Recent content by Steve X

At this point, I would like to see Ford would extend his power over reach and revoke traffic management over rapid transit corridors to get TSP running. At the same time, he'll have to mandate TTC to meet certain operating speed criteria or revoke TTC's operating rights as blench of contract to...

AFAIK trains were running in the afternoon snowstorm but nothing was seen at 9pm in the evening. So they must have stopped in between that time.

It seems like all the Flexitys in this city are running if people don’t block the tracks. Yes, they do run on line 5. The problems have something to do with this line more than the weather.

They were running normally today in this freezing weather. So there’s more hope unlike Finch which is having issues everyday.

The Finch West LRT was to extend to Don Mills Station to meet line 4 and the Sheppard East LRT too.

It does mean more time to remove more panels before performing any maintenance work .

I actually don't know why everyone thinks 2035 is way beyond their useful life. It's not. The trains are designed for 30 years life with the last of the batch entering service around 2001. This would only make the last trains 34 years old to retire in 2035. In contrast, the H4 and H5s retired...

The electronics and software might be different but similar mechanical systems would ease maintenance and training to maintain them. The TRs were designed for line 1 to improve capacity however their coupled designed makes it very difficult to maintain at Greenwood yard so these new trains are...

To be fair, the construction cost included the yard and maintenance/backup operation building (which probably cost around 200-300m), the two "subway" stations at each terminal, the grade separated turn at Finch/Highway 27 and likely vehicles would be included too. The VIVA rapidway figures would...

The cost you see is the capital cost of those rapidways don't include purchasing two sets of buses (one set will not last 30 years), the maintenance of the buses, nor the maintenance of the rapidway itself for 30 years. Since we don't know what the actual capital cost was for Finch nor do we...

The viva rapid ways took a long time to build too, they had to widen the roadway, relocate utilities and everything except track installation. It wasn’t exactly cheap either so I don’t recommend doing that either.

The junction between the yard and the mainline is located just east of Mount Dennis Station which is exposed to the weather. Trains need to enter service so those switches would move around quite a bit. Also the crossover into Mount Dennis Station is located at this junction which is also...

It’s not as great as you might think. Yes it fills in the void but this is not likely the ridership’s travel pattern so telling them to wait 15-20 min for some of these routes so they can hop off a few stops later to connect to line 6 isn’t going to win any prizes. Plus the most vulnerable are...

You have lines like the 507 which often has one person getting on/off at every stop in Etobicoke. It seems more like the streetcars spend more time waiting for doors than actually moving. So yes, it's time to get rid of some stops. This goes for routes using longer vehicles to carry more people...

Well Ottawa was still affected by the snowstorm at 5pm as the system moves east so 18cm is not likely their total