Bang on, repeat this from the hilltops a thousand times over. I am frankly tired of "LRT vs Subway" because 99% of the conversation actually has literally nothing to do with light rail vs. heavy rail. Nearly nobody actually argues the cost-benefits of using low-floor vs high-floor vehicles...

With the soft-confirmation that Alto is going to terminate at Union Station in Toronto, isn't this also a soft-confirmation that the trainshed is going to go? They cannot electrify the station, so something would have to give. Unless they steal the south concourse from GO Transit.

Haha. Just before I saw your reply I had edited my post with "Either operational or infrastructural reasons shut down this line. I don't really know if this failure is due to operational issues (TTC thinks its "too risky" or just has no clue how to clear snow off ROW) or infra reasons, but I...

A couple things can be true at the same time. - 6 went completely down. That is a catastrophic failure. There's frankly no way service can get worse than "literally nothing". - 1, 2, and 4 were online. They continued to bring riders to destinations. - There were significant delays at times...

I believe you are misunderstanding adys. He is not commenting on the underground portion, but the surface portion of line 5. Thus, for comparing stop spacing, it is more apt to compare Coxwell - Kennedy on 2 vs. Don Valley - Kennedy on 5. I have taken the liberty of calculating the stop spaces...

I am not going to carry water for the horrible operating procedures the TTC has, but can we please stop with this bit that stop spacing has little effect on travel time and that LRTs (or "LRT" for St. Clair or whatyoucallit) needs to have a stop every 200 meters or else we need a separate bus...

It amazes me that neighbourhoods fighting *against* a shorter access to a station is so common. I don't know the reasoning put forth but some residents likewise shut down an access to the Transitway Erin Mills station, extending some trips to the transitway some 750 meters. I always thought some...

Thankfully, we actually invented a tool to solve this problem that averages shouldn't be ranges but also may not convey some useful information. This is called standard deviation. I've taken the liberty (aka i'm procrastinating) to measure and calculate it. Line Length (km) Stops Average Stop...

The problem is that we end up comparing (project A costs, toronto, 2019) versus (project B, not toronto, some other time) and so inevitably we kind of miss the elephant in the room that we are completely incapable of building at cost. "110M/km for tram or 130M/km for elevated subway" makes...

Beyond the longer post I made focused purely on the shelters of 6FW vs. ION, when compared to Paris' T9, which is nearly identical length, stop wise, and median-running tramway, - CBTC is used on 6FW. T9 and ION both use far simpler signalling systems - 6FW having massively overbuilt and...

Probably this. The CS team probably is not really integrated with the scheduling team nor have the exact trip details on hand. They probably just looked at the pdf and went "Well, the pdf says so." Not even sure if I would call that subpar on the CS's part. Thats just them operating on bad info...

I see. Thanks

I've watched the video (and thanks for it- it is very good) but is the sole reason just that the gap (or step down then step up) just that it could be a tripping hazard? I feel like it might on day one but people would get used to it, especially if signed well.

Perhaps someone more educated on level boarding can tell me, but I don't understand why they don't just build the platforms at level height (where possible, I know the freight width issues) and have passengers board with a wide step instead of a step up. To me, it sounds like a sidegrade at...

Yep. I dont think that flyover counts as mainline rail, so I dont think it can qualify for the title of tightest mainline rail, but it is tighter than all the examples posted above at a whopping 130m radius by my satellite guessery I'm a bit too young in the transit space to know the debate...