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As much as I love the frequency of Toronto‘s transit networks compared to what we have to endure here in Montreal, it always shocks me how exasperatingly slow the Subway is…

It took me less than five minutes to realize that he must have been on train 60 or 62, which I immediately corrected by adding the part of the message you snipped away for whatever reason. If you look at his immediate response 9 minutes later, you can see that it already includes that part. I...

I‘m not going to crunch the numbers, but VIA‘s LD services serve a large number of ridings and provinces - both of which usually care when they are about to lose services and jobs which were previously paid by the federal government. Also, beyond the fleet renewal itself, the financial footprint...

Assuming that the Liberals get the procurement started before the election, there will need to be an explicit decision to stop it and at that point there will be countless ridings scattered across all 8 provinces VIA serves which will realize that they stand to lose their remaining passenger...

I believe that TC and VIA have made abundantly clear that there won‘t be any legacy fleet in operation beyond 2035. Cancelling or postponing the LD fleet procurement will be an explicit decision to phase out VIA‘s non-Corridor services…

I suspect he refers to the CTA (here the order which adjusted it to prescribe the January 1990 cuts), but I believe it has been repealed in the meanwhile (or at the very least no longer applies to VIA): https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/regulations/SOR-89-488/FullText.html

Sure, you can set up a franchise system like what should have happened (and refusal to do so will remain JT‘s single biggest transport policy failure) after Grayhound‘s departure. However, it‘s delusionary to expect that private companies will queue to operate 3tpw services like the Skeena and...

I‘m not claiming to have better insights into how PP thinks and what he will do after the election than others here, but the two intercity rail projects he‘ll find on the top of his transport portfolio are a project only benefiting Quebec and Ontario (and there mostly the 3 big Canadian cheeses)...

Correct. https://cptdb.ca/wiki/index.php/Amtrak_Talgo_Series_8

No need (and you see it really helps to provide train numbers when sharing such observations). It‘s train 52 and you are both passing through Napanee, as we speak:

This is obviously a deadheading move of an empty Siemens trainset, which doesn’t trigger any of the speed restrictions, as CN has no problem detecting the presence of the leading legacy trainset. Very obviously, not. Edit: are you on train 50/60 or 52/62? In which case, this would indeed be a...

That is something completely different. VIA‘s non-Corridor fleet serves far too many Conservative seats and nixing these routes would tarnish the Conservative‘s claim that they are the defenders of those Canadians who live outside of Ontario, Quebec and its three dominating big cities…

From all I gather, they have already been informed last month, but anyways, it‘s mostly a beauty pageant contest at this point, as the entire process was only designed to suit a liberal government which seems pretty dead at this point, not unlike the UK Conservatives during their final year...

I haven‘t had the time to look at this study, but definitely looks interesting: https://www.reddit.com/r/Amtrak/s/xCDS1Z4ECX https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/doe-eere-modal-reports_rail-energy-emissions-action-plan.pdf

All I‘m saying is that one thing which really shocks me whenever I return from Europe is how much louder any kind of commercial vehicles are on this side of the Ocean, despite all runnding on internal combustion engines. In many cases (honorary mention to fire trucks), it is directly related to...

Quite possible, but still doesn’t justify any decision to declare such noisy monsters as safe for operating in any residential areas. They are obviously (and unnecessarily) not…

From sweepers over garbage trucks to fire trucks - even virtually all (road) work vehicles are so loud here in North America, that the only work environment you could possibly get them certified for in Europe would be airports…

When it comes to North American State/Provincial capitals, Victoria and St. John’s really compete with Juneau and Honolulu for the title of the most disadvantageous location for justifying non-urban rail operations…

This is indeed getting off-topic, but also applies to railways: high-capacity buses (or: bilevel trains, for that matter) are mostly used when the frequency cannot be increased further. In my home town of Darmstadt (30 km south of Frankfurt), the responsible authority has capped the number of...

I just started a new book and thought that this European (German) design (from roughly the same era as the Skyline cars) looks strikingly similar: