Adding trains into the line 2 schedule is physically impossible due to the locations and lengths of the single-track segments, but storing a train on the second platform could be useful as a spare during peaks (when a cancelled trip would have extra-severe consequences). In the further future...

I cycled across the bridge yesterday and noticed that the rails are still there, they just built a new wooden deck on top of the tracks. The conversion project also included structural upgrades to enable rail service to be restored in the future. The U-shaped extension of Bayview station does...

Amazing reporting, thanks! Were you able to see how busy the GO trains were? Reports after the stray kids concert indicated they were departing half-empty

I'd tell you to do the basic arithmetic with realistic numbers to calculate how long the subway would take to clear the 40000 concert goers but you don't even need to because I already did so on the previous page.

Yes you are wrong. The number of people heading south after the concert far exceeds the capacity of the subway. The article also fails to mention that those extra trains and schedule adjustments are the same ones that have already been in place for previous concerts.

Because they typically add them in response to a specific surge (e.g. to Niagara on weekend mornings, to Brampton on weekday evenings), and the coaches stay on the train for the entire day, including times when there is no major surge of bikes. My guess is they were observing overcrowding of...

Here's the previous situation. Photo from 2021 (I think this is unchanged since the station opening in 2017): By 2025 the railings had been removed. (photo by Dillan Payne via Wikipedia) I assume the purpose of the construction is to extend the accessibility platform out to the (future)...

It's wild to hear that people are claiming the Chargers were never intended to operate with 7 coaches. Like you mentioned, there had always been proposed configurations with 7 coaches. I'm sure acceleration is underwhelming with the longer consist, but the Toronto-Montreal express trains don't...

It continued much later than that. One time in 2014 when I was taking Coach Canada from Hamilton Centre to St Catharines terminal I inadvertently booked a ticket on a local trip. It was much slower than the QEW express trips though admittedly much more scenic.

This seems like an excellent initiative. Expanding service to cover the entire region will definitely help generate political support for NRT from the municipalities it doesn't currently serve. The service model with regional route connecting with on-demand service areas is a good way to provide...

Sounds like 311 is broken. Can you submit a 311 about 311?

Even in northern communities there are plenty of people without access to a vehicle (teenageers, elderly, low-income, disabilities, etc). Especially for intercity trips where leaving one's car at the station is not very desirable. At most stations or airports, long-term parking is not free...

The ROW between Porcupine and Schumacher seems intact based on the aerial imagery, but once they've gone through the expense of building a station in Porcupine I doubt they'd do that all over again in Schumacher. Even just the one station is a pretty dubious cost/benefit for just one train per...

If they don't want to install sidewalks, that's fine, but it means that they need to design the road such that cars can't go more than about 10 km/h Note the traffic calming rocks:

A 12-car GO Train has 1800 seats, and a crush load of about 3000 people. So the post-concert train service (every 10 minutes) has a capacity of 18 000 people per hour, which is about the same as each direction of the subway (given that it takes a couple minutes to fill up each subway train, so...

The Board Report on Streetcar Stop Rationalization proposed to remove 35 one-way stops (equivalent to 17.5 pairs) and last I checked, 28 had been removed (equivalent to 14 pairs). Part of the problem is that councillors had already vetoed some of the removals so they never even made it into the...

It was not a reasonable proposal because UP Express has a 10 mph speed restriction through platforms so the proposed express service would only save two minutes compared to the existing service. The cost in terms of increased complexity and reduced frequency would have definitely exceeded the...

Selecting cameras over traffic calming purely for financial reasons supports the public perception that they are a cash grab. Rather than spending the money to make the road feel slower, they'd rather give tickets to the vast majority of people driving down the street. In my opinion, they...

3 kilometres per pico-hour is 3 000 000 000 000 km/h, which is 3000 times the speed of light. That seems like a very generous threshold.

They're changing the schedule for Agincourt and stations north, which means that the time was added between Kennedy and Agincourt It's most intuitive if you think of a northbound train: Union: same time as usual Kennedy: same time as usual Agincourt: later than usual Milliken: later than usual etc.