Caught the first train out of Mill Woods at 510. Not sure why TransEd and everyone else said trains left from both ends at 515 because that was incorrect, so, technically the trains leaving Mill Woods was the first in service. Nice ride, no complaints. Not like that Journal article made it out...

Careful assuming capacity. A SD160 has a seated capacity of 60, so 5 cars is 300 seated. The Flexity I think I counted 74 today, so 222 seated for a 3 car train, and I just can't see standing passengers packing into a low floor LRV like they can with U2's and SD160's on the Capital Line.

53-56 are expanding service into earlier and later time periods (late nights), some of which is only on weekends, and then and extending additional trips to Meadows in the case of the 55/56. The 56 I believe is 100% WEM to Meadows now. 500x is adjusting schedules and adding some trips to make...

VLW LRT is a 46 car purchase.

Presumably that is under the 5 minute operating scheme. I would imagine running 10 minutes at peak through February should see every train being 2 cars, or else they'll be setting up riders for potential disappointment if the 1 car trains can't handle the crowds easily. And certainly the first...

70 minute roundtrip = 7 trains.

That's an intersting proposal. My first thought was why not simply go into MWTC instead of Bonnie Doon. Turns out going to MWTC is 7 minutes quicker, but, you have then ride the LRT right from MWTC which is going to add more than 7 minutes to your journey. So then my next concern is ridership...

Curious if you have any more information on this? Were any particular sections worse, or better than others? Specifically I'm wondering if the direct fixation track was closer to spec, and the embedded track more likely to be out of spec.

The Arc ticket is more expensive. It is $3.50 like a cash fare. And this is important. The Arc ticket is only intended to be sold as a single unit to a walk up customer buying a single fare. You pay the same for an Arc ticket that you would walking up to an old TVM with $3.50 cash. The...

Edmonton never got Translink's old TVM's. The other poster just commented that Edmonton and Vancouver had the same basic machines, and they are right. Both were supplied by Cubic, Translink's machines just had more bells and whistles than Edmonton's. Indeed, Translink's newest machines look even...

Only a small number of cars had those applied in the first place. 3 I think. So, you would have had to have known the numbers of those cars to be able to verify they had the wrap removed.

So, this still means that someone drew up the plans wrong, or WPE didn't read the plans right and put the cables in the wrong conduit. Oh well. I guess it could have been worse, and at least it wasn't an issue with the material... will just be mainly labour costs to move the cables.

Yes, trains were out, at least in the south. You're also changing the concept for the certification that is being done. It is not "safety certification". Although no doubt safety aspects are included, the independent certification is going to be reviewing everything that has been done for...

Calgary used a gantry crane for their WLRT extension, which crossed over a multi track CP mainline.

It is 10 minutes peak/ 15 minutes off peak between Mill Woods TC And Leger. This is nothing new. It's been like that for sometime now.

Saw 2, 2 car trains Downtown, but later following the VLSE south from Downtown... nothing. So much for simulated service to Sunday and Monday.

The 523 is an oddball. Since the start of the BNR, outbound in the AM has been 10 minute frequency, and inbound in the PM at 12 minutes. The flip side is 20 minutes outbound in the AM and 24 minutes inbound in the PM. During the summer AM inbound drops to 12 minutes, and I forget now what...

It "feels" like they should have had one by now. I was half expecting something myself by now. Went and did some looking back. Cable issue announced June 26. 6-8 weeks to fix. Today concludes week 10 since the announcement came on a Monday. And it wasn't like it took a week to mobilize. They...

Random thought about watching the resumed Mill Woods testing, and keeping in mind I'm always suspicious of TransEd, I genuinely wonder what they're actually doing apart from having trains out for the sake of being able to say that they are testing trains. They aren't running 2 cars trains, they...

How is this an issue? Of course they are adding more bays. They are for the cars for the Valley Line West extension.