The Great Canadian Transit Thread

[GreaterMontréal]

Station de métro McGill, Montréal. by Emmanuel Dor, sur Flickr

[WhipperSnapper]

really cool pic

[ssiguy]

God I wish Vancouver had stations like that. Compared to the Montreal Metro stations, Vancouver's are just glorified bus-stops.

[mistercorporate]

I hope Ontario sues the crap out of Bombardier for being years late with all their deliveries. We deserve lots of free vehicles for their shoddy project management. That being said, downtown Montreal has hands down the sexiest metro stations in Canada, too many damn stairs though. I suppose it's the price one pays for avoiding cold ass open air stations like Rosedale.

[WhipperSnapper]

Well, why do we keep ordering from them? I heard stories about the questionable reliability and extra maintainance of the T1s (when they came out) and the T35s

[WhipperSnapper]

Originally Posted by mistercorporate

I hope Ontario sues the crap out of Bombardier for being years late with all their deliveries. We deserve lots of free vehicles for their shoddy project management. That being said, downtown Montreal has hands down the sexiest metro stations in Canada, too many damn stairs though. I suppose it's the price one pays for avoiding cold ass open air stations like Rosedale.

Rosedale will be decked over in due time.

I love how so many of the old road bridges are still complete with their railings eventhough the open cut was decked over decades ago.

[caltrane74]

Getting 20-30 free LRV's/Streetcars would be worth the delay agro Bombardier has put us through..

[niwell]

Originally Posted by WhipperSnapper

Rosedale will be decked over in due time.

I love how so many of the old road bridges are still complete with their railings eventhough the open cut was decked over decades ago.

Not really transit related but we still have a bridge railing from one that was filled in almost a century ago!

https://goo.gl/maps/3TxfdMU87Yz

[ClaytonA]

Project background:

http://www.metrolinx.com/en/projectsandprograms/transitexpansionprojects/hurontario_lrt.aspx

http://renewcanada.net/2016/rfq-issued-for-hurontario-lrt/

Infrastructure Ontario (IO) and Metrolinx have issued a request for qualifications (RFQ) for a vendor to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the Hurontario LRT project, and procure a fleet of light rail vehicles.

The new LRT line will bring 20 kilometres of new, dedicated rapid transit between Port Credit GO Station in Mississauga and the Gateway Terminal at Steeles Ave. in Brampton. It will serve 22 surface stops connecting one urban growth centre, four mobility hubs, two GO Transit rail lines and a number of interchange stops with Brampton and Mississauga transit.

...

The project currently has an estimated budget of $1.6 billion and is scheduled for completion in 2022.

[isaidso]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

That's the plan. When bombardier finally admitted to the problem and said it would take a while to get production ramped up in the spring, they started building an extra facility to speed production. They are investing additional capital into the project to actually fix the issue, instead of just stringing the ttc along while they didn't really do anything like they did for the first year of deliveries.

It's just mind boggling that a big multi-national that's been around a very long time can't execute in their core competency. Trains is what they do. Being able to build them on time is something you'd think they could do with their eyes closed. Get it together Bombardier. Too much of this country's industrial aspirations are tied up in you to be screwing up like this.

[ClaytonA]

Confederation Line Phase 2 has secured all it's funding, in design.
Hurontario is RFQ
REM is missing federal funding, design.
Hamilton needs city approval and has secured all it's funding.
Vancouver/Surrey needs local and official provincial funding, in planning.
Calgary needs official provincial funding, in planning/design.
Sheppard is funded and under design
Finch west LRT will have first contract award in 2017.
GO RER or ? unfunded, in planning.
Edmonton just got federal money to begin planning their next LRT phase.
Winnipeg? Next BRT phase?
Saskatoon has plans in the distant future for BRT.
London, ON is looking for BRT funding.
Kitchener-Waterloo is looking for ION phase 2 funding.
Victoria, BC has plans but no official push for extending the BRT dedicated lane past Uptown. No funding.
Halifax isn't doing much-transit priority measures in next five years, funded?

What am I missing?

[caltrane74]

Downtown Relief Line ...

[lrt's friend]

Originally Posted by ClaytonA

Project background:

http://www.metrolinx.com/en/projectsandprograms/transitexpansionprojects/hurontario_lrt.aspx

http://renewcanada.net/2016/rfq-issued-for-hurontario-lrt/

So, we are proceeding with the Hurontario project while the City of Brampton sits on its hands doing nothing?

[Innsertnamehere]

RER is entirely funded.

Sheppard is essentially on hold indefinitely. the province claims it is waiting until after Finch is done before moving on to Sheppard.. so if it happens at all it will be mid-late 2020's. There is no work on the file currently.

Finch from my understanding is supposed to start construction before the end of 2017.


Brampton is studying the Hurontario LRT (very messy), and is also studying a Queen Street BRT/LRT.

Yonge Subway Extension has funding for detailed design too.

[matt602]

Contrary to what some councilors are saying, Hamilton's LRT is fully funded AND approved. Construction tenders go out in just over a year. Construction starts in 2019.

[lrt's friend]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

RER is entirely funded.

Sheppard is essentially on hold indefinitely. the province claims it is waiting until after Finch is done before moving on to Sheppard.. so if it happens at all it will be mid-late 2020's. There is no work on the file currently.

Finch from my understanding is supposed to start construction before the end of 2017.


Brampton is studying the Hurontario LRT (very messy), and is also studying a Queen Street BRT/LRT.

Yonge Subway Extension has funding for detailed design too.

But surely this won't go beyond the design phase until after they build a first phase of the Downtown Relief Line.

[Innsertnamehere]

What I likely see happening is that both of them get built at the same time. There is a lot of political pressure for the extension, but the TTC would probably straight up refuse to run trains on it until the DRL is built.

[p_xavier]

CDPQi has confirmed for the Montreal REM, that while trains will be 80m, the stations will be made for 5 cars, so 100m. That's good news.

[someone123]

Halifax's transit authority has helpfully revised their concise and elegant route map:


http://www.halifax.ca/transit/Schedules/documents/routemap.pdf

I could be wrong but sadly I think this is after a year-long attempt to simplify routes and move to a transfer-based system. They had a huge list of official outstanding requests like "please can you have the airport express bus make an arbitrary detour into my low-density subdivision".

[Nouvellecosse]

There's no change to the routes in that map, so if it's after, then it must be after making the decision to abandon any changes.

The proposed changes may not have been revolutionary, but they were certainly significant and would be very noticeable on any map.