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From both the brown and the fact I pulled it out of a Metrolinx report saying it wasim guessing from the brown that this ones ours?
From both the brown and the fact I pulled it out of a Metrolinx report saying it wasim guessing from the brown that this ones ours?
Canada is a little bit more lax than the US, but will be a bit tougher once the new regulations come in. Sadly after Lac Megantic I can't see a proposal to loosen train safety standards going over very well.
....? Scarborough extension is 7.6km long..
Also freight safety regulations mean that the flexity can't run under mixed rail conditions.
I thought it was a dark green and light green, not brown.im guessing from the brown that this ones ours?
Also, as far as the Bombardier Flexity LRT/commuter vehicles......... Vancouver is looking into them for it's Fraser Valley LRT and the US is going to be allowing them soon. I don't think they would be an issue.
Currently. As far as I know, Canada tends to follow the US on these regulations -- and the US FRA is planning to switch over soon to the European approach of allowing non-tanks to share trackage with freights.
No offense but that's a horrible proposal. There's a pretty good reason why maps like that are little more than sheer fantasy. I suppose you don't ride on GO's very frequently. If you did you realize that there are delays occurring at the time, be it medical emergencies, on board disturbances, trespasser incidents, mechanical issues, wheel slippage, signal problems, weather related delays, etc. What do you think will happen if there is any kind of delay to any train on one track? There will be a huge cascading effect down the line. That fantasy map does not have a single crossover between the tracks used for heavy rail for over 10 miles. Meaning multiple trains will get effected by the slightest delay to a single train ahead of them. Basically there's no allowance for any operation irregularities and that's why there is zero chance that GO would ever adopt such a proposal or for that matter any proposal that allocates less that 3 tracks for that corridor considering the future service levels planned for GO, UPX & VIA. Even if they were together with multiple crossover points, two tracks wouldn't be enough because if one track went down it would still cause huge delays trying to get trains going in both directions over a single track. That's why the Lakeshore corridor is the only one that has local and express GO trains and regional VIA because it's almost entirely triple track with crossovers located every couple of miles.
Question I wanted to ask the more technically up-to-speed folks around here.
I am one of those people who think that the KW/GT corridor has great potential for a lot of people and one of the things that would help it reach that potential is a Liberty Village station. As a laymen, every time I look out the window of a train at this property (or, conversely, every time I am in Liberty Village myself) and wonder if it is at all feasible/possible to just convert the northern edge of First Capital's property to platform? I get that this might only work for the EB trains (or maybe not) but it would seem to be a very simple solution....but, as I admit, I am not the best at the technical side of things.
What trains or lines do you expect to use that platform?
If you expect to see all 4 lines using that platform with duel direction, it will be an operation nightmare and impossible based on ridership demand as well service.
The only train that could service that platform would be the Milton Line since it only has to deal with a single crossover.
You are coming out of the underpass at this point with block signals off to your right as well the tracks for the Georgetown-KW line. No room to put in high speed crossover for all 4 tracks without more block signals