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LOL. There may be people out there who may be willing to bend their NDA a little. You won't be able to divulge the data, but at least you will know, and it's a lot less frustrating that the FOI route....but may cost you some beer money. It's a shame to have to deal with ML this way, but you do...

You are taking a valid point and stretching it a bit hyperbolically. Let's imagine that the government changes, and the new government has no interest or money to build HxAnything. I would definitely expect CN to go to VIA/Ottawa and say, "Look, we've been really patient with you for a decade...

One has to contrast ML's approach to transparency on ridership data to TTC's Ridership disclosure approach. ML does have all sorts of readily available, competently prepared, appropriately granular tabulations of their ridership data, at the monthly or better level. I have been shown examples...

(Ritual rant about ML's activity reports not being a proper form of Board oversight over scope control, work completion against schedule and target completion date, or cost performance - please take as read) Two very interesting tidbits in this report - Classic example of ML speak with lots...

France did that after they built TGV. Doing that today in Canada would simply be punitive, and create needless backlash. Down the road, certainly, but not now. - Paul

The length thing is certainly a valid observation, but I’m not sure that Europe can or should imitate the North American model of extra long trains. Making them longer than passenger trains, sure, but the optimal length may be much shorter than in this country. The European system has the...

ML is struggling from a politically imposed mandate to move as much work as possible to contracted companies because a) the system is big enough that a fully in-house organization would be a monolith, and nobody likes huge government run organizations b) the private sector lobbies to take on the...

That would be a nice problem to have. Consider that it will take a decade or more to implement level boarding, if ever. That’s a third if the career span of existing operating staff. If that were ever to happen, the natural attrition of retirements of today’s operators would deal with most of...

LOL As a matter of fact, I have been there and they were in the middle of a rail commuter expansion project that people there said was taking forever. Not much of a town - the tour of Harold Ballard's house was interesting, but too many Bruins and Ticats fans to feel at home. - Paul

i have to think that the silence is in part attributable to potential legal action. The contract to build the station (which was never part of the tbm contract - the tbm tunnelling drive from Brentcliffe ended east of Yonge and the station was built by excavation and underpinning) assumed a set...

Traditionally railways worked on standard time year round, to the extreme where timetables were printed in standard time and there were two clocks in depots, one showing railroad time and the other showing “city time”. That changed I believe in the late 1960’s There are fairly careful...

It's likely one of those rules that was "written in blood". I don't know the specific situation(s) that led to this rule, but it removes ambiguity inherent in using 00:00 or 24:00 I'm sure the computer programmers liked not having an hour value that spans two days. So many operational things...

We have to be a little more granular and focussed about why project costs go up. On one level, there is the added cost that is created by taking a route that ought to be a straight line and distorting it to align to, or avoid, powerful interests. Cal HSR is certainly a case study of this. The...

Perhaps, but what should happen is that a qualified and independent third party creates an objective and non-partisan design for the transit infrastructure, using valid data and using generally agreed to decision criteria and methods....and then some reasonable consensus is reached between...

I find it interesting how the California experience is being described (just about everywhere) as a failure. I see it as a resounding success, in the sense that somebody actually is driving a HSR line to the finish line in North America (for all its detractors, California is too far along to be...

LOL The irony in that is - in railway space, there is no midnight. CROR Rule 1 states that time goes directly from 23:59 to 00:01 with midnight falling in either one. I know, I am taking this out of context.... it's just an amusing bit of trivia. - Paul

The likely scenario would be trains short-turning at a signalled crossover, possibly using the tail tracks where these exist. But service would halt in whatever section is blocked by the accident recovery and investigation. It is unlikely that TTC would attempt "single track" operation in the...

In this case, there was a Lakeshore transportation study that considered extending some form of LRT west from Long Branch to Port Credit. That extension would serve the area and the proposed development much better than re-spacing GO stops, creating local connectivity as well as Regional...

At least, the article is clear enough that there was a Statement of Claim (which the Globe Reporter must have a copy of, as they quote from it) and it was filed in the Federal Court of Canada. That route does seem odd, as one would think that the CTA or Transport Canada, rather than the court...

There are a couple of things to note here, before moving to the North Toronto line thread 1) The North Toronto corridor west of Mount Pleasant is most certainly wide enough to house both a 2ish track CP freight line and a 2ish track transit corridor (be it conventional GO heavy rail pax, or...