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Hamilton — our well known auto-friendly city — is finally doing condo towers with less parking spaces than residents. About to be approved in December, a 700 million dollar redevelopment of City Centre (Jackson Square) as well as the start of LRT construction, is a big starting pistol for the...

I have posted a question for Metrolinx Town Hall. Feel free to vote on this question. To see if Metrolinx will spill more beans about this topic. (In all likelihood, it will be a superior sequel trainset by 2028 -- even BiLevel -- so whatever is available then will be unquestionably superior)

It could be dual mode initially, with battery train by 2035+ I feel that considering electrification for Kitchener at this early a juncture, is evidence that Metrolinx feels confident enough about train solutions -- the combined choices of dualmodes and battery trains. I've been paying...

They do. Look at my diagram. IMHO, This is more evidence they're considering battery train technology. Creating new thread.

As a longtime armchair GO analyst around here (including my well-known GO article from 2015), I have discovered lots of evidence that Metrolinx is now seriously considering battery trains for Kitchener Line. Summary (For Those Unfamiliar With Battery Trains): Battery trains have arrived in...

Electrification beyond the freight electrification limit! "including an environmental assessment (EA) to study electrification of the rail corridor starting from west of Georgetown to Kitchener " ....might Metrolinx found a solution with CN? ....Could it be battery trains? ....Could CN...

I have had a friend who took his life so I can relate -- that said I also believe there's a point where it starts to be >99% as effective as full height. Beyond a specific height, it becomes statistically as good as full height, the lack of grips makes it hard to time a suicide into the front...

Full height doors for all downtown stations, and 5-to-6-foot-height doors for suburban stations. Some ceilings are very high. The very high non-full-height doors are still quite high and extremely difficult to climb quickly successfully on first attempt with lack of good grips, so would still...

One could also use longer streetcars or chain the streetcars into LRT type trains -- this has happened to some former streetcar routes elsewhere in the world. You could hold off double-ended operation except for longer trains. Kind TTC would be a candidate for eventual complete LRT...

With switch from trolleypole to pantograph, you won't need to change carbons daily. But yes, if battery capacity allows allday streetcar life. Realistically you need catenary at the yards and terminuses for the long layovers. Realistically the transition to battery will be transitional...

All? I could easily expect more than half removed someday to simplify the system -- with future battery+catenary LRVs. But the vehicles will almost certainly need to recharge "en motion" to maximize efficiencies. Switching existing catenary to PRIMOVE-style systems would not be something...

This be true. What is TTC's long term plan for trolleypole compatibility? Now that CLRVs are being added to the TTC museum fleet, it does beg the question: Will the catenary remain compatible in 50 years from now? There are changes to catenary that can reduce future trolleypole compatibility...

What's the pantograph conversion status? Once the TTC streetcar network is fully converted to pantographs, what will happen to the museum vehicle fleet? The Peter Witt, etc. Will they be converted to pantographs, or will certain streetcar routes remain permanently trolleypole compatible...

Don't forget daily mudane events like full platforms -- Platform doors contains an overcrowded platform & chops off the passenger flow quicker, so a full train can depart quicker. They behave like insistent elevator doors (inner and outer doors) -- you literally have to clear the way even if...

Hybrid. I believe it will be priced like TTC within 416 with free transfers -- while priced like GO outside 416. It won't be priced triple-tier like UPX. Almost guaranteed. 90% confidence in this prediction by 2029 (or whatever GO Expansion in-service date is for the first electrification...

I would have believed you if you told me it was the Skytrain in the City of Vancouver. But Montreal REM? Wow. Heavens, CDPQi becomes one of the bidders of OL? What a thought! Perhaps we'll see some sudden hectic pace with Ontario Line. 2027 opening date could be realistic with that kind...

The people look like they're walking to a brand new exit that is west of the York West Teamway. Intentional?

Maybe a rail historian could chime in? In the old railroad days, gas heaters were more common, likely due to maturity reasons, electrical heating would have been its infancy. Society used gas in the late 19th century to heat critical urban rail switches and the tech may have been mature by the...

Does the tender specify the height of level boarding? Or includes a provision for an unspecified range of heights all the way from rail level through 48"?

Depends. If Ontario Line is an underground LRT, then Sheppard East can be an LRT that continues onto Ontario Line. Probably not going to be LRT technology, as Ontario Line should have a higher capacity train than that. The Ontario Line and the Sheppard East could share the same train...