CPKC and Metrolinx could learn from the BNSF racetrack. And BNSF has way more freight traffic on this line than probably any CP line in eastern Canada.

I find it hard to be optimistic about the future of VIA's long distance services under a conservative government. Again, this is all speculation (and PP has released no policy proposals), but going by what various CPC aligned commentators and Poilievre surrogates have been talking about...

I unfortunately wouldn't expect a lot of capital funding for any transit projects under a Poilievre government though, given how he's a hardcore fiscal conservative who will be laser focused on spending cuts. One also shouldn't underestimate how much the CPC base has become radicalized against...

At least with Waterloo they seem to be targeting business travelers and frequent fliers who otherwise would be using car service or Uber to get to YYZ. The bus legs are treated just like any other flight by AC. This means your connection is protected, so if there's a crash on the 401 or...

That hasn't been highway 3 since the mid 90s Mike Harris downloading. And parts of it were actually washed out years ago and still never rebuilt (though officially the closure is still "temporary").

It looks like there's a planned connection to the Belleville sub (it's not clear whether this means a direct connection or an unloading track, though FWIW the Crosstown is directly connected to the MacTier sub). Not sure if this has already been discussed in the ~1500 previous pages. If the...

If major work is needed on the original open cut section of the Yonge line, I wonder if after the Crosstown LRT opens if it would be worth it to do a 3-4 month total closure from Bloor to Eglinton to allow for 24/7 work. Preferably in the summer when ridership is lower. The Crosstown from...

All or almost all the ticket machines along the Spadina streetcar line have been destroyed by vandals and are basically just abandoned in place now.

Nope, the Highway 2A stub is the other one.

It looks like that schedule would require 2 trainsets to operate, which seems about right seeing how ONR bought 3 (so one spare), assuming frequencies are daily. It does make the most sense given the demand patterns and intended use cases for this service, but waiting for a train in Temagami in...

More like they're nostalgic for it and would bring it back if they could. The debate around the LRT was actually fairly divisive (at least by the standards of a midsize Ontario city in 2008), and was often about what kind of place KW should be rather than the utility of the LRT itself. Lots of...

In the early 00s, a few years before the big service increases and when GRT was still mostly operating the services it inherited from the Kitchener and Cambridge transit systems, the only bus route that actually entered the U of W campus on late evenings and Sundays was one branch of route 7...

The big corridor cuts in 1990 were the trains on the CN back mainline (Guelph sub through KW and Stratford, and then Strathroy sub to Sarnia), which went from 5 to 3 trains a day (1 of these 3 turned in London too I think), and Niagara, which went from, IIRC 4 trains to 2. Metrolinx has...

It's the electronics themselves that are old, the system was built in the 80s by ITT/Lorenz and is obsolete. The TTC has budgeted for a replacement for years but this keeps getting deferred. More modern systems have a lot of advantages, like being able to differentiate between different...

I don't think Hamilton Street Railway produces a system map anymore either. With rising costs, I can unfortunately see more transit agencies doing this, professional cartography is expensive. Even GRT's current map looks like it was exported automatically from a GIS package (the old GRT map was...

Probably never, seeing how it would require houses to be expropriated. This curve was never built because there were no services that needed it, which is still true outside of rare VIA diversions. Even the west-to-north curve at SniderDoncaster was only added in the 90s, after CN closed the...

If GO can't add weekend train service they should split the busiest bus trips into two trips. One that originates at University of Waterloo and runs express via Highway 85, and one that short originates in downtown Kitchener. And the reverse for the busiest westbound trips.

The TTC is absolutely paranoid about car streetcar collisions, and they are particularly afraid of collisions where cars run red lights and the streetcar is unable to stop in time. Since the TTC is self insured, these collisions often result in long legal battles that cost the TTC money.

REM is more like BART or the Washington Metro - a hybrid metro/commuter rail system. If the GO-ALRT system had been built it would have been very similar to what Montreal is getting now.

Somewhat related, but if Metrolinx can't add weekend train service to Kitchener they are going to have to start operating extra sections on route 30 bus trips like Greyhound used to do, as its increasingly common for people to get stuck waiting for multiple buses. I wonder if anyone has been...