Recent content by urbanclient

It's to maintain congruity for the A>B>C calculation steps, Toronto Rockets' weight is only published in 6-car formations. The others only have published 1-car weights. If you have the time to read about the G-1s, you'll find that they were incredibly overweight compared to customer...

Is it too expensive? Would it've been too expensive?

I think the issue is Line 5 Eglinton has FIVE portals.... over not that long of distance. Especially the Science Centre/ Don Valley tunnel section. The leaves flying in is completely unsurprising to me. Six portals if you count the entry into the covered Mount Dennis station. All GIDS...

As I've addressed, that person is Top 1% on r/TTC and has lots of cab POVs of Line 1 (because they are an operator). They have more credibility on what makes Line 1 slow or fast than someone who can't be bothered to read or do basic arithmetic (dozens of threads, versus dozens of people) and...

I think you might be misreading whatever hyperbolic point they're making. Which I don't even fully agree with because I think the Skytrain is great, and its technology family (called Innovia now) has produced half a dozen light to full metro lines around the world. The Skytrain tech did not...

Another day, another Metrostinx story, apparently if GIDs is disabled to prevent unnecessary emergency braking "triggered by leaves and plastic bags ... on windy days", then the tunnel section and/or platform will be restricted to 15 km/h. Yesterday, TTC Chair Myers said 'the issue has been...

To correct my grievous mistake of cherry picking data, can someone help me un-cherry pick the data on Stockholm and Toronto? Help verify these numbers? -------------- Person who kindly points out my mistakes: "Because Stockholm is much much smaller than Toronto, and more dense. Also there are...

----------------- Once again our resident expert on all things in the universe has settled the debate with 0 cited sources... I look at these presumptuous posts and just laugh---> "[The TTC operator is] obvious fake news" et al--->(Anything counter to my views is fake news or gaslighting)...

As much as we all hate or at least dislike Doug Ford's politics, I think it's apt to point out what "Ontario government of the day" means here: "A Globe investigation found that the Ontario government of the day had ignored warnings that its plan to strip control of the construction from the...

Before the Toronto Rocket, the T-1s and H-series on Line 1 were indeed rockets by comparison. Do you not remember? The Toronto Rockets don't even hit 80 km/h, they're capped at 75 km/h... This is what they are referring to. If you opened that link you would see it's from a post from a very...

I agree with both these statements. The GIDS being oversensitive or even literal snowflakes interfering with signals can trigger emergency braking. "If the system is unsure of the train’s exact position, e.g., a balise reader is blocked by debris, then it assumes the worst case scenario and...

--------- I think my slower than scheduled Line 1 / permanent RSZ experience has been vindicated by a former Line 1 operator: https://www.reddit.com/r/TTC/comments/1pmytox/comment/nu5ozxn/

Something something won't anyone think of the unionized jobs, something something driverless metros would've been 'too much' capacity... Slowing down those poor, poor left turning drivers... Toronto could never...

Yes ok you are right. In that case all cars have zero ground clearance. I think they mean the distance between the vehicle body and the ground/trackbed. Track brakes, let alone magnetic track brakes are still comparatively rare, although I have an inkling that adoption is growing for their...

I concur, here is some pro-CDPQ propaganda;) Less consultants, low contingencies, and also: ^Wow what a novel concept... Hear that Metrolinx? Hiring campus-recruit consultants with zero industry experience is not a good idea. Being a part of the ongoing HS2 debacle as a consultant ≠...