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  1. Metroscapes

    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    So assuming this goes to Union, I find the idea of using a brand new right-of-way out of Toronto pretty wacky. To me, the two alternative existing rail corridor routes (Kingston-Uxbridge / Bala-Don Branch-North Toronto) are suitable and feasible, albeit tedious to buy / expropriate slices of...
  2. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    They're used coming out of Square One at Centre View / Mavis, as well as for the ION buses in Cambridge.
  3. Metroscapes

    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    I second this. UP suffers from being saddled with providing intermediate stops more appropriate for GO.
  4. Metroscapes

    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    I'm only making a point that there's enough about it that it makes sense to some people, even if not many of them are here on UT, and even if that still makes it wrong. Is that factoring in the Ontario Line though? I vaguely recall Relief Line projections greatly reducing overcrowding issues...
  5. Metroscapes

    Alto - High Speed Rail (Toronto-Quebec City)

    Sorry, showing up late to this thread, so don't take these as direct replies so much as springboards for my points. Counterpoint is that Yonge and Eglinton can be generally defined as midtown, and including St Clair. Summerhill is a grey boundary IMO. Summerhill has long been contemplated as a...
  6. Metroscapes

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Nobody puts Baby in the corner.
  7. Metroscapes

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Spotted 647 during my walk past Whitby RMF today.
  8. Metroscapes

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Looking at CPTDB wiki, it's hard to say. 874-887 are a group of 14 F59PHI series, and the one on the last page is part of that series (877). But I don't know enough about locos to know if it's worth discounting the pre-1994 PH series (851-873) outside of what's noted as being sold to NCDOT...
  9. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Lots of suggested improvements to this route to serve Six Nations, but just re-quoting this for emphasis.
  10. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    I gave a crack at it, you can view it here. This is a complete guess, maybe tomorrow we'll learn more.
  11. Metroscapes

    Toronto Toronto | Bloor–Danforth Line 2 Scarborough Subway Extension | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    I don't understand why they need to remove trees near a waterway, which should be avoided as a mitigation measure. I get that it's an urbanized channel, but isn't that all the more reason to protect what's there? Unless this is part of an overall restoration of that reach of the creek, I don't...
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    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Thanks for posting Skyline, I hadn't known about this. To be clear, the TSB investigation is ongoing. Anyone who's read a TSB report knows how amazingly thorough it is in determining all factors in an incident, big and small. And while they don't assign fault or point fingers, they do lay out...
  13. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    The replacement of bridges along Lakeshore West between Exhibition and Parkside was probably a bit impetus, it was critical to detour trains. Two or three if them did not have sufficient clearance for electrification, and combined with their deterioration, I think things came to a head.
  14. Metroscapes

    GO Transit: Construction Projects (Metrolinx, various)

    This was going to be my guess, judging by the investigation area. If they were investigating a wye, the work are would...look like a wye.
  15. Metroscapes

    General railway discussions

    I checked out the built form around the line and it's not shocking Northstar doesn't have big ridership. Lots of highways and stroads, single-family homes for miles.
  16. Metroscapes

    407 Rail Freight Bypass/The Missing Link

    Trying to tackle this best I can. Numbered them for ease. 1 - East of Heritage Road. Given the close proximity of the two creeks and groundwater issues the would likely stem from an underpass, I'd say it'd go over. 2 - It doesn't it's to the east. 3 and 4 - I have to come back to this, I...
  17. Metroscapes

    407 Rail Freight Bypass/The Missing Link

    I feel like if I spent an evening behind my home desktop in GIS, I could give you some ballparks on some of these. But as much as we like to yell at napkin plans, understanding that a railway ROW will have less tolerance for vertical grade change than a highway ROW, the horizontal curvature is...
  18. Metroscapes

    GO 2.0 Expansion Plan

    You're still thinking too small. Maybe it's GO 3.0 but a provincial agency should be providing provincial service to more of the province IMO. Not trying to derail the thread here but just making that statement.
  19. Metroscapes

    407 Rail Freight Bypass/The Missing Link

    This was a draft from quite a few months ago. The red is rail lines, the tan is the 413, based on the EA drawings.
  20. Metroscapes

    GO 2.0 Expansion Plan

    Just throwing out the cautionary note (for all) that service to London should not be given a Toronto frame. A ton of traffic on VIA trains was students and others between London and K-W/Kitchener.

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