hw621
Senior Member
What subway?+1 For the people.
Folks we are making life more affordable for you by making you pay more for your daily commute. Don't you see this? Hey look a subway for etobicoke!
What subway?+1 For the people.
Folks we are making life more affordable for you by making you pay more for your daily commute. Don't you see this? Hey look a subway for etobicoke!
What subway?
Huge political loss for the saving of pennies
Political loss for him, and the Tories for surePolitical loss, or political gain? Doing this helps him lose more seats, which, a conservative government has done very little good for this province.
Using Data from https://www.transsee.ca/ i made a velocity vs time chart for the 5:23AM-7:50AM Niagara Falls Go Train. Where it has negative velocity means the train is backing up at West Harbour Go. .
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Metrolinx is cancelling the $1.50 GO/TTC fare discount effective March.
Ford government to end GO to TTC discount by March: Metrolinx
A program that allowed commuters to save $1.50 on their TTC fare each time they transferred from off of the GO Transit network will end in March, as the provincial government and Metrolinx say the funding will not be renewed by the Ford government.www.cp24.com
Using Data from https://www.transsee.ca/ i made a velocity vs time chart for the 5:23AM-7:50AM Niagara Falls Go Train. Where it has negative velocity means the train is backing up at West Harbour Go. .
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I take it the speed limit between St. Kitts and West Harbour never exceeds 100km/ph.
That's awful.
We're that speed limit sufficient to allow GO's typical top running speed of 140km/ph over that stretch, it would produce a substantial trip time savings.
Also, too many intermediate stops in the west GTA for such a long trip.
It should be limited to W. Harbour, Aldershot, Oakville, and I would have said Pt. Credit over Clarkson, but w/e,. one other pre-Union stop.
2hrs 21, could be shaved down to under 1hr 50 for sure.
The zone speed on the Grimsby Sub is 65mph.
As for saving much time......eh, probably not that much, at least not without a ton of work. If you study the graph a bit more closely, you'll see that the peak speed between Niagara Falls and St. Catharines was just that, a quick peak. That means that the train is spending all of its time either accelerating or decelerating, with no cruising. Between St. Catharines and West Harbour there are more opportunity to improve the speed limit, but even then there are a number of additional restrictions (the speed drops at 6:07 and 6:10, and the much lower plateau around 6:20 where the train enters the 30mph PSO in Hamilton) that aren't going to allow for much in terms of further time savings.
The single biggest saving to be found will be the elimination of the back-up manoeuver into West Harbour, and that's going to save 10 minutes. But another 20 minutes of savings? Maybe if you eliminate ALL of the other stops....
Dan
The zone speed on the Grimsby Sub is 65mph.
Between St. Catharines and West Harbour there are more opportunity to improve the speed limit, but even then there are a number of additional restrictions (the speed drops at 6:07 and 6:10, and the much lower plateau around 6:20 where the train enters the 30mph PSO in Hamilton) that aren't going to allow for much in terms of further time savings.
Even 1h30min if electrified (and that can bring an Acela between Toronto-NYC too).2hrs 21, could be shaved down to under 1hr 50 for sure.