Yes, current subway network length is 70.1 km. Line 6 Finch West certainly does not qualify to be called subway or metro. Line 5 Eglinton is a stretch, one could argue ~11km of it is fully grade separated, but its realistic capacity and reliability of service is unclear. Inclusion of Line 5...

Relative to population of the wider region, and the transit needs of the downtown core, Montreal does a much better job than Toronto for rapid and regional transit when you consider it is only 2/3rds the size at most. Higher ridership per capita should be your first hint. I'm not even going to...

At the risk of derailing this thread, I'll address the subway issue you have brought up. I firmly believe the issue is we have NOT invested enough in subways historically. Bear in mind, I actually do not think any part of Finch deserves a subway right now or shovels in ground for the next 10...

So far the project has taken 7 years and change for 50 km of fully automated metro with platform screen doors. All this for a price tag of around $125-140 million per km, which is cheaper than most recent Chinese projects and 1/5th the cost of Line 5 Eglinton*. By nearly every metric, REM is a...

It's mostly because we don't want an isolated tragedy that unfortunately highlights the imperfections in a well-designed, but imperfect system from discouraging people from using or supporting said system (REM). Obviously I hope the REM is improved. Braking should probably be automated rather...

Seconded... something that doubled its budget and cost $340 million per km just to run 10-12 off peak...

Brother, you mentioned it in this very thread, 75 minutes ago... Please at least do the bare minimum due diligence and Ctrl F....

What happened was a tragedy, regardless of who those young men were and what they intended. But let's be real here, if someone scaled a high fence and got hit by 401 traffic at night, most of us wouldn't bat an eye beyond feeling sorry for the family. In this case, they not only scaled two...

Yeah they have a habit of doing that, then when they get called out for doing it with receipts they delete their posts. Even though they make really good points occasionally, for some reason they can act purposefully contrarian at best, full blown antagonistic at worst. All while changing the...

I really appreciate that you actually broke down the numbers behind their nonsensical forecasts. Surprised you haven't been upvoted more.

There are Metrolinx employees lurking to enforce their strict opaqueness policy! If you spread open source intelligence that puts Mx at risk of not meeting their own deadline (Dec 7) and losing face again, they'll have to initiate a cover up!

Come on man, a simple google search would've immediately told you both are ETOPS certified. A220 ETOPS-180 in 2019 and EJ195-E2 (E2s only) ETOPS-120 in 2024. Everything else you said is basically correct though.

I regularly take Line 1 up and down both sides from Finch, North York Centre and Sheppard West. Mornings, midday, evenings, weekdays, weekends. Just last week I had a trip take 38 minutes from Union up to North York Centre minus 4 minutes due to having to hold at Davisville inexplicably, for a...

You clearly do not ride Line 1 on a daily basis. You probably got that 28-30 minute time from Google maps or other app which lists theoretical ETAs, which have not been adhered to for many, many years. I timed my own trip from North York Centre to Union at 34 minutes from train doors close to...

Métro de Queen seems like pure AI slop. The work of some youngin' intern perhaps.

Do you mind linking the posts you've seen indicating Eglinton 24 hours? I'm surprised just to hear this, but also a smidge hopeful there is some truth to this.

Of course you are correct, it's apples to oranges, Line 1 on Yonge is up to 71+ years old. So slow zones and station spacing are easily excusable. That's only part of the problem, the ATO programming of Line 1 is not conducive to high average speeds. Top operational speed is now only 75 km/h and...

The REM, inadvertently or not, conforms to most Chinese practices on metro construction. Arguably some of the world's best standards. 100km/h top speed. Wide station spacing. Longitudinal seating. Platform screen doors. Full automation. The average distance between REM stations is ~2.6 km as...

There is also a chance that I win the lottery by picking up a ticket off the ground tomorrow, a snowball's chance in hell, but still, a chance.

Assuming 14 minutes is correct, this proves that Line 5 Eglinton is scheduled to sit at red lights on the surface section for 6-7 minutes if smallspy's information about a 21 minute surface section runtime is accurate. I speculate Line 5 will sit at red lights anywhere from 4 to 9 minutes. Could...