There's no need for 5 car trains on the NLRT at this point. 4 car trains aren't even really needed for that matter.

Hit a southbound train. Car #2021. Stub train running in Mill Woods between Mill Woods and Millbourne. Looks like it's cleared as I am on a southbound that just left Davies.

Nothing online seems updated with the 5 minute peak service. No announcement either. That could mean this is just some sort of stress test to run the 5 minute service with passengers, while the parallel bus service exists in case anything goes sideways. It wouldn't be good if in February they...

Looks like the Valley Line is running 5 minute peak service.

I've seen A LOT on my short evening hops on the Valley Line (only need to go one stop) around 22:00. Other times of the day too for that matter. Those small shelters on the platforms are apparently quite tempting to take up residence in. I did see bike cops riding the line once (easy way back to...

The 510x ran 85 St, 38 Ave, 66 St through Mill Woods. The 15 pre-BNR ran the route you describe.

Google, Transit55.ca, ETS's trip planner. This is what ETS's says about it: The December Service Change maps will be available on December 3, 2023. Plan your trip early by selecting a date after December 3 on the ETS Trip Planner or Google Maps. This is pretty bad. This used to never the case.

Saturday midday to 15 minutes from Mill Woods - Leger is all the 56 sees added, besides making the Meadows extension full time.

Minneapolis runs a low floor version of the Flexity Swift, so, there is indeed a North American variant. It a 70% low floor LRV, so high floor at the ends above the powered trucks and low floor in the middle. What's wrong with Alstom? I have heard rumors that the new LRV order could be single...

It was in service. Last ran on November 17th. It was on display at CUTA. Returned to service on the 16th. It did complete it's full block on the 17th, so no reason to think there is a problem with it, but, it also hasn't been out this week yet either. Strathcona's bus isn't faring as well. It...

This is a vendor issue, not a technology issue.

We never had an order of 10. We had 1 order of 37 and 1 order of 20.

I doubt you've even occasionally seen them on the 9 as none are assigned! Oddball things do happen mind you. There is an artic trip on the 500x as they get freed up from the Valley Line I expect them to show up on there. Otherwise, there is nothing restricting them from the 9, and the 9 is also...

That's not quite accurate. Edmonton's first order were the first of the restyled SD160s. I don't recall the second group being piggybacks to Calgary's. They might have followed Calgary's on the production line, but I don't believe they were ever a piggyback onto Calgary's as Edmonton has...

Not sure which day it was since I was last on the VLSE on Tuesday when all schools were still out, but, by today all trains are now 2 cars, increased from alternating 1 car/ 2 car trains we saw for the first week and into this week. I assume weekends will remain the 1/2 split. Wouldn't be...

The purchase of LRV's for the Blatchford extension is a seperate project from U2 replacements. The intention is to tender them together, so the first LRV's to arrive would be for the Blatchford extension.

The BNR was already oriented around the Valley Line. Funding for the 73 came from LRT funding of some sort, therefore, that money didn't come from existing service hours, so no service hours to redeploy. The most exciting thing then is distributing artics to other routes. I believe the plan...

There's no way that 41 Oilers games and a 9 football games generates half of off peak ridership. Not a chance. In fact, I was quite surprised how busy the Capital line was midday today, to the point that on a 4 car train there weren't many seats left at Churchill.

It can. What is your source that it's limited to 12 minute frequency?

That poor convenience store... It opened upwards of 2 years ago, obviously seeing the potential with the LRT stop. I felt bad for them everytime there was another delay to the opening of the Valley Line. And yes, you can see they had big plans of offering hot food and what not but so far I guess...