Recent content by ssiguy2

Until this line get to, at maximum, 25 minutes then it's been a waste of time. Of course even 20 minutes is more than possible if the TTC stopped being afraid of hitting every unexpecting mosquito, Chow finally puts her money where her transit loving mouth is and does 100% transit priority so...

Then why is this considered a PPP? Why isn't the TTC doing the maintenance and for the vehicles, why not Alstom? This doesn't seem like a partnership but rather the province writing a private company a cheque which they instead could be writing to the TTC. This is probably why the Canada Line...

Yet another update.....Dec/17/25 Siemen's Mobility has just won a contract to supply Germany's Westphalia Region with 61 Mireo Plus Battery trains to ply on it's regional rail system. These 2 car trains {total length 50 meters} have the ability to run 120 km free of recharging. That is, of...

I'm curious, seeing Eg & Finch were both PPP, how much money did the private company {Mosaic?} have to put down for the privilege of running the route?

They should get rid of 5 of these stops. 18 stops on a 10.3 km line is ridiculous. Remember this was suppose to be RAPID transit. The stop on Yonge between Eg & Law is 1.5km and they manage so what make the people along Finch, and ditto for oncoming Eglinton, so damn precious? The fewer the...

I think there will be MASSIVE political pressure to get this line up and running before the World Cup and ditto for speeding up Finch. Even so, if Finch doesn't make the route within 25 minutes at a maximum, it is a complete waste of money. These lines of once TransitCity were advertised as...

And that is different from Chow how?

The TTC seems to be going out of it's way to make this line as slow as humanely possible but, once again, who controls the TTC? The City! The TTC is just a glorified branch of City Hall. They control their budget and when you control the money, you control. Full stop. The TTC has to do what the...

I disagree. While Ford certainly likes his cars and freeways, he is livid over this line and he has the right to be. When politicians open new infrastructure, they are there at the ribbon cutting smiles blazing hoping to sap the occasion for every political point it's worth. That's why they...

That would be a good thing. If the City can't gather the fortitude to put transit ahead of cars, then any new LRT would be a colossal waste of money and they sure won't get a nickel from Queen's Park.

Yes, the PPP was a fiasco but only for construction and design. The operational issues are 100% on the City. It's called follow the money. When you control the money, you control. Full stop. It is the City that sets the fares. It is the City that runs the municipal roads. It is the City that...

Once again, this is the City and Chow's fault. The City, ultimately, controls everything the TTC does because the City is the one that funds them and when you control the money you have complete control. Yes, the TTC has shown shocking incompetency but the bottom line is that the buck stops at...

There is a potential conspiracy here. Yes, the TTC cannot control the lights or even the top speed the trains are allowed to travel at while at grade. That, once again, is the City. That said, the TTC would love to get signal priority to get their vehicles moving and to save money........one...

Although incompetence runs deep at the TTC, there is no way around the fact that ultimately, this is the City's responsibility. In it's simplest form, TTC is just an organization that runs vehicles and nothing more. As long as those vehicles run on roadways they must follow the rules dictated...

Another BEMU update Dec 3/25............ Slovakia has just ordered 32 Skoda 2-car BEMU trains. Each train has a seated capacity of 157. The first 16 2-car trains will arrive Fall 2026. As far as performance, there is no two ways around it, EMUs are better. They have faster exceleration than...