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Generally, Montreal transit is very reliable. In the more than 4 that I've been here, I've never been affected by a line shutdown (more than a few minutes delay) and even though I constantly complain about how long the wait can be between trains, once I am on one it moves very consistently...

I 100% agree about getting the big 3 to sign on. It's very frustrating that the capacity already exists in the subway for reception and the only reason we can't use it is because of the intransigence of the big 3. But at the same time, when you talk about "how much was spent on installation"...

As if their brutal monopolization of premium parking wasn't reason enough to hate the disabled :mad::mad::mad:

I would be skeptical too, except that the STM has a much better handle on passenger counts than the TTC does. For every leg of my trips in Montreal I need to tap on with my Opus card, and that information is logged automatically and electronically. This ridership data is (sometimes) openly...

Ah, thanks for the correction about terminology, by "cars" I meant "trains." The Azur trains are open-gangway so I don't know how you would split them up exactly, so the distinction wasn't meaningful to me, especially since most of the articles I read about it are in french and say "wagon."...

It worked out well enough in the end for the city of Montreal, since the delays meant that Bombardier had to pay penalties. The city is getting 2 "free" metro cars out of the deal, 54 instead of 52. It would be good if Toronto could get a few extra streetcars out of the delays, they could use...

It'll make it difficult when they want to connect the future Steeles LRT to Line 1 with a Spanish Solution. ;)

In other words... 95% of the work is related to parking expansion.

I agree that Toronto to Montreal would be the best bet, but if we are doing it between two cities in Ontario then Toronto-Ottawa would make more sense than Toronto-Windsor. Ottawa and Toronto are the two largest CMAs in Ontario, and Ottawa is on the way to Montreal so this could be a component...

What about HSR between Toronto and Ottawa? It would go from the Province's capitol to the country's capitol Entirely within Ontario (no cross-province coordination to worry about). Gets you 2/3rds of the way from Toronto to Montreal much faster while the federal/quebec government worries about...

So many options for servicing the airport seem to involve expensive, long detours where there is no existing ROW. Not just with the Kitchener bypass, but I also think of how the Eglinton LRT will jog up to the airport instead of continuing west to the Missisauga Corporate Centre or how the...

If Yonge north is done the same way as the TYSSE, Toronto will pay for the capital costs of the parts of the line within Toronto, absorb cost overruns on the same pro-rated basis, and then pay for operation and maintenance for the entire line, including the part outside of Toronto.

I was driving south on Spadina around 3 AM last Saturday night... traffic was not moving at all between Queen and King because of all the taxis going west on King blocking the intersection. I don't think I've ever been in a traffic jam at that hour. I should have taken a picture to show you guys...

I can't tell if you're being ironic or not. That's a paid front page advertisement from the Conservative party, literally nothing to do with the editorial content. Or do you think that all the car ads and real estate listings are written by journalists there too? And the article that you link...

Okay, then how about Hyundai and the Canada line. Same idea. There is no relationship whatsoever between the degree of automation and the required number of emergency exits, tunnel width, or backup tunnels. That's because the Eglinton crosstown is LRT, not ICTS. There is no pantograph for...

That would have been amazing, given how construction costs back then were so much cheaper. And it's much easier to build the streetcar tunnels when you don't have to mine under an active subway line. But what you are asking for is more expensive and complicated than just building the Queen line...

Especially now with GO fares set at $3 within Toronto, it should show up on the map. The Montreal map at least acknowledges the existence of their commuter rail network, even though it's not any more frequent than the GO network. They even include the commuter rail map below the system map in...

With regards to the Hydrogen-based Rail Network, that makes me think of this prophetic blog post about California's CBOSS signalling system from 10 years ago, where Caltrain decided they were more interested in R&D than in providing passenger train service. It could be modified to apply to GO...

So, I've updated my (admittedly ugly) fantasy map of downtown transit to account for recent-ish developments. Liberty Village GO RER station Spadina South GO RER station Carlaw Alignment of DRL With GO's new liberty village station located on King Street, I think it would be necessary for the...

If you were there a bit earlier you might have seen me ;) As long as there is a single station attendant, there will be lineups. I don't see how it would be any different with Presto, since occasional users still wouldn't have a card and would need to pay somehow, presumably by buying a fare...