Let’s not forget about the red signals they hit, one of them almost causing a deadly collision with a VIA train, as reported in a TSB report this week which got conveniently drowned in CN making noise about how serious they are about safety, while fighting the any mandate to install any...

I agree that a garage is for the fleets of the entire family, which in our case are 5 bikes, 1 tricycle, 3 prams, one little carriage and one snow sleigh, but no car, as we‘ve never owned one except for a few summer months some 10 years ago when we drove my brother-in-law‘s 94’ Toyota Tercel...

This would be certainly an option for TRTO-OTTW, where departures are often scheduled just an hour apart…

Agreed, cannibalizing the Siemens sets to form seven-car consists is a non-starter. Honestly, I don‘t see them making any major operational change, just biting the bullet and tolerate the additional delays while waiting until the shunt enhancers arrive and get installed one-by-one across the...

The privatization of Great Britain’s rail infrastructure (through an insane jigsaw of actors, overseen by incompetent Railtrack) was certainly a disaster, but I’m much less sure for the train operating company side, which mostly suffered from their overexposure to revenue risks and...

I would assume that the travel time penalty of these strings of 45 mph restrictions at protected level crossings (unprotected crossings thankfully can’t malfunction) is much less than you would think because it merely delays the point at which VIA get’s inevitably stuck behind the preceding...

If the options are to either; 1) lash up a HEP or legacy car to every Siemen's trainset. If that is even physically possible. 2) Add 2 Venture coaches to every Charger trainset, and cannabalise service/ frequency 3) Accept the speed restrictions while equipping a work around (“shunt enhancer”)...

The heavier the car, the more reliable the contact between the track and the wheel and thus the ability to conduct electricity through the wheel becomes. GO’s fleet of Bombardier Bilevels are among the heaviest passenger rail rolling stock available on this planet. Different wheel designs...

I wasn’t referring to the design, engineering or construction of CAHSR, but its financing - namely through Proposition 1A: Note that SF-to-LA is 500 miles (800 km) and thus only 50km shorter than T-O-M-Q and that 2:45 is far more aggressive than any travel time promise I’ve seen for TRTO-MTRL...

As I wrote on groups.io, not all issues can be detected during testing: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/99637 For someone who understands less about rail operations and safety than quite a few other commenters here, your comments here appear to me as strikingly opinionated...

At least in the case of the Brockville Sub (Smiths Falls to Brockville), this shouldn’t be a problem, as that line is ex-CP, not ex-CN.

I don’t know what the red lines of the private investors are, but if the government scales the project down to the point that the selected investors walk away, then this wouldn’t be wuite a different situation from on where the government simply nixed the project. I really hope that the people...

Friendly reminder that whereas “drinking water” is a need felt by all of the close to 8 billion humans on this planet, “travelling to White River, Ontario” is a need or desire felt by such an exceedingly small amount of people that there simply is no price point at which these services could...

They also wants to close the CBC and everyone working there knows what awaits them once he is in power. He has not shown anything like that towards VIA or HFR and the criticisms he has of the CBC don’t apply here (as HFR will be run by the private sector and it’s not competing against private...

If you narrow down the options to “true HSR or bust”, then the answer will certainly be the latter. However, I trust the Conservative party to curtail both, the geographical and technological scope, until the taxpayer price tag becomes less offensive. I wouldn’t count on HFR reaching Quebec City...

But you don’t understand: it’s not party policy documents or newspaper articles which teach you about a party’s intentions, but some randos’ conspiracy theories on forums like this one… /s

Where VIA directly competes with private operators, this is not an unreasonable expectation and where it does (i.e., the Corridor or tourism-focused services during the summer months in the Rockies), it already operates profitable (~130% recovery of direct costs pre-COVID for the Corridor...

Which would be a totally reasonable position when you are (soon) trusted with making spending decsisions for billions of taxpayer dollars and have probably (so far) barely more access to project/procurement informations than the overwhelming majority of us here. But anyways, this is what...

If I recall correctly, what PP told him was not that much different from what he says publicly: he finds the idea interesting, but needs more information to determine whether its benefits outweigh the costs to the taxpayer. Far from the ideological hostility some people here seem desperate to...

Can we move these ever-same political conspiracies to a different thread and instead focus on facts and actual evidence here?