Posted Jan 31, 2013, 8:51 PM
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A few thoughts, having been away for a while.
The comment about Cline operating costs, this includes the debt servicing and is shown as one cost borne to Tlink... The actual operating cost minus debt is obviously less than M and E lines combined.
I thought we read somewhere thAt the new 300series Bombrdier cars would like serve the Expo Line. Obviously they can interline but I thought that was the operating plan. Do they not have issues at the OMC with regards to servicing 4car trains? I wonder how they will work around this with a 4 car married-consist.
I would think a more sensible approach would be to order 3car trains that could then be mated to 2car MKIIs to maximize platform length. This is an idea TLink describes in one of their capacity upgrade plans yet they seem to have gone another route.
I wouldn't be surprised if we see a lot of MkIs on the Evergreen segment with higher capacity MKIIs and 300-inovias ( can we call these MKIIIs?) on Expo line.
Lastly, it is great to see that after years of talk this segment of Skytrain is FINALLY being built.
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