Oakville plans for new "Cityval" System

[ssiguy2]

Justin.......I think you are probably right about Oakville sucking up to Siemens as they will be building an office there.
I am so very glad that Montreal and Toronto don't behave in a similar way to Bombardier.

 

[M II A II R II K]

It's too late now with the orders and designs and stuff but it could have gone on Eglinton, with the less noise and the flexibility to run cars as long as you need at the time of day, would be off the road as well.

 

[doady]

It is encouraging, however, to see a relatively small city looking towards it's future and susbtainability with mass/rapid transit.

I guess that explains why Oakville Transit cut so much bus service recently.

 

[unimaginative2]

VAL is a proven technology that has been used effectively in Lille, Toulouse, and Rennes. There are enormous advantages to full automatic operation of trains. If you don't have the cost of a driver, you can much more easily split trains and maintain frequencies off peak by running shorter trains. There is no economic disadvantage to it.

 

[dowlingm]

Toronto can't wait to buy as much of Bombardier's trains etc. as possible to put money into Thunder Bay (the linkage between the downtown streetcar bid process and TC LRVs ensured that) but David Miller opposed Porter Airlines who have indirectly employed workers at Bombardier Downsview right in the 416 for quite some time now...

As for a Cityval for YTZ - the pedestrian tunnel is a missed opportunity to extend the streetcar network to the Island from Bathurst and Union and provide an example for the Cherry LRT to be similarly extended across the Eastern Gap when built. However since a ped tunnel is what's being built I see no need for a duplicative gadgetbahn.