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'Schedule adjustments' beyond Agincourt implies temporary speed restrictions between Agincourt and Kennedy, which is where the nearly-complete second track is. Given the speed restriction only lasts one week, its safe to assume that it's due to new or relocated track that needs to settle before...

Red Arrow is ending its experiment in Ontario. A few months ago, Pacific Western (operator of Red Arrow) was acquired by Keolis (operator of Orléans Express), and they are now transfering the Ontario routes to the Orléans Express brand. From the June Motorcoach Newsletter (published by Pacific...

The Nederlands Transport Museum went out of business so the ex- Ontario Northland Trans-Europ Express trainset was recently moved from the NTM in North Holland to a site in Leek, Groningen. Here it is being loaded onto a truck: Passing through a roundabout:

Well my question wasn't really "is this the most important issue for Via right now" it was just "would it be a good idea". I'm certainly not going to be pestering Via to demand that the stop be moved, I'm just discussing the idea on an internet forum out of interest. I'm not convinced that...

The same is true with Aldershot. So that has no influence on whether trains should stop at Aldershot or West Harbour. So that eliminates a potential advantage that Aldershot could have over West Harbour. Whether or people are going to Niagara Falls or New York makes no difference. Either way...

I don't take the ignore button lightly. I have only added a handful of exceptionally counterproductive people who repeatedly demonstrated that they have no intention or perhaps no ability to have an intelligent discussion. In the case of those people, seeing their posts only causes me annoyance...

The stop at Aldershot is not an unchangeable law of the universe. Train 82 currently skips Aldershot, so it's not unreasonable to ask whether trains 97 and 98 could skip Aldershot as well. The question therefore becomes whether West Harbour is a more useful stop than Aldershot. Like you said...

It shocks me how many of you are still able to see posts from people who have consistently demonstrated that they are incapable of internalizing any information or having an intelligent discussion. The ignore function is very useful for those kinds of posters.

Ah okay. My impression from riding the trains is that it takes most of the distance between stations to reach the target speed, but maybe that's perception bias. I didn't realize they were supposed to be in notch 8, they don't seem like they're accelerating at full power when they're on time...

The challenge with GO Expansion is that everything is dependant on everything else. So even if they're just the train operating company, DB's staffing and scheduling assumptions depend on the infrastructure. For example, the number of staff they need for a given frequency is strongly affected...

Yes I know that F59s are rated to 10 cars, and MP40s are rated to 12. I even mentioned the latter in my post. That list is merely indicating what the preference seems to be, given that F59s are generally only used on 6-car trains now. Evidently I overestimated the percentage of 12-car trains...

For this reason I think that as GO moves towards shorter, more frequent trains, they should be increasing their standards for traction vs train length. Currently based on observations they seem to have the following minimum power guidelines: 6-car: 3000 hp (e.g. 1x F59) 10-car: 4000 hp (e.g. 1x...

These Ontario voters?

I think the sources seem to consistently indicate that DB wasn't very good at handling Metrolinx's resistance to change. However, given that the contract that they were offered by Metrolinx was explicitly for the purpose of making drastic changes to the network, DB could reasonably have assumed...

According to the City of Toronto Traffic Signals Operating Policies, the minimum duration for any green is 6 seconds for a turning phase, or less than 7 seconds for a thru phase. There is absolutely no way you saw a 2-second green light. If any interval violates a requirement (e.g. less than the...

Raised platforms don't eliminate the need to deploy the ramp, they just enable the short ramp to be deployed instead of the long ramp. Our current streetcars are not capable of maintaining a constant ride height so it is impossible to build level-boarding platforms for them.

The full built-out design is for 4 tracks: 2 GO tracks on the south side with an island platform, and 2 CN tracks on the north side. On opening day there won't be 4 tracks, probably just 2 or 3. Not sure which tracks will be installed. I think installing a 3rd track (south side of the island...

It's not to do with the type of infrastructure, it's to do with change. If you add a bike lane, businesses complain. If you remove a bike lane, businesses complain. https://toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/10/24/annex-businesses-tell-ford-to-back-off-bloor-bike-lanes/ In the end, planners and...

The question of line management is a red herring because rationalizing stop spacing in no way hinders efforts to improve line management. Planners and engineers aren't the ones who would be disciplining operators, any more than the supervisors would be designing stops. One effort does not take...

The TTC has been trying to remove closely-spaced stops for over a decade but their efforts keep getting stopped by local councillors. We have an entire Urban Toronto thread on this topic. Here's a table I posted there, where I highlighted 28 streetcar stops that the TTC has removed since 2014.