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There are many commonalties needed. We need animal crossings, so these can be multi-purpose buy-ins. It doesn't have to be "Because of OSFC" but a large combination, like "....for all maintenance equipment, trail users, snowmobilers, animal migration, farmers, and more..." Many crossings can...

On the theoretical concept of REM construction intentionally creating more future tunnel work (ALTO) under Mont Royal. (SNC Lavalin being both REM and ALTO makes a lot more sense, egged on by CDPQ) Aaaaaand.... I'd actually hope the above was covertly one of the reasons. It means they were...

Touché. Ironically, the same members of REM might help VIA into downtown Montreal, undoing that mess. Given the ALTO train might need a separate tunnel, and that might also have collaborations with the VIA corridor trains too. Maybe that's why they shoo'd VIA out of the REM corridor, cuz they...

It is a fair early catenary canary warning to a cautionary tale; but we shall not pre-emptively jinx the notion. REM showed us. I'm still jealous of Montreal.

Despite the big M, our GO trains are the North American Commuter Train Champions We all are very dissapointed at the <whisper> that regional transit agency </whisper>. Yet, GO trains are now awarded the best-commuter-train trophy on this (train-mediocre) continent. How's can that be? Heck, our...

I doubled the size of my post with my famous Wall of Text edits. Study up, bud!

The new article is fascinating and dissapointing at the same time. I'm happy human reporters are still doing good writing on good sites! Fortunately, catenary is still coming to Toronto, courtesy of ALTO Train. ALTO is the trojan horse that forces GO Electrification While that may not be by...

That's true. But, there's the potential brought by the Lewis Yard (near Grimsby), which I wrote about a decade ago at www.raisethehammer.org/article/2672 While simpler addition of signalling is what is needed, I observe that the newer 2015-built bridge over Centennial Parkway has lots of unused...

A transit speed up of 56 minutes to 17 minutes is fairly transformative. There will be major economic impacts for even intra-regional travel.

Sidestepping the debate of "should Metrolinx be involved?".... Metrolinx network map diagrams now show ION LRT, indicating its importance as a line that interchanges with Kitchener GO. While it is not yet in Metrolinx sphere, it could very well eventually be, given Metrolinx now funding some...

DMUs would be great too. Maybe Metrolinx wants to electrify UPX and sell the old UPX trains, as another source of DMUs by year 2040ish. That being said, BEMU would be a strong contender by that year, so it may depend on what is available. And whether the new Federal Transit Fund is unlocked...

No. It isn't anymore in the time windows we're talking about -- I would think by 2044, that will be less than half of the commuters. The intentional lowball of numbers definitely occurs to save face as the projects gets incrementally more attractive; Ottawa's first LRT had more than double its...

I view this line under the lens of seeing ION LRT Phase 2 *and* allday GO service to Kitchener. In that case, I believe ridership will be well over 1000 given the long-term aspirations to densify the region. There's obviously the famous NIMBY factor here, but look at what happening -- even...

That's a good question - you're right. It may represent their aspirations of peak period GO trains someday in the future, maybe a few off the Kitchener Line only at peak. Much like the fork between Hamilton West Harbour (all day) and Hamilton Downtown GO (peak).

I wonder if the hypothetical full size trains are from a hypothetical Milton line extension. Good questions though. That being said, early BMU trials elsewhere are showing rapid development and deployments. Japan now has over 20 BEMU trainsets in operation, and now deployed in a few...

This PDF has some pretty cool snippets, and appears to be a fascinating solution for a quick commute between Cambridge and Guelph: In between the text are these pretty cool table snippets, that gives a good picture of the proposal. From page 32: From page 34: From page 35: Options...

Just in... a 166 page IBC PDF released this less than one hour ago Four proposals, all involving 4-coach battery multiple units, in various possible 30min or 60min AD2W service between Guelph and Cambridge. https://pub-regionofwaterloo.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=8846

Just saw on my X feed that someone did concept art of Stadlar KISS with GO livery: Conceptual art as it may be, it looked too irresistible not to post here. Although Metrolinx is planning to mainly stick to electric locomotive driven BiLevels, the high-station-density routes may needs...

It's definitely one of my least favorite changes to the Hamilton LRT lines. However, if the line is /finally/ built, it still signals Hamilton is at least /relatively/ a more serious city. I like the optimist glass-half-full view. I still want the line to happen, obviously! Agree Rapid...

FYI! There is already a Centennial GO station elsewhere (not on Lakeshore), so that Centennial Street station is actually called Confederation GO Station.