. The ability to attract investment is...

The TTC started publicly discussing the bus route changes about 2 years before the two lines were originally anticipated to open. But...

It sounds like the train was ahead of schedule. If a train is substantially early into a station, the signal system will not allow it to...

Sure, but we don't give those people the time-of-day. What you will get more arguments about is the level of subsidy. Some posters here...

They actually did this by straight up buying the tracks. Elsewhere, you will see the impact of them not owning the tracks.

Friendly reminder that this is the ALTO and not the VIA Rail thread, but I once was greeted at Paris Gare de l‘Est on a Friday afternoon...

Are they closer than they were 20 or even 10 years ago? You can look at the numbers yourself, they're in the public domain. But the...

That's the other side of demand management - historical trend monitoring. Fridays and Sundays are historically the busiest days of the...

I'm amused at how much faith you manage to put into technology. Dan

First off, welcome to the forum. In fairness, this was on you guys. Crosslinx had the same problem - their competing bidder estimated...

And that's precisely what their "storm service" call does. A lot of expresses get downgraded to locals, and fewer crossovers are used in...

A DMU is a locomotive, and is subject to all of the same regulatory requirements of one. Look up "FRA 92 day inspection". Dan

When everything is bespoke, the fewer times you need them to engineer a solution the cheaper it will be. If we could get more cities to...

So those rain drops falling from the sky and hitting me in the head at 8.30 were a figment of my imagination then? For the record, the...