I think you're mistaking the Flexity Outlook streetcars with the Freedoms for the 3 LRT lines in Canada: https://www.alstom.com/press-releases-news/2021/6/alstom-signs-contract-supply-60-new-flexity-streetcars-city-toronto Edmonton received its last Flexity Freedom for the Valley Line in Q1...

AFAIK, the Flexity Freedoms have been out of production for 5 years, to restart production would be infeasible at this point. It's not surprising that Alstom would push their own rolling stock family (which are usually quite good, except for the Spirits). Hamilton's LRT will likely be stuck with...

Good thing Bombardier didn't get bought out by the makers of the Citadis Spirit...right?

The irony is, there's a very good chance that they don't extend the Ontario Line to Humber Bay. Knowing the governments, they'll be content with a "cheap" Waterfront West LRT by 2045:

Finch is a big transit hub for buses to and from York Region, GO and TTC buses as well. But you could argue it only became important after the subway terminated there 50 years ago. I think @TorontoPotential and the rest of you @lastcommodore @fanoftoronto @T3G make good points. Correct me if...

That's like asking what makes Metrolinx/TTC/City Transportation Services incompetent and behind the times? IMO, the answer to both of our questions is the same. I've been highly critical of Finch West, and yet I can still admit that they've noticeably improved the speed & travel time compared...

I think you're getting it backwards. It's the critical thinkers that point out the vast differences between European trams and 'LRTs' here. It's the hand-wavers with no substantive argument that tend to repeat the Europe mantra. I don't discount there are those that bash trams and Europe just...

Jeez, someone get those lovely people at TTR / Metrolinx / Wherever some better cameras and monitors. I think my old Nokia captures better video than that...

That's too absolutist of a take to prove. If I conveyed that absolutist notion earlier, that's my mistake. It's inferior in the examples I have given, not in every case, and certainly never wholly due to the manufacturer. Toronto Rocket's, inside and out are noticeably outdated compared to...

This is not really relevant to my main argument, as I have defended Innovia metro from being called obsolete or outdated by @6ixGod recently. Everline, Beijing Capital, Riyadh. KL I believe bought some Canadian-built, but later orders were locally assembled + tech transfers or something...

Ok I totally agree here. But having overtly banked turns doesn't seem to be necessary to make trams successful, including in Europe. The term europhile was thrown around by others because of pervasive hand-waving "do it like Europe" without any careful consideration of what exactly makes...

Do you really think it's feasible to retrofit banked turns on any of the LRT lines in Canada? Especially for Eglinton at this stage. Be serious.

See previous post: If we are paying more for Canadian labour, fine. But we should at least be getting better value-for-money than the Spirits in general and Freedoms on Eglinton. Let's be real here. The Freedoms are fine elsewhere, sure, but that doesn't negate the problems with them on...

See "post-opening", which I can promise wasn't edited in since you quoted it. And my later edit that 3 of 5 didn't even use Canadian-built trains ever. They're poor quality and/or outdated, not to mention expensive compared to even European-built trains (see below). For GO specifically, I am...

You're not comparing it to any baseline. You haven't heard of any major problems... Those Skytrain rolling stock types seem fine, but then again, only 5 other cities run Innovia Metros, and basically none of them bought Canadian-built rolling stock post-opening. EDIT: 3 of 5 didn't buy...