denfromoakvillemilton
Senior Member
Nice to see! Hopefully in 2018 we can all take a ride to Mount Joy and back.
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Nice to see! Hopefully in 2018 we can all take a ride to Mount Joy and back.
Nice to see! Hopefully in 2018 we can all take a ride to Mount Joy and back.
That's not good or bad in itself - it's certainly closer to the model used in other places - but it's a huge transformation of GO Transit into a contracted-out business.
I wonder if Patrick Brown has figured this out. If you roll the TTC subway into this enterprise, as his platform suggests, it could be contracted out as well. I'm sure some eyebrows would be raised by the employee body, but maybe the TTC union sees this as a way to spread its jurisdiction into the GO realm.... they would represent subway workers via successor rights alongside Teamsters and others representing GO Operations. Sooner or later, somebody will raid somebody else.
You accidentally grabbed the wrong link....Got some video of the Northeast Corridor while traveling in the states this past weekend, this station (State Street in New Haven) is built exactly how I'd like to see Non-Core RER stations built. Well sheltered and with numerous schedule displays, but no large station buildings or shopping, most importantly no parking: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=P99bIYC8Ovk&show_mt=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P99bIYC8Ovk
sure, but it is limited to work being done inside Toronto, no? So it is not a full ReR update as much as a "the thing we will call SmarTrack" updateFinally found the time to chew through all the transit relevant documents that went to Toronto City Council for this week's Council meeting. Lo and behold, there was this Regional Express Rail Program Update, prepared by City staff.
It's a lot clearer, comprehensive, and more directly worded, than the stuff ML has been putting out.
A good read.
- Paul
am i doing something wrong? when I click that link I get:Got some video of the Northeast Corridor while traveling in the states this past weekend, this station (State Street in New Haven) is built exactly how I'd like to see Non-Core RER stations built. Well sheltered and with numerous schedule displays, but no large station buildings or shopping, most importantly no parking: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=P99bIYC8Ovk&show_mt=1
I already posted the correct, fixed link. See above.am i doing something wrong? when I click that link I get:
Am I the only one who finds it VERY odd that all the RER lines are to begin operations in 2025? We are talking over 200 km {what exactly is the total kms of RER anyway?} of electrified line with new vehicles GO/TTC have no experience in. Usually it takes many months to train the staff on the new vehicles, route, and safety runs on the route so expecting them to do all this at the same time for opening of the same year with 200km seems really weird. Even the Chinese would have a hard time opening 200km of new near-subway level service in one year. All of this is to say nothing of all the new vehicles arriving within a year of each other.