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Sure, but selling the giant car parks to developpers for conversion to TODs will generate much more funds for further transit expansions...
Oct 1, 2025
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And the point of many who are responding to you is..... electrification is not an end in its self. Not having it is not a pain point...
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How do you manage to get everything so factually wrong? The Long Island Railroad does not have any overhead catenary. The locos that...
Oct 1, 2025
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There is a good reason why the number of people responding to this sad spammer is constantly dwindling. The “Ignore” function really...
Sep 30, 2025
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I was out to see No 60/50 and 61 today, hoping to video them flying through Kingston. But with the last-minute reprieve, it was the...
Sep 29, 2025
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Just speculating here, but the two factors usually consuming capacity are: Heterogeneity of average speed between different speed...
Sep 29, 2025
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Indeed, kicking everyone from intermediate stations off the train only to still stop at intermediate stations is a massive slap in the...
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You think that's bad, the last train of the day from Montreal to Ottawa departs at 6:50pm! It makes it a nuisance to me to use the train...
Sep 29, 2025
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This delay of the express train pilot makes VIA look like the gang that can't shoot straight. Now they have messed around a bunch of...
Sep 29, 2025
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It could be an LRC set, or a Venture set that has 32 axles. Those are not subject to the speed restrictions. You can tell what type of...
Sep 28, 2025
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Haven‘t seen any other confirmation yet, but really not impressed, if true: https://groups.io/g/Canadian-Passenger-Rail/message/102172
Sep 28, 2025
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Clearly I know that already, given that I was talking about the elimination of the stop in Kingston. There were things that were valid...
Sep 28, 2025
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Dan‘s link has the answer to this particular concern expressed by @reaperexpress, even if it of course doesn’t sufficiently address any...
Sep 27, 2025
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Like @Urban Sky said, the main bottlenecks are in places that would likely be entirely bypassed by HSR (e.g. Smiths Falls), so it...
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I think that the implementation of Via's morning non-stop train to Montreal (Train 60) is problematic for a couple reasons. First of...
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