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You raise a good point about having some trains running full route length while the underground sections doing a short-turn. The...

This is a good idea and such trains are known as Electro {not electric} Diesel Multiple Units {EDMU} and the term is commonly used for...

That will NEVER happen. The long suffering people along Eglinton have been put thru hell for the last 15 years and now that the line is...

A BRT/streetcar/LRT are as fast or as slow as you want to make them. It has nothing to do with the technology but rather how the system...

I remember saying YEARS ago that I didn't see the advantage of this line being LRT as opposed to a BRT and seems I was right. There is...

Streetcars/trams an LRTs can be equally fast and reliable and also equally the opposite.............they are what you make them...

At this point, I think it's fair to say that ML has no intention of starting any electrification for years or even at all. Hence, GO's...

The debate is not dumb but rather why we have to have it in the first place is. Of course, with dumb, you can also throw in shocking...

Pages ago, it was posted that the speed along the street running section was 19 km/hr. By getting rid of a couple of stops and...

This lack of signal priority is made more difficult due to these damn left-hand turns. Now, ML seems surprised that it is a problem...

This line should have been a subway which means it could also have elevated sections and it should have had far fewer stations on the...

Well just when Torontonians thought that the Second Coming was going to beat the Eglinton Line, it opens. The great news is that it...

Obviously streetcar priority is a great idea and well overdue. One of the problems implementing it in Toronto however, is the number of...

Seeing the system isn't working, can they not just "turn off" the entire emergency breaking system and just go back to the tried and...

Notice how the release said "some" signal priority and not total. That is about as vague and non-comital as one can get. Also, what is...