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We are talking about electrifying hundreds of kilometers of track in a country that has done zero mainline rail electrification in decades? Why would we put up poles until the last moment, one of the few benefits of our current situation without electrification infra is that corridors have few...

GO Trains do not need to and generally are not frequently mixing with freights in the USRC, and eventually that will be the case across most of the network. The post you quoted also quite literally refers to having better single level trains. There is no reason that we need to have 4-5 minute...

Tbf, I was curious and Coaster runs Chargers with Bilevels already - yes Siemens has a ton of orders but that might mean more ability to scale production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaster_%28commuter_rail%29#/media/File:COASTER_Trainset_at_Cardiff-by-the-Sea.jpg

I think people need to stop with the Hyperbole about cities not having elevated rail etc. Eglinton has some elevated sections, the OL will too including through some pretty affluent areas (embankment adjacent to GO). The idea that Mississauga could NOT get anything better than a tram seems...

This is the type of study that should make people skeptical of our studies - this is nuts! - platforms maxxing out at 8 tph?!?!?!?! Assuming we rebuild the platforms to reasonable width you can easily do >10 tph per direction per track, get single level trains with more doors and you can go much...

The capacity is the product of length and width . . . and these are trams not metro trains which have far less useable interior space as we all know, plus less doors.

This should be the standard for any future upgrades, canopies, accessibility and prepared for level boarding retro, but no giant parkade. It looks sharp and just as good if not better that the typical regional station in Europe

LA has had tons of problems with them

Very common practice, with tunneling you are going in blind (even with drilling to test soil you can get unexpected stuff) so they stagger so they can more easily do the second tunnel. Its not uncommon to do a "pilot" tunnel on larger projects as was seen on the chunnel and Metro Construciton in...

It is an issue, but worth considering the more comfortable and newer trains on the Ontario Line plus the faster trip to many destinations (i.e. east of Yonge) will be attractive. Should be tons of escalators.

4 tracks to turn 4 tph seems pretty excessive, 3 should be plenty?

Anyone know why the Dupont Elevator is now being ripped apart again?

It shouldn't thanks to alt compliance

610mm

I think its worth considering that even Downtown Toronto is not Euro levels of ped, cycle, transit friendliness . . . . the suburbs are a different world and suggesting a 512 St. Clair style service was what they needed has always seemed questionable. Why is having different levels of service...

Well . . . whenever someone says to me that the TTC "lacks" funds I like to remind people how insane the costs for projects are. Bloor Yonge rebuild is way over a billion dollars, and very dense intersection or not that number is crazy! The amount of funds are not as much an issue as the...

You're both right but the utlimate point here might be that Paris (and many other cities actually) have retrofitted PSDs and managed to train their respective staff etc. mostly without issue over 10 years ago. Toronto can do the same.

Don't think they have enough trains for 3 cars in revenue service - they are just testing

Given we pay multiples for subway compared to places like Spain I am not so convinced, especially since we are spending 10s of billions on subway. Just getting to a more reasonable design standard or interpretation of requirements could literally save billions of dollars. Yeah, but PSDs are...

New York is not a good example for modern transit planning. Even though the speeds will quite likely not be all that. different in many places.