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The schedule on the website is well out of date, unfortunately. There are 9 sets now in service every day, with a 10th slated to enter...
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Roads: Gardiner Expressway catch-all, incl. Hybrid Design (2015-onwards)
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The hundreds of people who lost their homes at the south end of Parkdale to allow for the construction of the Gardiner through there...
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Toronto | Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s
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Provided that the equipment has enough power to sustain higher grades, a 4% incline will not be an impediment - especially since the...
Saturday at 2:02 PM
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It's not. I worked at a host of different bike stores in my youth, most in the east end but one in Cabbagetown. In the east end, we'd...
Friday at 8:52 PM
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Two things....First, you get what you pay for. And second, $252 wasn't even half of average price of a rider's bike when I was last in...
Friday at 2:11 PM
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I think people are pointing out that this solution doesn’t address your larger concern: the spiraling cost of transit expansion in NA...
Friday at 2:03 PM
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They have fixed steps, not retractable. But then again, so do some of the commuter trains that run on the Northeast Corridor. It's not a...
Thursday at 10:09 PM
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They may be designed to "last" 20 km of tunnelling - or whatever the number may be, depending on type - but that doesn't mean that they...
Thursday at 10:01 PM
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And considering that the cost of the projects that use them are measured in the multiple billions of dollars, the savings of reusing the...
Thursday at 2:12 PM
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Toronto | Union Pearson Express | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | MMM Group Limited
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VIA trains - which use the same platform height - pass through Weston and Bloor at 70mph with no adverse effects. On Amtrak's Northeast...
Wednesday at 8:57 PM
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Toronto | Union Pearson Express | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | MMM Group Limited
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The "express" option is temporary until Mt Dennis Station opens. Those trains will then stop there when it opens. Perceived clearances...
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Nope. And it won't be until the days before the station is slated to be opened. Thus the trains are allowed to do full speed through...
May 21, 2024
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Probably not. It may be as simple as conditioning the surface of the rail in preparation for the ramping up to mock service. It may...
May 18, 2024
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It's not true. What the crews have been doing of late is LIDAR scanning every single point of the ROW. They do this to ensure...
May 17, 2024
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Not in case of, but rather due to a series of crashes. The FRA has since done a whole lot of testing and has come up with much safer...
May 17, 2024
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