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UUrban Sky reacted to lenaitch's post in the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City) with
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Assuming this is intended to tie into the Don Branch then CPKC, I have a hard time envisioning that kind of average speed. I'm not a... -
UUrban Sky replied to the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City).The project you linked (YNSE) has a price tag of $5.6 billion (i.e., not just the $1.4 billion quoted here for the „Advance Tunneling“)...
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UUrban Sky reacted to KhalilHeron's post in the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City) with Like.
If sharing a GO corridor lets the first phase open sooner, it seems like the right move. The urban sections are the slowest and most...
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UUrban Sky replied to the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City).I suspect it‘s rather ALTO which would be reluctant to agree on such a cohabitation. For Metrolinx, track-sharing could be a welcome...
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UUrban Sky replied to the thread GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various).I was solely commenting on the question whether additional tracks were necessary if a hypothetical station was to be added at Lawrence...
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UUrban Sky reacted to reaperexpress's post in the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City) with Like.
I believe the Kennedy routing is superior to the Leaside routing, because in addition to being far cheaper to build it provides vastly...
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UUrban Sky replied to the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City).Indeed, even the fastest scheduled downtown-to-downtown travel speed I‘m aware of in Europe (Paris to Strasbourg at an average speed of...
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UUrban Sky replied to the thread GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various).I‘d like to just add the perspective of a Rail Operations Analyst to that final sentence: If the suburban train goes into a siding...
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UUrban Sky reacted to smallspy's post in the thread GO Transit Electrification | Metrolinx with Like.
The platforms for the UPX are all 48" above the top of rail - also known as high-level platforms. GO platforms are considerably lower...
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UUrban Sky reacted to Northern Light's post in the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City) with Like.
Correct, every modeled version to date shows the service using CPKC to exit Toronto.
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UUrban Sky reacted to McGillicuddy's post in the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City) with Haha.
At this point I'm starting to believe that HSR will use Doug Ford's 401 tunnel, with the station at the 407 subway stop.
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UUrban Sky reacted to nfitz's post in the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City) with Like.
Looking at other countries. In South Korea there's 3 HSR stations in Seoul on the line from Seoul to Busan, connecting to the Seoul...
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UUrban Sky replied to the thread Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City).Thank you for reminding us of what I thought (hoped?) we had already established months ago:
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UUrban Sky reacted to smallspy's post in the thread GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various) with Like.
This has nothing to do with following through with the exception fallacy, and everything to do with real life observations and the state...
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UUrban Sky reacted to urbanclient's post in the thread GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various) with Like.
Yes below 50-60 km/h there is virtually no acceleration difference. You are totally right about that. But the top end speed matters. Are...