steveintoronto
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Exactly. Now please re-read what I wrote and why. You keep making my point.In Toronto? One might hope so - but you have no evidence of that, and it contrasts with stuff coming out of Metrolinx.
All moot....the *HEADWAY* remains 2.5 minutes later being reduced to 2 minutes on the *central section*. That's east of Paddington, where the present Heathrow Express now terminates. Heathrow Express' lease is up on their storage and maintenance shed. The new Heathrow service run by Great Western, Heathrow Connect, will run through the central section and stop at each station. It will take ten minutes longer from Paddington to Heathrow, at less than half the price. But it matters not. The point is *achievable headway* and how other cities are not only planning to do this, some have been doing it for decades.I was talking about GO. There's express trains now on the RER routes, which will continue.
Not sure what your comment about Heathrow Express is based on - I haven't seen any definitive decision that there still won't be express trains between Heathrow T2T3 and Paddington. I'm not sure the relevance either, as they have indicated there will still be non-stop express between the Elizabeth Line stations of Reading and Paddington.
What's Toronto's problem besides being Toronto?
[...]
On average, the MRT-3 runs 20 trains daily at a speed of at least 40 kilometers per hour with a headway of 4.5 minutes. Since the start of the month, the number of passengers taking the train line which runs from Taft in Pasay City to North Avenue in Quezon City has averaged up to 441,000 every day.
Manalo said that with the upgrade, they would be able to accommodate up to 800,000 passengers daily and run the trains at 60 kph with a headway of just 2.5 minutes.
[...]
http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/842420/mrt-eyes-bigger-capacity-faster-trains-in-2017
Guess where? Manila! A Third World country...and the Philippines are far from being the only one.
But not Toronto. It's beyond pathetic...
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