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Why not just exit a tunnel on the approach to Union? A train's going to need to slow down anyway, it doesn't seem like you're going to gain a lot of speed by keeping it completely underground at the station.

I think it’s more they’ve slow-walked so long that they can’t absorb any kind of delay.

Giant telecom makes promises to government for sweetheart deal that it has no intention of promptly following through on?! That like, never happens. :/

With the prevalence of single board computers (Raspberry Pis, etc.), ultrawide displays and other technology since their design in the mid 00s, it's quite a bit cheaper on the backend side. Of course, not including dev. From a theoretical standpoint—and assuming open standards and off-the-shelf...

My last two trips to-from Montreal have had a massive delay on the leg, both because we had to take a siding and weight for freight trains. As such, both were delayed longer than an hour. Getting rid of unreliability and delays like this would go just as far, and that means either...

The question is; did they make the SRT lights addressable as well. :/ And as fortuitous as it may be today, WHY would they have done so when building these beasts pre 2010?

Ugh. A breadboard and/or jumpers would be far more difficult to deal with. Especially if the more vandal-prone riders ever caught wind. Honestly though, screens should've been the way to go. Tri-colour LEDs for information of this type on a device built after 2008 seems ridiculous and cheap. It...

As I ride the line many times over the week my perception is that approaching the station is most often where slowdowns happen. Is it also not protocol to slow-roll into a station if there are people standing close to the approach side of the platform? I seem to remember hearing that drivers (or...

It's been used so long and so many times about the GOP that it's getting tiring to say it at this point, but, "the cruelty is the point".

And besides which, it's a moderator's job to police things like that.

If Apple were to come back (I think they will, with a better negotiated lease), I can guarantee it won't be public information until days before opening. After the previous leaks; they'll likely have exercised some NDA pressure on those who bothered to put Apple's name in schematics, etc.

If anyone's looking for a realtime closure/delay/slow-roll map, there's one at TTCmap.ca: https://www.ttcmap.ca/

I'd forgotten about the blinking. That said, I believe they're addressable, meaning each station light can be individually lit.

More based on the assumption the line's getting newer rolling stock, so why would the older stuff ever appear on the line? That said, I wasn't aware that they'd ever run on Line 2. Was there a stated reason for it?

I think they were focused on a much different future, to be honest. Those subway network panels on the Rockets seem to have LEDs embedded for Line 2; a line they'll now probably never, ever run on.

The only “trouble” I see is not knowing the Toronto subway mostly shuts down before the bars do; something I personally learned at 19 and parked at Yorkdale for a concert at The Opera House. I’ll note that’s been the reality for a very long time. Otherwise, getting cut off earlier seems more...

Personally, investment in private companies for retirement savings truly serves corporations and not the people. Just ask anyone who had Nortel in their retirement portfolio. PPPs are a shell game scam. Build them the same way governments everywhere have built them; taxation, bonds, or eminent...

They’re like the corporate embodiment of Doug ford himself. Opaque, mistake-prone and stubborn as all hell.

Don’t make assumptions. We should have both a national railway and HSR; they’re not mutually exclusive, and the combination of both shown many places throughout the world to be beneficial, effective and sustainable. Perhaps I’m just not fond of being one of the richest countries in the world...

You mean the cadre of regional monopolies? That's generally not what's considered open-market privatization here. Or are you referring to JR Rail, where only profitable regions were privatized, leaving JR Hokkaido, JR Shikoku and JR Freight under the control of the government. Planning and...