The new Hess buses for Brisbane's "Metro" {ie Transitway} are double articulated, 100% battery, and completely low floor accessible. Such vehicles are available but, unfortunately, nearly all buses in NA are from either New Flyer or Nova {both Canadian} due to local content requirements here and...

I think in 30 years there will be no such thing as "The Crosstown". Due to Miller's "streetcar or nothing" mentality and ML very short-term thinking, the current Eglinton Line will simply not have the capacity needed to meet future demands. The underground section from approx DM to Renforth...

One would thinks so but nothing would surprise me, or Torontonians for that matter, when it comes to Eglinton.

When Eglinton opens in 2035, we will see how serious Toronto is about REALLY putting the needs of transit users over drivers. With today's technology they should be easily able to run trains every 4 minutes in each direction and, even with the ridiculous number of stops, not have to make a...

I am not as familiar about the highway needs of Quebec but for Ontario, I think a long-term goal should be a Lake Erie freeway connecting SWO to Niagara/Buffalo. Essentially this would mean an eastward extension of the 402 from London to Niagara roughly following the old HW#3 serving...

Good thread as Libraries can often be the heart of a community. That said, what does this have to do with transportation? Perhaps moving it over to another another sub-forum like buildings would be a good idea?

The elevated Gardiner is going ahead but, contrary to what many highway haters believe, that could be a great thing and it wouldn't require much money but simply imagination. Underneath the Gardiner, land is truly a diamond in the rough and once polished it could become a the new "go-to" place...

I am not against Ford taking over the DVP & Gardiner but it is a matter of equity and making, as an example, Windsorites feel their needs and concerns are just as important and valid as Torontonians. Ontarians know that big cities face unique challenges and expenses and the amount of funding...

This is great news for Toronto and once again shows that, despite Torontonians bitching about Ford, he is the best Premier the city has ever had. Conversely, this upload will be viewed with distain from other 13 million Ontarians that don't live in Toronto. Toronto is in it's financial mess...

^^^ I looked it up and it said $4.40 so is that the Presto discount? I think they should increase that to 20 km in the city so that it is enough of a fair to go across the city and not just to Union. Also, it would be a hell of a lot easier to explain and understand if they dropped the Presto...

Not sure I'm getting this right but.............essentially this means that whatever the fare is between 2 destinations you pay the first fare but it's good for all the system transfers and if you use GO the most you pay if the GO regardless of how many boundaries you cross. Is that right...

Please God not another stupid GO train expansion to London. If they just resurrect the recently panned GO service with a couple more trains, Londoners will lovingly embrace it as much as the last one. If she knew what London actually needed, the trains would be for London commuters and head into...

This is the kind of thing that opponents of higher density will bring up to reinforce their ideas that higher density infill is a bad idea. This is the most horrid looking bunker I have ever seen and is the poster child of bad urban infill. It's not only ugly but, more importantly, doesn't fit...

EMUs do have the advantage of not having the small jerk you get when the train stops or starts which you naturally get when a loco is pulling trains as opposed to all cabs being powered. Conversely, EL have lower vibration and noise levels while actually travelling because they are further from...

Just because GO doesn't mention EMUs now doesn't mean they won't in the future. When you have nearly 900 bi-levels, you can't just sell them for pennies on the dollar. I can see them gradually being phased out especially for lines with closer station spacing. As for the longer routes ie to...

Don't know if I already asked this but.................when building the downtown tunnel for the GL are they planning to make it a double level station so any future East/West trips thru the downtown could potentially be tunneled more easily?

I suggest you watch it. It had nothing to do with London's BRT and everything to do with Kitchener's ION. I want Reece to do a video about Edmonton's LRT because I'm very curious about what's going with the CTrain.

I usually really like Reece's video but the last are the first times I have given them a thumbs down with the other obviously being his truly bizarre London video. I really support the idea of EMUs but not at any price. He talks about spending $10 billion on GO so they might as well just spend...

This was the stupidest video Reece has ever done and after years of watching his usual excellent videos this is the first one I have every given a thumbs down to. It was suppose to be about London but he spent the first 2 minutes talking about what rapid transit is then spent time talking about...

I hope Calgary's new 48 km Green Line LRT which will also use low-floor trains doesn't have the same problems. I don't think they will as Calgary has a habit of doing things right the first time and often ahead of schedule and on budget. Calgary transit doesn't get the respect that its due and...