The Great Canadian Transit Thread

[Innsertnamehere]

90 meter platforms. 11km of it is Grade seperated and will run at 90 second frequencies, 8km will run in median in the suburban stretch at 3 minute frequencies. in all shapes and forms it will operate as a subway for the grade seperated portion.

[Chadillaccc]

That's what everyone says about the grade separated portions of the Ctrain and Edmonton LRT too, no one gives a shit apparently. Doesn't make it any less an LRT, or any more a metro.

[Innsertnamehere]

^oh I know, I don't care about the technical definition but more the quality of service. And for that, the underground portion will be the exact same as the subway, if even possibly better, just like Calgary and Edmonton.

[1overcosc]

There are sure to be lots of people who adamantly refuse to call the Crosstown a metro even though much of it functionally is one... same situation with C-Train, Edmonton LRT, and Ottawa's Confederation Line (though the latter is a bit special as its 100% grade seperated--future extensions may not be though).

[Chadillaccc]

The Confederation Line will be a metro, with Light Rail Vehicles, low capacity (compared to other rail transit systems in the country), and LRT frequency.

[caltrane74]

It will be at grade in the eastern reaches of North York and Scarborough. The line from Don Mills all the way to Jane is almost all Underground, except for surfacing to the LRT facility. Those areas where it runs above ground really don't need full metro anyway.

Funny enough, I rode the Sheppard Line the other day and noticed that they are running 6 car sets on that line now. Wow!!!!

[GreaterMontréal]

''Montréal will be the first city in North America to take part in the Volvo Group City Mobility program.''

http://www.stm.info/en/press/press-relea...treal-to-become-city-of-electro-mobility

''To do so, we adopted our 2020 Strategic Plan back in 2010, with one of its objectives being the electrification of our surface network. As a result, we are progressively replacing our fleet of 1,700 diesel buses, first with hybrid buses, then by electric ones. With the help of the Government of Québec, we will also be deploying our first trolleybus lines. ''

[SignalHillHiker]

Provincial government announces reassignment of provincial ferry vessels

• MV Sound of Islay will join the MV Flanders this week to service Bell Island
• MV Beaumont Hamel is expected to return to Bell Island during the week of Feb. 3.
• MV Flanders will then come out for annual refit.
• MV Beaumont Hamel (enhanced service) and MV Sound of Islay will continue to service Bell Island run during the Flanders refit period.
• MV Gallipoli will continue to service Ramea, Burgeo.

[Innsertnamehere]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

It will be at grade in the eastern reaches of North York and Scarborough. The line from Don Mills all the way to Jane is almost all Underground, except for surfacing to the LRT facility. Those areas where it runs above ground really don't need full metro anyway.

Funny enough, I rode the Sheppard Line the other day and noticed that they are running 6 car sets on that line now. Wow!!!!

No they aren't. 4 car trains, they just have shortened platforms so you don't even notice it. The platforms are 50 meters shorter than a normal subway platform so at first glance it appears as a full train while in reality it's just a shorter platform to fit with the shorter trains.

[caltrane74]

Those Tricky Bastards!

[Chadillaccc]

Suffice to say, I am excited for these beasts to begin arriving in 18 months! (new render)



http://www.canadianmetalworking.com/dail...-calgary-with-60-lrt-vehicles-99452.html

[GreaterMontréal]

All the major canadian cities will have modern trains.

[Chadillaccc]

The new trains will have a practical capacity of 980 people, while the current newest trains have a capacity of 678 (3-car) and 904 (4-car). A pretty impressive leap in our carrying capacity.

[1overcosc]

Does the move from 3-car to 4-car trains require expanding the station platforms?

Kudos to Calgary! Bigger trains, a subway planned for the core, more LRT expansion... glad to see that transit expansion there is keeping pace with city growth. Failure to do that was Toronto's biggest mistake and now they have a shitton of catchup to do.

[Chadillaccc]

Yes it does. The majority of stations have already been extended, plus every new station since 2003 has been built with the extension already in place. There are 6 stations (out of 45) left to be expanded, one of which will be completely rebuilt (39th Avenue Station). A lot of people hate it, but I kind of like the fact that even after the 201 subway is complete, that the 202 will still be at-grade on 7th Avenue. Call me crazy, but I love having the free-fare zone downtown, and it certainly wouldn't be free if both lines were under ground.

[SpongeG]

Originally Posted by Innsertnamehere

It uses an existing corridor. The corridor is currently used by 3 GO lines, so they are upgrading the corridor to up to 8 tracks and getting rid of all the at grade crossings, as well as adding the two tracks for the UPX. The spur is elevated and runs to the airport. The airport station is actually almost finished already.. The corridor today is between 3 and 1 track depending on where you are on it, after the project is complete it will vary between 8 and 3. Running into union every line will have 2 tracks. (UPX, Milton, Kitchener, Barrie)

thanks for the info, sounds good

[caltrane74]

Those Calgary LRT trains look a little bit like the new Toronto Streetcar but with a higher floor of course.

Still though, pretty slick.

[Chadillaccc]

The colour scheme is similar, but the layout, length, and capacity are not even comparable.

[caltrane74]

I realize that, but I was talking about the front end design and body style more than anything else.

I know the capacity of the new Toronto streetcars is only around 250 passangers.

[Doady]

Originally Posted by caltrane74

I realize that, but I was talking about the front end design and body style more than anything else.

I know the capacity of the new Toronto streetcars is only around 250 passangers.

So in other words, Toronto's new LRVs have similar capacity to Calgary's LRVs.