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The original modern light rail systems (Calgary, Edmonton, San Diego) are based on the German model of fast high-floor tram implemented in cities like Köln, Essen, Frankfurt, etc. Those systems are known in German as Stadtbahn, which is a brand new term they invented to name those systems.

Oops. Fixed. I was thinking of Port Union.

I've been thinking along the same lines as you, though my thinking is that we can redirect parking demand by having different rates for different stations. Stations in urban growth centres like downtown Brampton or downtown Kitchener should have very expensive parking (if any at all) while...

I never said anything about reviving the service. I just shared an interesting and little-known piece of histor

Via Rail timetable, June 1982: from @Urban Sky 's Via timetable archive

This is not true. CN running does not prevent Metrolinx from implementing ETCS. Metrolinx clearly stated in the ETCS backgrounders that they will have lineside signals for use by CN trains. If you're going to make things up, please preface the statements with "my guess is that..." or something...

Potentially. Allowing the train to lay over in Niagara Falls avoids two deadhead movements across the Welland canal, which could help negotiations for more in-service crossings instead. It also increases the overnight storage capacity on the Niagara branch from 4 trains to 5, which could allow...

Yeah my primary complaint about Metrolinx is not that they took a long time to build the connection (we know that CN is also a limiting factor so some of the delay was out of Metrolinx's control). My complaint is that Metrolinx was lying about construction on the connection. They claimed in...

Finally they're doing the infrastructure work at West Harbour that Metrolinx claimed they were doing in this video I filmed on the 29th of March 2019:

Also they claim that it's part of their work to bring service "every 15 minutes or better"? Clearly the existing infrastructure on Lakeshore West can already support 15-minute or better service given that we currently have 15-minute service on weekends and in 2021 we had 15-minute or better...

As others have mentioned, I think the best candidate for tram trains in Ontario is Waterloo-Wellington:

Building only a single platform in the first phase made sense way back in the early 2010's when the station was originally designed, but now that construction has been delayed it seems that the station would open around the same time as the double track anyway. Failing to include the second...

Since when do Metrolinx promises mean anything?

But returning three tracks into service would make shifting the tracks for Ontario Line construction much harder. Having only two tracks in service in the future 6-track corridor gives them more room to have a buffer between the construction zone and the active tracks. So I would assume that...

Grading work for the second track has been completed in the vicinity of Downsview Park station, but it is positioned in a way that makes it unusable. The station is designed for 3 tracks with two side platforms, so in the interim 2-track configuration there needs to be a gap between the...

They don't need to. The existing express track between Danforth and Guildwood is long enough for an express train to overtake a local already.

The speed limit on the southern part of the Richmond Hill line is 35 mph (56 km/h) not 40 km/h.

The cost that VIA incurs is the opportunity cost of people not getting the best ratio of service to price, which could result in marginally lower revenue. Different seats have different value to different passengers, so efficiently allocating resources to match rider preferences will maximize...

The point is not to compare like for like, the point is to look for examples of better railway management and consider whether we should reform our railway management in a similar way. I'd agree that the U.S. is not a great place to look since they do still have a lot of tribalism like we do...

I doubt that using the operating model common in other countries - where the public rail owner gives equal access to all passenger rail operators - would decimate morale, cost people their jobs and end the ability to run reliable service. Somehow every EU country managed to implement impartial...