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OL Contract has Canadian Content requirements, so final assembly will require setting up a local facility.

Not rip up, add.

This is one of the options, but there is a more recent option with the keyhole entrance.

It's a hallmark of a bad politician to die on hills. Given the diversity of opinions and the things that are within your control, it's always about compromise. Recently, there has been a lot more hyper partisan politics, and generally they don't play out well. I haven't heard about the masses...

I would add that the lack of transit vehicle manufacturers in North America has to do with the lack of transit attitude in North America. Large procurements every 30 years are not financially viable, but with constant expansion and staggered replacements medium sized orders every couple years...

There seems to be concerns with running platform canopies over OCS. But I agree that the canopy could go over the tracks to allow for covered boarding. I was referring specifically to the sidewalls of the shelters, and how they correlate with platform size.

The biggest challenges with shelters is space. With modern clearway width requirements to accommodate mobility devices, a wider platform is required for more substantial shelters. Now it is a matter of deciding what the priority is in allocating road space, but it is very unlikely to be a...

I think this point does not recognize that driving has far more negative externalities than passengers riding a train. We must consider that when we do the calculations, and in that case, auto drivers often do not cover the operational costs of what they use.

I am not a TTC employee. I'm not sure where that was implied. But typically there is no reason for this information to be available to the public.

These things are not published, so if you don't believe sources, then you may be out of luck in finding an official statement.

This is an unfair comparison, it's a legacy thing in this case.

They do not. There are additional safety protocols that exist for rail vehicles (that you will see on the LRT lines (when they open)) in Toronto just due to physics, which don't exist in bus operations. However, this is not to say that the TTC's streetcar safety protocols are not disappointing.

I'll add here that 100% low floor buses have been a European standard for decades. So, I'd be curious to see any North American companies (of which their European subsidiaries and parents) manufacture 100% low floor buses and their reasoning for not doing so here.

This is a rather strange argument on equity. Toronto contributed to 50% of Ontario's GDP and 20% of Canada's GDP, whatever investments we see don't nearly account for equitable treatment. There's a reason why we have a housing shortage and an affordability crisis (besides structural factors)...

Agree mostly, except for the light at Clarence square that is an important component of the Wellington Street Cycle Track and a midblock crossing. Though, that light could be better timed to stop drivers when the following segment is not clear though. I would also say that Nassau is not the...

Thanks for posting this video, I've always felt this way about the doors, but never had a direct comparison.

From the official document, the Province will be taking complete ownership of it once the audit is complete and has agreed to pay O&M for 2024 and 2025.

The budget is a much larger issue to a larger group of people overall. Funding for new trains on Line 2 will help to prevent disasters like what happened to Line 3. And while the City loses control of what to do with the Gardiner and DVP, it gains the ability to do far more with the money that...

No, you would know if they stopped at every switch if you rode the subway. The streetcar maintenance program has always struggled more than the subway. No one here is arguing that it's a rationale policy, but it certainly is safe and easy to apply as a blanket policies when there's no...

Light metro is a reference mostly to capacity. However, in the case of OL, the design has evolved from the initial marketing. MX shouldn't be using that term anymore, it really confuses people.