This thread is is about VIA rail and, contrary to what some of you may think, there are people in Canada who do not live between QC & Toronto. Bio-fuels are also an option for the the rest of the country outside the cherished Corridor {London/Windsor excepted} but outside To/QC I don't think so...

VIA is going to have to de-carbonize it's entire network and the only way to do it is hydrogen. Can you imagine VIA putting up 7,000 km of catenary? This is why, even if they electrify the Tor-QC portion, they are going to have to go hydrogen with the entire rest of the country. This will be...

I think VIA will eventually abdicate the entire London-KW-Toronto route to GO and put all it's focus on the much more profitable and direct Windsor-London-Oakville route. Whether that's a good thing is yet to be seen. VIA doesn't seem the least bit interested in improving service. VIA will...

Yes, there is the old London-Port Stanley Railway and it is in OK condition as it still used by the VERY occasional freight train and would be good for a commuter line but is only one track and more importantly doesn't come close to the Amazon plant. I think if they work out a deal with...

Some good news for London commuters. Right now construction is well underway on a massive new Amazon distribution centre in Talbotville near ST.thomas and between ST & London at the old Ford factory. It's a monster and will employ 2,000 FT workers. The problem?...............it has absolutely...

Well it looks not only like GO London is permanent but also the province wants to both speed the service and expand it. That's great news because as it stands right now, the service is basically useless. What would be ideal would be if GO starts doing trips INTO London in the am with trains...

Now that London is about to get 3,000 ex-Torontonian downtown government workers, maybe GO will actually provide USEABLE a service to London.

Forgetting the fact that I don't think we should be renaming/tearing down anything, Toronto Metropolitan sounds like a church. I think a better name would have been Univ of Ontario @ Toronto. This way other cities that need a university could tie their name to it to give them some recognition...

Is Toronto Metropolitan University the new name for Ryerson? Dear God could they have thought of anything worse?

My only concern with using all the DD until they get more EMUs is that it will be difficult to differentiate the services. One of the many benefits of using EMUs for RER sections is that it would be simple for the average passenger to know what service level the next train would...

One can hardly be surprised at the increased frequency although admittedly it much more than I thought. Forgetting about the inner city where the lines merge, 15 per-direction was the base line service level. There is no way they were going to run as many trips in rush hour or even during the...

Well this is nothing but fantastic news and it seems that ML really has done their due diligence of studying other systems worldwide and adopting best practices. Again, my only concern is that all the cars on the trains are DD. I think DD is great but with one big caveat..........they should...

I don't see the problem with electric locomotives to start. For RER sections they should be single level EMUs but those can be phased in. The DD trains right now are in great shape and it would be a scandalous waste of precious transit dollars to ditch them. Thou they will be slightly slower...

^^^^ In other words, instead of a few slow trips to China, you have more slow trips to China.

I guess what I said just 10 days ago has already turned out to be true. Infrastructure costs are soaring worldwide and thus many systems are having to scale back their once ambitious plans and/or go way over budget. Lack of supply, lack of labour, and soaring commodity prices are a deadly combo...

Very true, Toronto doesn't have the climate for it. What many cities now do is simply run on battery when going thru more historic or pedestrian heavy areas. It rids the area of the ugly overhead wires. It's becoming very common and in fact the new nearby Detroit Streetcar is 100% battery as...

Capacity will not be a proble. This is a high capacity line and remember that by the time it opens, RER will be going strong so you won't get as many people from Scar taking the subway in the first place. What I'm interested in is what happens to Queen when the line is done. Do they still...

When I say that bike lanes reduce the sidewalk width I don't mean they will be slimmer than they are now but rather much thinner than they could be. The sidewalks should be 100% widened to where the single lane car lane is now. What are bike lanes? They are an active TRANSPORTATION system...

Ya, I meant Davenport. Well one can only hope that they don't put in more stupid bike lanes because all it will do is decrease the sidewalk widths.

What about Dupont to College? They should be at least doubling the sidewalks with nice brick as opposed to standard ugly concrete. Torontonians have gotten use to Yonge which is a shame because it results in people having low expectations of it. I don't think Torontonians truly appreciate what...