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I hope Calgary's new 48 km Green Line LRT which will also use low-floor trains doesn't have the same problems. I don't think they will as Calgary has a habit of doing things right the first time and often ahead of schedule and on budget. Calgary transit doesn't get the respect that its due and...

There is one really good thing about the delays. When it does finally open Torontonians will be blessed with the slowest, lowest capacity, highest operation cost, most unreliable, and most disruptive mass transit rail system possible. Small wonder Verster won't commit to an opening date. When...

VIA is as much a political apparatus as it is a passenger rail service. Only in Canada would you be able to take the train from Prince George to Prince Rupert but not from Edmonton to Calgary.

Being able to use your debit card is convenient but will is stop being deducted as soon as you hit the monthly pass rate?

I'm not going to rewrite this but note that I wrote this comment more than 2 months ago when QP, TTC, and GO had 6 months to present and implement fare integration by the end of the year. Now they have less than 4 months. Any news on the fare integration front?

Nice to see a new development but at this point it's lipstick on a pig. How can you have downtown revitalization when you have already completely destroyed your downtown? This is a travesty. Brantford never had a really vibrant core in the last 50 years but due to being an older city it had some...

Good news on the London-St.Thomas transit front! The Mayor of ST and London are working very quickly on bringing in transit between the 2 cities and the ST Mayor want it to be up and running by winter of this year. Amazon has been working with them as clearly they are having a harder time than...

No kidding. Dallas actually has the largest rapid transit LRT system in NA but a long shot at about 150 km but the ridership levels are low and the service frequency is horrid. Edmonton which has 1/5th the population of DFW and a system that is only 25 km long has 20% higher ridership.

Thanks for the reply and link Northern Light. Those are indeed far more attractive and add to the urban experience as iopposed to detracting from it. That should be the standard used city wide on roadways. Yonge & Bloor Streets would be a good place to start. I'm glad I'm not the only one who...

The only problem I have with separated bike lanes along roadways is that the majority of them are so damn ugly. Yes, you have some that are very pleasant where the lanes have nice grassing and flowers & trees separating the cars from bikes but these are VERY few and far between. The vast...

That is certainly the preferred option and I'm sure they will be phased in as the bi-levels reach the end of their lifecycle but to do it straight away would mean there are hundreds of bi-levels not being used and ML would end up selling them for pennies on the dollar.

Personally I don't think all the cars on the train must be ADA compliant and raising the platforms may work for bi-levels butt what happens if they start using EMUs? I think what they should do is do with the Paris RER system is implementing. Their fleet is mostly bi-level but they now have...

If VIA won't provide the service then someone else will.

I just assumed they were going to convert the existing locos over to electric and buy new electric ones as demand requires. BTW...........2028 seems late as I thought the RER electrification system was suppose to be up and running by 2026?

Vancouver used SkyTrain technology due to being strong armed by Bourassa/Bombardier and it was opening for Expo 86 who's primary focus was on transportation.............BUT, it was also due to the Dunsmuir Tunnel. Standard subway cars were to big to fit in the tunnel and even thinner ones would...

When is ML going to start converting some of these loco over to electric?

I thought King was made permanent?

REM and GO both offer new ways to get downtown and across their respective regions in a vastly more cost effective way than building Metro/subway to the hinterlands ie Vancouver. That said, both made the right choice in their respective technologies and service. Toronto didn't have a Mount...

Congratulations Montreal! It's quite interesting that Pierre was at the opening of the Montreal Metro and his son who became PM was at the opening of REM. Maybe they will continue the trend and Justin's son will become PM and could be at the opening of Eglinton.

I think it's inevitable that Eglinton will have to be split into 2 lines with the subway starting at OSC going west and the glorified streetcar going east. They couldn't have been more short sighted on Eglinton if they tried and it's 100% Miller's fault.