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I'm there next week. I'll let you know.

Is this what you're looking for? http://www2.ttc.ca/html/frameset.htm Click on "Current Tenders" on the left and it's the fourth one down. You get more information clicking the tender number rather than the text. Hope that helps.

I'd imagine so. Boeing and Airbus do the painting at the time of final assembly. Granted, Boeing and Airbus are much larger than the Bombardier operation at Downview but I'd be surprised if Bombardier didn't have a painting bay.

I'm trying to figure out the plan for these trains in regard to the movement of rolling stock. I know the initial goal as the TRs come online will be to replace the H-4s on the B-D Line with T-1s coming from the Yonge-University Line. Will the T-1s also replace any of the H-6s on the B-D Line...

I've seen that plane landing at Downsview as well. I imagine they must use it for testing new technologies for the Q400. So, chances are you'll see it again. As an aside, I saw a Porter Dash 8 landing at Downsview the other day. So, unless it was an older plane being ferried into the...

Those maps were done a few years ago, before the Canada Line was finished. That's why it's not represented. I'd say another metric for success is not just the size of the network or ridership, but the density (which generally is both a cause and effect of ridership). For instance, look at...

Not sure. Most of the routes within Ontario are either already served by Porter, do better on RJs, or will probably see Dash 8s once Jazz takes delivery of the Q400s they have on order (Toronto-Thunder Bay comes to mind). The routes that aren't served by Porter might not need that much capacity...

I admit most of the evidence is anecdotal from another, aviation-centered forum, that includes Porter insiders. So, take my opinion with a grain of salt. The fact that Porter is a private company means that very little is known with any certainty. Their failed IPO last year did give some...

Chances are, however, as the Continental/United merger progresses, the Cleveland hub will be pulled down. There's no real need for it with hubs in Chicago, Newark and Washington-Dulles. So I imagine that once routes start getting cut from Cleveland, they'll reallocate those aircraft to other...

I imagine Continental is waiting to see where some of the chips may fall with regard to its merger with United. Maybe we'll see something like a 5/3 or a 6/2 split between Newark and Chicago-O'Hare. My reasoning for this is with the impending merger between Continental and United, and United and...

Porter's 70-seat planes might be a bit much for Ottawa-Thunder Bay, especially compared to Jazz's 50-seat CRJs (which I'm assuming its being dropped for not being filled). That said, a Dash-8 is more economical than a CRJ at $100/barrel oil, so maybe.

This could tie in nicely with the thread about renaming the YUS line. Maybe it's time to drop the 'Spadina' bit since the computer can't say it right. *stirs pot*

Has the second train arrived? I was going by the other day and could have sworn I saw the cars numbered 5401, etc. It also didn't have any of the testing gear strapped to the exterior. With talk of the first train having to go back to Kingston, I assume the problems were identified before the...

Yes, but that's because the woman who was assigned/volunteered (not hired, since she's already a TTC employee) to do the subway announcements - the woman who did the streetcar and bus announcements was on maternity leave - is over-annunciating. I understand the idea is to have clear...

My neighbours bought a scooter and I know one of them was trying to get his licensing done ASAP since he knew he wasn't going to be out on it during the winter. That's not to say it's impossible to ride a scooter in the winter, but, particularly with the cold one we're having this year, I have...

Not to take this thread further off-track (no pun intended) but there's no need/use for a GO-style system, at the moment, in Ottawa. Least of all on trains. A) The geographic boundaries of Ottawa are so artificially large that largely with the exception of Gatineau, almost all the regional...

Yes. In fact, American, British Airways and Iberia have a joint-venture agreement so, in effect, they operate as one entity (including profit/loss sharing) across the Atlantic. In fact, the lighted signage has BA's and Iberia's logos on them. It's just interesting given that AA has quite a...

To give some of you an idea of what's being discussed, here's a 2 min. short of what American Airlines did to some subway cars in New York. Interestingly, some of the cities presented are not American Airlines destinations. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeZMOyqTf_E To be fair, some of you...

The one train has been sitting at Wilson for over a week now. It hasn't even been moved as evidenced by the increasing amount of snow collecting on its roof (at least as of Monday evening at around 4:30p). As far as I can tell, they are doing stuff with it but the brief view I get from the...

The MBTA in Boston had some teething problems with their Bombardier-built trains (Red Line 1800-series). That said, I seem to recall the problem being with the traction motor - but I could be wrong about that. So, I'm not sure that can be pinned on Bombardier but I know they weren't happy with...