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  1. T3G

    VIA Rail

    Fact check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail#/media/File:High_Speed_Railroad_Map_of_Europe.svg
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    How would Michigan lefts have helped, except in eliminating the nonsensical practice of prioritizing left turning cars over transit vehicles? If anything, it would make the problem worse, from the perspective of the LRT, because now you've just doubled the number of possible collision points...
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    Mississauga Toronto | Hurontario-Main Line 10 LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    I've never heard anyone mention the type of transit when giving directions, except in New York where they say take the X train, nor do I specify the transit type myself when I give directions. That's what I'm talking about. At any rate, relying on someone spelling out the type of transit when...
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    Mississauga Toronto | Hurontario-Main Line 10 LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx

    It's not uncommon for people saying, whether it be about a bus or rail service, "oh, take the (insert route number here)". It is definitely far more irregular to hear "take bus 10" or "take line 10".
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    Homelessness on GTA Transit (catch all)

    If you can't be civil, don't bother contributing.
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    Homelessness on GTA Transit (catch all)

    No, the people you are seeing strung out drugs are only a small portion of the homeless, the visible minority. There are many, MANY more who are living in shelters, in cars, crashing with friends or relatives because they've been priced out. And if we want to actually tackle the problem of...
  7. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    All of this can also happen on the subway network. It's one of the disadvantages of rail networks. Again, as previously stated, if you have quasi competent dispatchers, it's not a concern. It is possible to share an opinion on an LRT line without acting like the sky will fall because a short...
  8. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    I wasn't referring to your comment - the only reply I made to the capacity concern was thus: I was replying to the "concerns" about bunching.
  9. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    I will add this: the two main causes of bunching at the TTC are either blockages, either caused by one vehicle on the line being blocked either by itself or something interfering with it, whether it be another vehicle, a trespasser, a passenger with a medical emergency on board, etc. As you...
  10. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    The planned hourly capacity for the line is 15,000 pphpd, so if the demand literally doubled, it would still be well within tolerances. https://web.archive.org/web/20200803181141/http://thecrosstown.ca/the-project/fact-sheets/eglinton-crosstown You are aware that the Crosstown is operating...
  11. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    No, it's just used to discredit the choice of LRT for the corridor.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    How can there be software defects, if we've been using the same cars on the downtown network for 10 years and ION for the last 5? What on earth are they doing?
  13. T3G

    GO Transit Fleet Equipment and other

    Will they be assigned to specific trains, as the current ones on the Kitchener line were, or will they run on an as-needed basis?
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s

    So MiWay lines 1-9, and 11+ are going to be bus routes, but the 10 is going to be a rapid transit line, because... ??? If matching the city's numbering scheme is not the name of the game here, why did they bother to renumber the 5 Avenue Road and 6 Bay buses a few years back to make space for...
  15. T3G

    GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

    Sorry, is this a problem you are drawing attention to and trying to change, or a problem you are trying to add to and make worse? Because the statement "then all the street car fanatics are going to want to put a stop at every intersection" very heavily suggests the latter. For my part, since...
  16. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s

    It's also disingenuous to suggest that just because a person or company is doing something for the right reason, they are exempt from criticism. One can both be pro building transit, and also accept that Metrolinx couldn't be trusted to build a lemonade stand. These stances are not...
  17. T3G

    Danforth Line 2 Scarborough Subway Extension

    The reason for the subway being built to TTC gauge took me all of 10 seconds to find on Wikipedia: Relying on overbuilt trains being able to absorb crashing into one another doesn't sound like a higher standard, it sounds like the exact opposite. Why are so many of our trains expected to...
  18. T3G

    Danforth Line 2 Scarborough Subway Extension

    Point number 8 on your list is "not using off the shelf stuff", and pointing out specifically TTC gauge as being the problem. The people who rage against legacy transit systems for not using modern off the shelf stuff always seem to conveniently ignore how rebuilding the entire network to...
  19. T3G

    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s

    https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hyperbole I'm not sure why you're making such a big deal out of this as though people don't use silly exaggerations to voice their displeasure with the things that they see day in, day out. If I call someone a grammar nazi or a tinpot dictator for doing something...
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    Toronto Toronto | Ontario Line 3 | ?m | ?s

    It looks like Belgium during World War I.

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