Well Metrolinx is apparently not looking for any! That's the problem! My point is just that even if they claim that it's impossible to add any more trains (which is dubious), it's still technically possible to add some bare-bones express service with the current number of trains. But like you...

Literally on the previous page:

Restoring peak period express service on LSE has no effect on OL construction nor Alto plans. The overtakes would occur east of Danforth, fully outside of the OL construction area (as is already the case for Via trains). The total number of trains through the construction zone doesn't need to...

Frustrating that Metrolinx keeps claiming that they need the third track in service between Danforth and Union to run any express trains on LSE. Which is an obvious lie given that there are already express trains running through that segment (Stouffville Line and Via).

Yes the whole area was designed more than a decade ago when they were planning the Georgetown South expansion project. See this post: This post: And this post:

Orléans Express does technically operate from Toronto to Montréal, but that's with a transfer in Ottawa so it's incredibly uncompetitive against the direct trip on Megabus. The Toronto leg is nominally operated by Red Arrow, but Keolis owns both brands so from a customer perspective, Orléans...

Sure they could request a permit, but I doubt the province would grant them since Megabus already has a permit for the Toronto-Montreal route, and Orléans Express already has permits for both of the Montreal-Québec routes (north shore and south shore). The route permit system that used to exist...

Technically Quebec isn't forbidding routes that originate outside the province, they just require those routes to get the same permits as operators within Quebec - which the Province generally doesn't grant if there's already an operator on the route. In practice they're definitely hindering the...

Yes, the staff is correct. Quebec still has route regulations similar to what Ontario used to have. So competition against the current bus carriers (primarily Orléans Express and Maheux) is actively discouraged by the government. Hence why there are 6 companies competing between Toronto and...

Yeah the website was referring specifically to the portion of the route where new or restored infrastructure is required for passenger service. Langstaff and Gormley are of course using existing station buildings as well.

What a beautiful station building! Too bad it apparently won't be used by the Northlander - Temagami is listed as a location to be served by a standard shelter. The only stations listed as using existing station buildings are North Bay, Englehart and Cochrane. Edit: the building is occupied by...

Ontario's first-past-the-post system elected the PCs with 3 majorities. However, the majority of Ontario voters did not vote for the PCs:

We're all playing into Ford's hand by seriously talking about the absurd proposal that nobody - including Ford - has any intention of actually building. Ford knows how to stay in headlines in the way he wants - diverting media attention from the other things he'd like them to ignore. We saw this...

Even a mini-high seems optimistic. Via's Siemens trains came with onboard wheelchair lifts, and I assume the ONR trains are the same. So given that a ground-level platform meets basic accessibility requirements I'm assuming that's what they'll build.

If you're saying the streetcar should always be 'next' once it's detected, then yes that's what I said in the first place. That's an inserted phase. All I'm saying is that changing the default order of phases doesn't matter, what matters is inserting a phase whenever the streetcar shows up.

There is no such thing as "first" in a signal cycle. It's a cycle. There is always a preceding movement, whether that be a left turn phase, parallel through phase or cross-street phase. Streetcars turning off of Spadina already have an inserted phase that comes up before left turns.

Changing the order of signal phases would accomplish nothing. If the streetcar gets 30 seconds of green every 90 seconds, the delay is the same regardless of what order the other signal phases are. The 14 seconds you save at the beginning of the phase are exactly cancelled out by 14 seconds lost...

If they use the express track that is still in service between Guildwood and Danforth, they can run the expresses at full speed. Based on the previous schedule, an express train can save 10 minutes, so it would depart Pickering 5 minutes behind a local and arrive Union 5 minutes ahead. Most...

Adding to @CapitalSeven 's point : The original line ran every 15 minutes with 2 trains (passing at Carleton). The second generation system doubled the fleet to 4 in service and the original idea was to run every 7.5 minutes, later scaled back to 10 minutes. But the tiny sidings made the line so...

I'm not sure 6 minutes is possible in practice. The travel time from Carleton Station to Dow's Lake station is just under 3 minutes, so the minimum theoretical headway is 6 minutes. But that provides no margin of error so in practice it would be unwise to schedule headways less than about 7.5...