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What is the frequency of the high speed line? Because if it's less than 4 trains per hour, Metrolinx's planned configuration is already enough for both GO and Alto. The original GO Expansion plans were calling for 8+ trains per hour on Stouffville but now the plans have been cut back to 4. So...

Yes I have explained that in detail several times before. The station at Lawrence East is irrelevant to reason I'm sharing the diagram. I doubt that station would ever get built anyway since they're now building a subway station further east along Lawrence.

I believe the Kennedy routing is superior to the Leaside routing, because in addition to being far cheaper to build it provides vastly better connectivity. The Toronto suburban station in the Leaside routing option is a station a short walk east of Sunnybrook Park station on Line 5. It has...

I'll take "GO Transit construction" for $100 please. What is "Caledonia station on the Barrie line"?

Maybe Alto is part of the reason they're in no hurry to get the Highland Creek bridge unstuck, given that that's the location where Alto would be joining the corridor. But I don't think Alto can be an excuse to delay the other projects in the pipeline. The Mount Joy second platform is necessary...

It's not a done deal because: - If we don't criticize what went wrong in the project planning process they will keep making the same mistakes in future projects - Many of those things can still be fixed by additional investment. Like you said, the Line 2 upgrade was fairly cheap by Canadian...

Agreed. I think it would be a great fit for services like the Bramalea-Unionville local service. The North-American variant of the FLIRT has the same floor height as GO's BiLevel coaches (610mm) so it could interoperate with them if GO ever gets around to raising platforms and modifying coaches...

It feels to me like you're deflecting responsibility for the project's conscious design decisions that have severely undermined the line's utility. The 25 km/h limit is imposed by Transport Canada because they chose not to install sufficient track securing brackets. Metrolinx recently lifted...

I rode the REM Deux-Montagnes line this weekend and benchmarked its speed against the Trillium line travelling a similar distance. Needless to say the REM is way faster than the O-Train. The average speed of the REM is faster than the maximum speed the O-Train achieved between stations. I'm...

Metrolinx has stated that the Birchmount bridge work will require the 3rd track to be taken out of service, and as we mentioned here earlier the Danforth construction may require that as well. So it may not be until the 2030s that the 3rd track is continuously in service. Or in practice it may...

GEXR's lease ended many years ago. It's fully CN from Kitchener to Sarnia. However, you're correct that the speeds between Kitchener and London are so low that the speed restriction would make little to no difference. The CN segment from Bramalea to Georgetown is also not significantly affected...

It is theoretically possible to build a train that can cover 23 km in 25 minutes while making 7 intermediate stops. However, that requires more than just switching rolling stock. It also requires improving track speeds (e.g. in the USRC), and reducing dwell times.

You are definitely correct that we would not make back 5 stops worth of time by switching to EMU, and that it is theoretically possible to build a DMU that accelerates as quickly as an EMU at low speeds. However the DMU scenario is not a theoretical DMU, it is the Nippon Sharyo DMUs the original...

For hourly service you need passing tracks precisely 30 minutes apart. Currently the travel time is 29 minutes from Guelph to Georgetown so for the grade separation to work as a passing location the travel time would need to be reduced by about 5 minutes between Guelph and the grade separation...

Yes that is called Phase Insertion and that's what they do at Spadina and Lakeshore. In that case the default order is for left turns to come after the north-south phases so the inserted phase is actually after the left turn. In my opinion they should do that at all minor intersections along...

No, they only get priority over turning phases at Lakeshore. That's one of the numerous issues with the signal priority system that we need to fix. I don't know.

They have active Transit Signal Priority at half of the signals along Spadina: Sussex, Harbord, Willcocks, Russel, Nassau, St Andrew, Sullivan, Wellington and Lakeshore.

It's pretty funny to blame congestion considering the main focus has been on the Spadina streetcar, which is almost completely separate from traffic. Something is seriously wrong when a transit line with a dedicated ROW is averaging only 10 km/h

The size of the trains is dictated by the single busiest trip that train operates per day. So basically it depends on what trip(s) they operate at rush hour. For the trains running the Bramalea service at rush hour, clearly that's what they're doing at rush hour. That's not a particularly busy...

MPP Cerjanec read my blog post on the Lakeshore East express service, so that might be how he found out that most of the third track is still in service despite the construction at East Harbour, contrary to Metrolinx's claims. Him calling Metrolinx out on their false claims may be what forced...