No, he didn't. One of his buddies - who is now a bus driver for GO Transit - was his private chauffeur for much of his life. I bet you also believe that the Ford's are the Canadian answer to the Kennedy's too, right? Dan

They have to. You can't have two TBMs operating parallel to each other. The idea situation is that the second TBM follows through the same area a month or so after the first. This is to try and limit any subsidence through as they pass. Dan

Yes. You've seen the public releases, too - where do they talk about improving train speeds and decreasing travel times on that stretch? They simply don't. From people inside Metrolinx, it just isn't on their radar. If it is going to be improved, then people need to start making noise about it...

Cool. Someone posted a comment on a blog. That does not equal the people doing that actual work that it was in their plans, which is what you are trying to conflate it with. Because it was not. Dan

Until more track is built through there, there will be no improvement of service to Confederation. CN has forbidden from having any more trains stop there. As well, because of how the signals are arranged, it is awkward to have trains turn back there. That's why all of the trains that do stop...

I think it might be both. When I took the line last week, I looked down at the rails - there is a surface texture at any location where a train stops that is best described as "pockmarked", and which I have never seen before. Resilient wheelsets can create unusual effects on the railhead due...

This is absolutely, positively not how it happened. The line was always planned to be put into the middle of the street. There were other small changes between the EA and built form, but they were minor enough that they did not materially affect the construction and operation of the line. I...

It's not. Dan

It will. The various flavours of ground-level power all have additional circuitry in them so that they are only activating the panels underneath the streetcar. That additional circuitry is all more stuff that can fail. And even better, is all placed below the top of the street, where it needs to...

Sure. It would really suck if our water system failed in May or June for example. But I'm not sure what fretting about the minuscule potential of a major infrastructure outage is going to achieve other than increasing your post count. (And yes, I see the irony of that statement.) Dan

Considering that the article is so limited on actual information as to be almost worthless, you don't actually know what the cause of the outage is. And for the record, neither do I. For all we know, it may be a water intrusion issue with all the freezing and thawing (and freezing) that we've...

There are a lot of people within the TTC who agree with your contention about the door operation of the streetcars. But those people aren't in a position (in some cases, yet) to make a decision against how operations are today, so things are as they are. This is one half of the Guideway...

I rode the line a couple of days before the TSP was instituted on those three intersections, and already it felt faster. I rode from Finch West to Islington Ave., and while I didn't have a stopwatch on the trip was a shade under a half-hour. However... At a good number of stops the operator...

It will take months to fully shake the trainsets out. This was just the first tentative steps, as required by Transport Canada. It sounds like most of the rest of the testing is happening up north, and possibly quite soon. Dan

If they quoted 10m/day - and to be honest, my recollection was that the number was 15 meters - then that is an average over the whole of the TBM's drive, not a maximum rate. TBMs that average those kinds of speeds are absolutely capable of bursts of as much as 25m/day or more if the soil...