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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Yeah as others have noted, they don't need to charge for parking all the time since there's plenty of spare parking capacity on evenings and weekends. In effect it would be a form of peak-period pricing for people who insist on driving to the station, where their off-peak trips are cheaper than...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Yes, but even if they align the new east-end switch to match the one they just built at the west end of the second track, that would make the thru route the north track, which is the track where the Breslau Station platform will be located. Meanwhile the station bypass track would be the one...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I don't understand what this comment has to do with my comment
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    What! Next thing you'll be telling us that running a single trip at 5AM from London to Kitchener on dilapidated tracks for two years around a Provincial election was for political purposes too!
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Yes, once there are other passing tracks in service to enable a bidirectional service pattern this segment will certainly be useful. But the question I was answering was "what is the utility of the Breslau passing track the meantime until those other segements are brought into service". I...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    All of those things sound like they're due to the related signal upgrades, not the passing track itself.
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    Like Paul alluded to above, the siding is not very useful on its own. The next passing location to the east is beyond Georgetown, nearly an hour away. So the most service it theoretically enables would be to improve the off-peak headway west of Mt Pleasant to 2 hours instead of 3 hours, but that...
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    VIA Rail

    That's true, so I'm working on assembling actual data using the GPS traces fo Via trains that are publicly online. In the meantime I'll also share my anecdotal experience from frequent travel between Toronto and Ottawa that Metrolinx generally causes far more minutes of delay per kilometre than CN.
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    The time saving for peak-period trains will be 10 minutes per trip, not 20, as I have documented here. Metrolinx is advertising "20 minutes saved on your commute" because they're adding both directions together, which is a typical way that they make their statistics misleading. Still, a 10 min...
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    Great Platform Height Debate: Subway-Style Level Boarding for GO Trains

    Yeah an adjustable step is pretty much the only way of transitioning from status quo to level boarding without shutting down a line for months, though I'm not sure if CalTrain's is actually capable of level boarding considering their level boarding platforms are planned to be at 50" (hence the...
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    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    The limit east of Hamilton is 65 mph, maybe that's what it would revert to with the 30 mph restriction lifted. It would be great either way, it's brutal to crawl at 45 km/h all the way across Hamilton.
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Me: "The Milton line has fewer all-day trip generators than the Kitchener or LSW lines" Them: "So you hate the Milton line?!"
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    Roads: Traffic Signals

    Well the nice thing in that case is that the icon is a green circle meaning "permission" as per the MUTCD signage principles that Canada follows. So it's logically saying "you are permitted to walk your bike", to which my response is "okay cool, I'm not going to do that". This is confirmed by...
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    Roads: Traffic Signals

    Yeah I ignore it too when cycling, but it's problematic that our roadway designs/operations are training people to disregard traffic laws.
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    Roads: Traffic Signals

    Which reminds me of another problem: When they put in a bike box, they (correctly) install No Right Turn on Red signs, but they often forget to add "Bicycles Excepted" tabs. So apparently bikes aren't allowed to turn right on red from a bike lane to another bike lane because there might be...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I don't doubt that. The question is whether it's overcrowded with 12-car trains because that was the situation before the pandemic.
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    Roads: Traffic Signals

    I live in Ottawa and although I like the leading thru intervals in theory, they don't seem to work in practice. Drivers just turn during the thru arrow just as they would on a green ball. However in Québec drivers do seem to recognize the thru arrow, and wait for it to end before turning. Maybe...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    You seem to be missing the point. Housing is not a destination. It's an origin. I'm talking about the distribution of destinations. Downtown Missisauga (Square One) would be a destination, but the Milton Line literally doesn't go there. There are fewer trains than in 2019 and each individual...
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    Roads: Traffic Signals

    The City's standard LPI duration is actually 5 seconds, so it's even worse than that. "Unnecessary idling" is a red herring that is only really used as an argument by people who want to shoehorn car traffic into places it doesn't belong. In reality the negligible impact of longer idling times...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Empirically one would expect Milton to lag behind Lakeshore W and Kitchener in ridership recovery even if service frequencies were equal. We know that generally peak period commuter ridership to downtown is much lower than in 2019 but off-peak ridership across the region is higher. The land use...

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