It's no more than 4 trains an hour now at Pickering, and GO still can't integrate even the regular speed VIA trains without delays. They aren't spending tens of billions of $ to avoid the freight railways, and then have Metrolinx ***** them up the ***. Besides, as day-1 Stouffville service is...

The only alignment that's been discussed that even enters Markham is CP's Peterborough track (the Havelock subdivision) - and that only clips the SE corner, being entirely east of Donald Cousens Parkway, and mostly in the Rouge National Park. There used to be a station at Locust Hill, if I...

I agree. Though will the new bridges and grade separations on the CP line be worse and more expensive than the work necessary for the Kennedy route - especially additional track and widening overpasses from Scarborough GO to Agincourt? Historically the HSR option would have used the option for...

I agree that the designation wouldn't be 413. Which would make an extension of either painful. They seldom have gone far outside the sequential range - the only egregious one was 427. I don't see a 488. Next number up is probably 414 - I see nothing that would let them save that (unlike 408...

They should be more worried about the platform length than the platform height. Though surely it's moot with the whole thing slated for redevelopment - they can build what they want when the Skywalk get's knocked down.

Planning I expect. I mean they did extend the western terminus from University to Dufferin - so that's probably more beneficial anyhow.

Ah ... yes, the joys of real-world data. You see weird stuff like that on the streetcar lines, when two vehicles meet nose to nose somewhere (or at the terminal), and the drivers changes vehicle, and they swap run numbers. Or if the vehicle is running over an hour behind schedule, that the...

Depends. It's about 25-km as the crow flies to Durham (Scarborough is huge!). If you were heading west, I'd agree with that. But if you look at HS1 in London, the first station (that none of the long-distance high-speed trains stop at) is only at the 8-km mark, still within Greater London. Now...

That's what I hear construction foreperson's saying when I say "Don't you need to wear safety equipment on a worksite". Sounds more like a FOAD.

Why too many - when if you look around the world, you see many more? Obviously the fastest trains will not stop at every station. Why make it difficult to do a high speed commuter run to (say if on the Lakeshore) to Port Hope, with stops at East Harbour, Pickering, and Oshawa (for example - and...

That's certainly what the new Birmingham to London high speed line is doing. As far as I know, it won't even run through on regular speed lines from the more suburban terminus (I doubt there's the capacity). There's plans to extend it into Euston station (which isn't ideal, with poor...

What do they say when you speak up?

When I was looking randomly at some data a while ago, I think you could see a difference between a Monday and a Tuesday. What does Tuesday data look like. Kudos to @T3G for providing actual data!

Looking at other countries. In South Korea there's 3 HSR stations in Seoul on the line from Seoul to Busan, connecting to the Seoul subway system. The line is about 430 km long, with 11 stations. Definitely not downtown to downtown. You also get high-speed 300 km/hr commuter trains. Such as on...

Is it though? I can see the union being surprised that RSD has finished, and they still haven't seen the report for the accident or the RSD results yet. Asking for it, and finding out they won't see it until after the line has opened (if ever). That's actually the timeline I'd expect, rather...

Did I really need to put a smiley in? Do people need laugh tracks?

In the years that passed since the original training, they probably need to replace the retirees - and those who have died from old age.

I always feel that the Bloor-Danforth night bus is faster than the subway - because it stops less, especially east of Sherbourne.

You'd imagine they would have. But they didn't - other than the 6 LEDs for the Vaughan extension that hadn't opened when these trains arrived, or this photo taken. Those "extra" holes you see are screws. I suppose there's enough lights now from the old Line 3 to cobble something ugly...

@nfitz my sweet summer child, the official RSZ isn't accurate... Yes, in theory, there aren't that many RSZs but what is there to explain @6ixGod post ... There's no need to be condescending. Nothing explains 6ixGod's post. I'm on Line 2 all the time, and I simply don't observed this. Yes...