actually even in suburban areas of Hong Kong such as tin shui wai has large amounts of pedestrian overpasses and Nathan Road has a lot too just that they all take the form of underpasses.

ya they should have a skirt covering the exposed bottom of the train like the MTR SP1900 or just the front, like this but without the coupler, and keep "smile train" look... just kidding but seriously the bottom of the TR looks like it is missing something.

Firstly rebranding the service does help, in a place such as Canada where HSR is making its first debut. Secondly Acella has better HSR infrastructure than The Corridor, how about upgrading that to the level the NEC has achieved. Sounds like a semi-ambitious first step to me. Thirdly our HSR...

But the C train used a pre-metro LRT method that is tried and true around the world, unlike monorail. The people in Calgary didn't want it because... well they didn't want it. We don't want monorail because it does't work. BTW monorail = mass (only in East Asian environments), rapid (so is...

ya, like that will fly. Lets kill the freight traffic cash-cow and spend more money by building another expressway for the extra trucks the ban created. and yet the Acela makes a profit... and it is in America, which is actually worth comparing to based on the similar society, norms, and...

not all PPP's are like Taiwan's, Taiwan's is just an example of poor planning and management, but many people on this board says that a Canadian HSR will make more money if you put more money into it eg. TGV style, which first timers like Canada and Taiwan can screw up, and if you screw up...

I understand that the most if not all the dept of the Taiwan HSR is caused by bad loans but in Canada, PPPs is the only way mega-projects like these will ever see the light of day.

Like what Hipster Duck said those European systems/corridors have an existing system of flexible intercity passenger rail travel, which Canada really lacks. Also Americans have a different mindset about intercity travel compared to Europe, not that the American car culture will never disappear...

That is of course debateable, ridership and public opinion may warrant better rail but how better? HSR @ 200 Kph? or 300 Kph? or increased service? First ridership There are 6.9 million trips between Toronto and Montreal each year most by car, sounds like a lot right. If we build the HSR by...

i think the capsule should stay on the train until it meets the next station; where the empty capsule will be picked up and another full one slid on in its place from that station and the cycle continues. Then the distance between the stations can act as a buffer. This should only be used in...

i agree the we have went too far down route to low density sprawl, to make any major continental wide changes to the way we take transit in our lifetimes but that shouldn't stop us from starting and putting down the foundations for better transit. Contrary to what the politicians think.

that is China for you, if they are not aggressively pursuing new technology that no one is willing to give a try, they are super-sizing and super-charging on existing tried and true methods, if they are not doing ether of these things; they are innovating in new technology, new ways to get...

looks scary working up there, looking at that picture made me scared of falling of my chair.

it is kind of a chicken vs. the egg thing, traffic slow because the are too little freeways for traffic slow because of of suburban sprawl caused by freeways. Also Toronto is in between when it comes to sprawl not as sprawling as LA, Houston and all those other suburban kings of america, but not...

what kind of highway are you driving on? a German one?

they need a larger tunnel diameter to accommodate the overhead wire. Unlike 3rd rail used in subways overhead wire and pantograph take up more room.

exactly, subways do bring lots of changes to an area especially easily intensafiable (is that a word?) areas which at the moment are not very promising but in the future they will be.

I don't think wooden ties are ugly also they are pretty robust but concrete does have a more modern look also concrete cracks pretty easily too with acid rain. The key is maintenance because no matter what material you use, if you don't maintain it it will break or worse fail and in north...

I agree a commercial tax increase will make the businesses jump out of the 416 to the 905 faster than ever, then the subway would be useless as no one will work downtown anymore.

very true, low density residential areas are so full of NIMBYs (such as the areas around NYCC) that the area will never develop in 50 years or sometimes even ever. Sometimes it is easier to start with a clean slate(farmland) or like VCC, industrial land, which is really easy to develop. As...