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It is lighter, but not by a significant amount For instance, the addition of the diesel drivetrains in the 5-car British Class 800...

In this same vein..... I took the Eglinton bus from Kennedy to Mount Pleasant yesterday afternoon. We got passed by at least 2 LRVs on...

At the risk of sounding like I've got an Obama-era hangover, faster transit is generally better than slower transit, but transit doesn't...

You realize that this is how almost every single other HSR works around the world, right? You think that a TGV runs every single mile...

They've initiated the poor weather mode on the ATC/ATO, which limits top speeds and lowers braking forces on the open-cut sections of...

It was until they added the third unit to the sets. Correct. Dan

I get that. But if the bus runs more frequently, and thus they don't have to stand at a stop for as long, that also affects one's trip...

No, the issue is that the structure underneath the trainshed and tracks is hollow. Each track is running on girders that span this...

The Sarnia trains run through to and from Ottawa - they need to be long trainsets. Dan

It won't necessarily be slower. One of the changes happening is that there will be a full Leslie route from Danforth to Sheppard via...

You would think so. But my experience has been most people are all too happy to put mentally ill people in jail. Or if I’m being...

That's not masking. Only the very end of the nose of the PHIs. The rest is steel. Dan

Some of the route changes have already been done. There are a number of new and extended routes already running, such as the 164 and...

Who ever told you that was not being entirely truthful. They are going up to the BCR because none of the Metrolinx locations are ready...

The last buses that the TTC bought that were designed to last 18 years were the Orion VIIs, and even then there was a pretty big...