Permanent-ish. The non-stop trains will have Mount Dennis added to their schedules once that station opens. Dan

And more cab cars, too. Dan

This is not correct. Dan

The ridership on those trains is approximately the same as it was 22 years ago. It's not rocket appliances. Dan

The metric being focused on then and now was not seat-miles, but revenue trains, and specifically trains/day and trains/week. Each one of those deadheads that were converted to revenue runs counted as 7 trains/week. It's such an important metric that there needs to be a specific number of...

I wonder how he would feel if he knew that the original electrification plans were to only run 2 trains an hour under the wire then? Dan

This is one of the older reefers, not one of the new ones. Those ones are much larger, painted white, and numbered 253/254/255. Dan

No, you can't. For one, most of the CEM features on the newest cars are baked into the structure. Which is completely different - they now use a stainless steel frame that the aluminum skin panels are bonded to. And the first 24 inches of the body at either end is designed to crush and crumple...

Not necessarily. There are all sorts of dates - hard and otherwise - that are included in the contract language that aren't necessarily made public. What you want is more accountability, and in fairness I think that we all do. Having better contracts, with better oversight, I would argue are...

As much as I am loathe to give Verster some credit.....or maybe at the least, unfairly attribute something to him which isn't completely deserved.... The trend towards not announcing openings until some very limited time before it happens has been going on in the North American transit for...

So, here's the scoop.... The reason why you're sitting there could be one of a number of different issues. These are all generalities, but they're the most common and likely ones. - Your train is early. You have arrived at Union out of sequence, and so you get parked to wait for your turn. ->...

My guess is that some of the fine details - like the triggering sensors - just haven't been set up yet. Although it's curious, as it only took the City a month or two to adjust and configure the lights at the intersections on the underground sections of the line. But then again, maybe that's...

To be honest, most of the locations that GO operates on with any regularity are already using #20 crossovers. There are a couple of key locations however that have smaller, lower-speed crossovers installed. The plant at Fort York (located immediately west of Stratchan on the Oakville Sub) is a...

The benefits are that trains occupy that space for a shorter amount of time, which increases system capacity. As well, there is fuel saved by not having to decelerate and accelerate as much. And, of course, there's the overall time savings from a train that is able to operate at a higher average...

Further to this..... The speeds of the various turnouts are established by the individual railroads themselves, and are also adjusted by case - a single-turnout leading away from the tangent in a spiral will have a higher allowed speed than a crossover, which would induce a back-and-forth...

On the railroading side of things, there is a lot of integration testing required in advance of a signal system going live, and part of that involves the use of actual rolling stock. And upon completion of various stages of testing certain parts of it are then "tagged out" in advance of the full...

Oh, I completely agree on all counts. And my understanding is that at least some of the higher-ups at the TTC know about them. And honestly, the TTC has enough data points at their own disposal - and commentary from those closer to the ground - that they should be able to arrive at those same...

In the case of Eglinton Station specifically, what you are looking at now was not what was built originally. And in fact, what is there now is temporary. The original bus terminal was located along Eglinton, stretching from Duplex to Yonge. There was an entrance at Duplex, but it was closed...

They're not. They've standardized on the #20s. There are locations currently that have some slower-speed crossovers that will have those replaced with #20s, but that's about the most speed-up that will happen. Dan

Perhaps part of the issue is what is perceived as a "problem". At this point, I'm not convinced that anyone higher-up thinks that there is a problem with the streetcars, other than we need more of them - and to be fair, they do. There was a very, very serious underestimation of what the...