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Leo_Chan said:
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this post and the linked tweet from people who think the Relief Line will be Line 6. I understand people not realizing Line 3 Scarborough will be gone by the time the Relief Line gets built, but it still bothers me that people get it wrong. Maybe I’m just mad that people less educated on transit (not nerd on UT) don’t do enough research. Also, Ontario Line btw!
https://www.reddit.com/r/toronto/comments/bbb8mf
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Could have been worse! Could have been the Rob Ford Memorial Line! :eek::eek:

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From link.
 
robmausser said:
ART is still 3rd rail for power collection. I meant something like the Canada Line in Vancouver but much longer trains.

3rd rail but not traditional subway tech.
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It's the traditional SkyTrain Expo/Mill/Evergreen lines that have different technology......linear induction. The Canada line is standard 3rd rail subway which could be used on the TTC subway system.
 
narduch said:
That's actually good marketing though.
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Yeah, I thought 'WTF' initially, until realizing the implications. And it may also offer a hint as to the technology too.
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Technology[edit]

A train parked at the Canada Line Operations and Maintenance Centre near Bridgeport station
The Canada Line uses a fleet of trains built by Rotem, a division of Hyundai Motor Group. The trains are powered by conventional electric motors, rather than the linear induction motors used by the Expo and Millennium Line's Bombardier ART trains. Canada Line trains are operated by the same SelTrac automated train control system used in the rest of the SkyTrain network.

The selection of Rotem was largely a consequence of the request for proposals process for the public-private partnership, whose terms did not allow Bombardier to consider efficiencies in combining operations or rolling-stock orders for the new line with those for the existing system. This placed all bidders on a level playing field, albeit at the cost of not necessarily picking the most efficient choice for long-term operation. The RFP also required that the system have a capacity of 15,000 passengers per hour in each direction (leaving the choice of technology and platform length to the proponent) and a maximum travel time between the airport and downtown Vancouver of 24 minutes.[22]

The fleet consists of 20 fully automated two-car articulated trains, for a total of 40 cars. The capacity of the trains is estimated at 334 people per pair of cars (comfortably) or 400 people at crush load. The trains have a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour (50 mph) in normal operation and 90 kilometres per hour (56 mph) in catch-up mode. Each married pair of gangway-connected cars is 41 metres long and 3 metres wide, similar in dimensions to Ottawa's O-Train, and longer and wider than the Bombardier ART fleet used on the Expo and Millennium lines. Each train has LED electronic displays on the exterior to indicate the terminus station and on the interior to display the next station and the terminus station, a useful feature considering the line has two branches.

As of late 2017, Translink has ordered another 24 trains, sole sourced from Hyundai Rotem. The sole source contract will allow for commonality between the two train models, and reduce the number of specialized tools and parts required.[23]
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_Line#Technology

I suspect the choice of stock supplier and electrical supply will differ OHE vs third rail, and it will be longer trains (at least four cars to start) but the concept will be similar.
 
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