Certainly not impossible, but that would imply a fifth consecutive liberal election victories and up to 18 consecutive years of liberal rule (i.e., 2015-2033)… ALTO will not be “90s train tech” (if it ever get’s built): Nobody is procurring ICE1, e300 or TGV Réseau trainsets. ETCS might have...

They are executing a minboggling amount of things, on the GO Corridors and elsewhere. Every single year. You just have to open your eyes, put your fingers out of your ears stop comparing current progress solely against a timeline which just never was feasible, let alone: realistic…

Cool story, bro, Certainly an interesting topic for the “General railway discussions” thread, but don’t forget to notify us once such a solution has been implemented on a scale and context remotely relevant for GO and thus the discussion in this thread here…

Again, have we been publicly given any reason to believe that Ontario would have appetite to adopt a novel electrification technology which has not yet been implemented at any comparable scale? Because if it hasn’t, we should first identify concrete applications elsewhere in the world and...

I’m not exactly sure what you are suggesting here, but unless such technology is already in use at a different rail network, you can forget about it because nobody ain’t is going to use novel technologies on such a complex network like GO’s…

Has there been any statement from Ontario regarding ALTO? As long as the federal government advances the project without demanding Ontario to chip in, they would be stupid to make noise…

Your aggressive obsession with my person borders on harrassment. If you are unable or unwilling to engage in a civil and respectful discussion, then maybe it‘s time that the moderators intervene here. I‘m all up for open and passionate discussions, but this kind of hostile interaction and...

I really don‘t know what your problem here is and what circumstances of life bring you in such a destructive mindest, but going outside and taking a fresh breathe of air might work wonders. (It often did the same with me!)

Sorry, I stopped skimming over your ridiculously wordy post when you called me „arrogant“ and „ignorant“. If you had anything of substance to say, you wouldn’t write incoherent and irrelevant essays about questions nobody was asking…

The question (outside the Q-W corridor, at least) is always: what could a train achieve that a bus could not achieve at a fraction of the required operating subsidy (let alone: upfront investment)?

Because we don’t have a rail regulator which actually acts like one and sets minimum standards for what host railroads may or may not install and what kind of rolling stock they have to safely detect at what speeds. Red tape comes at a price, but sometimes the lack of red tape comes at an even...

I suspect that the part you are not seeing is that resources (especially in the rail engineering industry) are not finite and that it’s therefore often not advisable to waste them on projects which alter track alignments but without being able yet to bring them into their final alignment (either...

Why does it matter? The fact remains that Toronto is (and will remain for the foreseeable future) moving faster than anyone else in North America. The vision seems to be still relatively unchanged, just the timeline and initial scopes have been adjusted to better align with the constraints of...

I invite you to identify a city in North America which has made more progress and is more comitted than Toronto to narrow the gap to European or Asian Tier-1 cities…

Exactly (and I‘m saying this as one of the consultants who worked on various ML projects): moving expertise and capabilities in-house makes absolutely sense once you‘ve reached a project size Metrolinx very comfortably exceeds (and are prepared to pay salaries which acknowledge the market...

How about phrasing a kind request so that it actually sounds like a kind request? 🤷‍♂️

Not sure if this isn’t just a misconception, but my understanding is that nothing of the status of Maritime Bus in Quebec has changed, but that Maritime Bus insists on operating all the way to Quebec City rather than forcing its passengers in Rivières-du-Loup in the dead of the night. Therefore...

I‘m not impressed by rail systems which favor one type of rail transport while severely neglecting or outrightly ignoring the other, regardless of whether that cuts against passenger rail (like in North America and Australia) or freight rail (like in Japan and France). The real art is to allow...

If we rather look at freight rail (and the volumes transported), we are world class and Japan is the developping country…

Agreed, let‘s get back on topic: does anyone remember what were we discussing in this thread before it got hijacked?