Recent content by WB62

They do clear the snow during the day with shovels or snow blowers, and push it onto the tracks too, I saw both happening at multiple stations last Sunday.

If you somehow segregate GO passengers to only the Bay/York/Bremner Concourses you’d have to remove dozens of platform entrances in the middle of the station, which would overload the GO concourses as mentioned above. The reconfiguration could end up being much different from my concept which...

In my message above I said ignoring the lineups. The concourse still is too small for more than a couple hundred people at once, and way more than a hundred people will be passing through this space at any point in the future. If ALTO does use this concourse, it could see at least 6 trainloads...

I’m personally still a strong believer that the VIA Concourse couldn’t be used for ALTO service no matter where the platforms are, even with a modern boarding process there’s gonna be too many passengers who need to pass through the space. Factoring out lineups, the concourse is almost at full...

Couple observations around Union I noticed today: The new metal framing I asked about a few weeks ago was for improved gates to the smaller market stalls, no more ugly yellow fencing! The unoccupied retail unit between the security office and the convenience store in the Front Street...

So who does maintenance and inspects this pole? I assume someone has to every so often Anything that involves a car is just going to make the city put a hundred more jersey barriers up, I propose one of these:

I think their wording for the western option does suggest something like the UP Express terminal, I assume if this option is chosen it would just be considered an expansion of Union. I’m not sure how having a station near the CN Tower/stadium would lengthen travel time enough to make it...

ALTO needs to be able to pass through Downtown Toronto to get to the yard, which happens to be where the GO/VIA yards are. This is the most defined, clearest rail right of way on the map, so to me this makes me assume the decision to have a yard here is final, and the ALTO route has to work...

https://en.consultation.altotrain.ca/reinventing-travel-between-toronto-and-quebec-city The ALTO website now has information about the Toronto station location: According to an unverified source (which can be found in a post I made in the ALTO thread yesterday), the eastern site is supposedly...

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/michaelschabas_conceptual-design-and-business-case-for-activity-7416632312395857920-0abD There are some pretty interesting items this author managed to find, including the assumed Cadence proposal: How cadence potentially suggested operating regional service...

This likely isnt the plan you’re referring to as it was created way past the RER days, but I’m going to throw this out there anyway because it also has more ambitious service levels to Mount Pleasant than the project mission from 2025:

Swung by the park last night. The park itself looks close to complete, the lower floors of the building not so much: Cafe and lookout building:

Except the PDF schedule and the website has all 4 KI departures, so where are they pulling the 3 trips are cancelled info from?

This KI weekend service discrepancy continues to grow! Earlier today the GO Transit social media account was responding to a customers questions with wrong information, saying 3 of 4 weekend trips were cancelled: I asked for clarification in a separate post and got an entirely different...

I think this is the first time I’ve ever seen a render depict something during a rainstorm, interesting choice to make