SaugeenJunction
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Feel free to report in the ONTC thread too because it is a VIA train
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VIA Rail
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micheal_can
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I have reached out to Via asking why the change in livery. Once they reply (if they reply),I will post their answer.
T3G
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Why is the thought of VIA changing their livery so unfathomable? The TTC did it in 2016, even though their old paint was more than sufficient. So did GO. So did Mississauga Transit. And then again 15 years later when they decided the blue express livery was no longer worthwhile. So did York Region. So did Milton.
Management need to justify their existence somehow, so they push through unnecessary visual changes that will serve as their legacy. There is no secret conspiracy.
Management need to justify their existence somehow, so they push through unnecessary visual changes that will serve as their legacy. There is no secret conspiracy.
Dan416
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drum118
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If you look at how I tag the buses, I still call it Mississauga Transit as miWay is dumb. I can live with the colours, but could have been better considering the public had no say.
Mississauga
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Mississauga (miWay) Transit 2059 New Flyer XE60 Articulated Bus
If they are planning having VIA over 2 coaches, that is dumb. Look at what Brightline has done to their 5 car set and it will not match VIA 2 coaches style. Same for systems in Europe.
Did anyone asked the VIA riders for their input or was this done by the Feds or upper management??
nfitz
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Well it could be worse. biWay? yiWay?
If they were to merge Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon; they could call it triWay.
If they were to merge Mississauga, Brampton, and Caledon; they could call it triWay.
drum118
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na!! just peel transit that was first proposed when Peel was created in the first place to what exist today
dowlingm
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EDIT: please disregard the below as it refers to a May 2023 trip
A trip write-up someone did on a recent passage on 185/186. Doesn't sound like outlandish changes are coming equipment-wise, but surprising that buffer requirements have remained in place on this route such that passengers are only being carried in the middle of the three RDCs in the current consist.
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micheal_can
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They may have found issues that needed the buffer to continue and that is what is forcing Via to replace them with the Corridor cars.A trip write-up someone did on a recent passage on 185/186. Doesn't sound like outlandish changes are coming equipment-wise, but surprising that buffer requirements have remained in place on this route such that passengers are only being carried in the middle of the three RDCs in the current consist.
Is the results of he destructive testing public?
roger1818
Senior Member
A trip write-up someone did on a recent passage on 185/186. Doesn't sound like outlandish changes are coming equipment-wise, but surprising that buffer requirements have remained in place on this route such that passengers are only being carried in the middle of the three RDCs in the current consist.
The report was for a trip on May 6-7, 2023. The requirement for buffer cars was repealed effective May 17, 2023.
micheal_can
Senior Member
Ah,thank you for that clarification.
dowlingm
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I will edit my original - because of how groups.io threads messages I completely missed that it was a year old thread.
Urban Sky
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Groups.io is really the dinosaur of forums without any possibility to edit messages once you sent them…
nfitz
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It's just an email archive online. You can't edit what's in someone's mailbox!
Urban Sky
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It’s an idea which became obsolete the moment someone invented internet forums, so some 25 years ago…