I thought it was 50 too. Unfortunately, 76 metres in 7 seconds is 39 km/h, in 6 seconds is 45.6 km/h. No matter how I time it, front or back of train, there is no way it hits 50 km/h. There is clearly some sort of speed restriction in place, maybe they're overly cautious since the Sunnybrook...

I think once the Concord condos near the Canadian Tire are finished, Bessarion ridership will grow. Leslie, Rosedale and Summerhill could start competing for the title of least used station.

These issues are awful, and seem inevitable given the lack of winterization on transit projects in Toronto and Montreal recently. The REM's "breakdown or slowdown of at least 20 minutes every four days on average since the new branch opened" is far from the partial and full shutdowns plaguing...

Utsunomiya RT travels at about the same speed as Eglinton overall, but much faster than Eglinton's surface section. So yes, Eglinton can and should be faster. Eglinton could not be adjusted to run like Yamanote, which runs mostly, if not fully on old railway ROW. The type of running entailed by...

IMO this is a myth bc of what the TTC said in the Dec 10 board meeting and the slow speeds observed by trainspotters for years @robmausser : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5Xz9HS6ank

I have been on the line before. It has one remaining level-crossing since 2005, scheduled to be removed by 2029-30, and certainly not in the manner of a street median tram. It has/had protected crossings like a regular rail line. Pardon me for not noticing the one level crossing because I was...

I substantially agree with your overall point, but it's unclear whether a fully underground system would've taken longer to build in Eglinton's specific case. The added complexity of the 6 transitions between surface, underground, elevated, and the custom signalling etc. wasted a LOT of time...

Unclear, but what Line 5 operators are saying doesn't bode well for 'reliability'. I'm not going to bore everyone with more math. Good news: 88 km/h top speeds in the tunnel. Bad news: 22 min Mount Dennis to Laird with stops, but no other trains or passengers. Besides the surface section...

I should've clarified earlier, what I meant was companies don't have to provide insurance that OHIP etc. already covers. But they still do extended health benefits in Canada. That US plant situation was a self-inflicted foot shot. I saw ads in Ottawa for that Korean submarine, don't know how...

"Ottawa LRT chaos: Passengers walk on tracks after train stalls" These Citadis Spirits are garbage. At least the Toronto streetcars are decent.

I think Fraser purports to factor that in somewhat, because the numbers are all in CAD. But idk where they are getting the numbers as to have such a large gap. This is the best apples to apples I can find quickly, note StatsCan is in 2023 CAD and FRED is in 2023 USD...

Yes. And companies save on having to provide most health insurance in Canada. Take this with a grain of salt, the real gap is a bit smaller: https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/our-incomes-are-falling-behind-earnings-in-the-canadian-provinces-and-us-states-2010-2022

By the way, in case it wasn't obvious, Line 5 Eglinton will likely be slower than the bus from Sunnybrook to Kennedy during early rush hour (right now): 33 minutes for the 34 Eglinton East bus vs. 35 minutes for Line 5 Eglinton

Overall average speed for the roughly 19 km line would be ~19 km/h, yes. The average speed in the eastern 7.7 km section would be ~12 km/h. Western section I checked is actually closer to 10.7 km long, and average speed should be somewhere between 27 to 31 km/h roughly. ~30.5 km/h if you...

You're sidestepping the point. The point is, Eglinton won't get anywhere close to the advertised average speeds, nor will it get close to what many naively imagine to be its speeds on the eastern section. Bickering about semantics or minute details doesn't take away from the overall argument...