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Inwards-facing seats does not work well on the Bombardier-platform cars, unfortunately. On the Siemens S70/S700, the middle truck is...

College eastbound at Lansdowne, trailing. It's a special design specifically for trailing switches, but has the geometry of a...

There are at least two other test installations on the mainline - Lansdowne and College is one, and I can't recall where the other one...

Because a simple flip-out ramp is too simple for what was needed in Toronto. The ramps on the Flexities have to be able to meet up with...

Good thing that they don't have a 10km/h limit over the couple of dual-blade switches that do exist on the network. Oh, wait a...

Once again... The issues are not with the switches, or the trackwork*. The issues are with the N/A control system. It is old and...

The other issue is the hydro corridor - the line has to drop in elevation in order to maintain adequate clearances from the lines in all...

Right, but the same 8/10/11 car trains are not operated with the same sets of cars all day, every day. The swap them around - like the...

Because there is nothing wrong with them. The equipment is designed to use them. On top of that, installing double-blade switches would...

I've not timed it, so I can't give you a quantifiable metric. At least from looking at the clock when I arrive home, my trips (home...

How many MTA or MBTA trainsets operated in fixed lengths that don't change? The answer is that none of them do - they reconfigure their...

I ride the thing everyday. There is a marked difference in how it operates now on the eastern section versus how it operated at...

Care to explain the UPX, then? Dan

While that seems to be the case on Line 6..... I'm not sure it is on Line 5. Or maybe they've since increased the limits or removed...

Yes - to put it simply, Crosslinx is in charge of maintaining the rolling stock for the next 30-ish years, and they don't like having to...