The Great Canadian Transit Thread - Page 295

matt602 · #**5881** Posted **Feb 10, 2015, 12:12 AM**

It's double track along the entirety of Hamilton so yeah, they'd have to add in 2 or even 3 more tracks for the station. I think the station would also include a bus loop for the relocated Stoney Creek Niagara GO bus stop and any future service.

Innsertnamehere · #**5882** Posted **Feb 10, 2015, 12:38 AM**

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Originally Posted by SteelTown

I think a lot of the cost will be repairing and upgrading the rail tracks along a heavy industrial section of Hamilton.

Thing is that they already have to do that to allow their trains to access the yard. The level of train service on the line would not change, they would just be building a new station.

Metro-One · #**5883** Posted **Feb 10, 2015, 4:10 AM**

This is pretty cool.

The gantry crane building the Evergreen Line in Coquitlam is currently "walking accross" a steel box girder section to reach the next pre-cast section to build.

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Webcam pic from today - gantry a bit further along walking across steel box girder:

http://wcs.pbaeng.com/projects/R1_Transit

caltrane74 · #**5884** Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 3:37 PM**

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/02/09/metrolinx-starts-shopping-for-electric-trains.html

Metrolinx is putting out the feelers for new Electric Trains (DMU's as well as EMU's) for new GO Commuter Trains.

SkahHigh · #**5885** Posted **Feb 11, 2015, 4:00 PM**

MONTREAL — Quebec’s pension fund manager, the Caisse de Dépôt et placements du Québec, confirmed to Global News that any new Train de l’Ouest project will include a rapid light rail transit system linking downtown Montreal to the Trudeau Airport.

”What is envisioned is one project that would eventually serve both the West Island of Montreal and also the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport,” Macky Tall, Senior VP in charge of Infrastructures of the Caisse said.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1820695/could-...louest-project-be-coming-off-the-wheels/

caltrane74 · #**5886** Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 5:32 PM**

https://www.facebook.com/UnionPearsonExpress

Getting ready to test UPX Trains with sliding station doors.

SkahHigh · #**5887** Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 7:11 PM**

Gorgeous shot of a Mont-Saint-Hilaire train passing through Griffintown

Towards downtown Montreal by Michael Berry Railfan, on Flickr

Large Cat · #**5888** Posted **Feb 12, 2015, 8:43 PM**

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

MONTREAL — Quebec’s pension fund manager, the Caisse de Dépôt et placements du Québec, confirmed to Global News that any new Train de l’Ouest project will include a rapid light rail transit system linking downtown Montreal to the Trudeau Airport.

”What is envisioned is one project that would eventually serve both the West Island of Montreal and also the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Airport,” Macky Tall, Senior VP in charge of Infrastructures of the Caisse said.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1820695/could-...louest-project-be-coming-off-the-wheels/

Finally.

caltrane74 · #**5889** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 1:49 PM**

Metrolinx, stated they will be twinning the track on the Markham line (5km) getting ready for express regional rail and electrification of the line. Kitchener Line is also a priority before the lakeshore line which carries 120,000 people a day.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1826612/metrol...rack-on-stouffville-go-line-this-spring/

ssiguy · #**5890** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 8:16 PM**

Are they going to run the Montreal train all day and create a more suburban rail system of will this be strictly commuter rush-hour rail?

GO has been buying up track for years and now owns 75%, has Montreal been doing the same?

Aylmer · #**5891** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 8:27 PM**

Ha! That would actually require them to invest money in it! Money which, as the provincial government knows, would be much better spent in a $4B interchange or a $700M expressway from one cornfield to another.

GreaterMontréal · #**5892** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 8:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by ssiguy

Are they going to run the Montreal train all day and create a more suburban rail system of will this be strictly commuter rush-hour rail?

GO has been buying up track for years and now owns 75%, has Montreal been doing the same?

train de l'ouest will be a LRT that runs all day, no other commuter train expansion for Montréal. the LRT probably a ''tram-train'', there is also the train de l'est, LRT to Pie-IX, connecting the to SRB on Pie-IX. But the LRT tram train could also go on Pie-IX

the western side of the island of Montréal is not really populated, and not a lot of suburbs. The Montréal CMA is pretty small, only 4,300km². The future LRT network will stay inside the core, Island, Longueuil agglomeration - and maybe Laval.

the only thing for commuter rail I see is a doubling of the Deux-Montagnes line.

Jean-Talon will probably have a tram train in the near future, .

http://www.ccmm.qc.ca/images/courriel/2012_2013/autres/rapporttramway_final_hr.pdf

Nouvellecosse · #**5893** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:18 PM**

Why have the West Island served by LRT rather than electrified mainline commuter rail?

GreaterMontréal · #**5894** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:24 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Why have the West Island served by LRT rather than electrified mainline commuter rail?

Transport Minister Robert Poëti wants new rail line for West Island

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But Poëti told Radio-Canada the old tracks won't be sufficient, and said Liberal government is looking into the possibility of building a new rail line.

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“The CN and CP lines don’t belong to us,”

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“I am in constant discussion and negotiation. There are no indications that freight transport will decrease.”

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/t...-new-rail-line-for-west-island-1.2892261

the link to the airport will be rapid transit and underground.

SkahHigh · #**5895** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:33 PM**

^ plus an LRT will be easier to build in the central part of the West Island (located between the Vaudreuil and Deux-Montagnes lines). By connecting with Trudeau they want a system similar to the Canada line that will also benefit the citizens of Pointe-Claire, DDO and Kirkland.

Nouvellecosse · #**5896** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:34 PM**

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Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal

Transport Minister Robert Poëti wants new rail line for West Island

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/t...-new-rail-line-for-west-island-1.2892261

the link to the airport will be rapid transit and underground.

Well that explains why they would need to build another set of tracks, but not why they plan to use those new tracks for LRT trains rather than heavy rail trains. Unless they're planning to have street-running sections it would be better to have trains more like BART than to have an LRT. They're bigger and more spacious, and faster.

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Originally Posted by SkahHigh

^ plus an LRT will be easier to build in the central part of the West Island (located between the Vaudreuil and Deux-Montagnes lines). By connecting with Trudeau they want a system similar to the Canada line that will also benefit the citizens of Pointe-Claire, DDO and Kirkland.

I'd rather see a spur from the Deux-Montagnes line built along the hydro corridor personally.

GreaterMontréal · #**5897** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:36 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

Well that explains why they would need to build another set of tracks, but not why they plan to use those new tracks for LRT trains rather than heavy rail trains. Unless they're planning to have street-running sections it would be better to have trains more like BART than to have an LRT. They're bigger and more spacious, and faster.

they only want 1 system, for the link to the airport and for the West-Island.

Nouvellecosse · #**5898** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:43 PM**

^ You're saying the only kind of trains capable of serving the airport are LRT trains for some reason?

Btw, here's the alignment for the second spur:

GreaterMontréal · #**5899** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 10:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

^ You're saying the only kind of trains capable of serving the airport are LRT trains for some reason?

Btw, here's the alignment for the second spur:

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Quebec’s pension fund manager, the Caisse de Dépôt et placements du Québec, confirmed to Global News that any new Train de l’Ouest project will include a rapid light rail transit system linking downtown Montreal to the Trudeau airport.

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”What is envisioned is one project that would eventually serve both the West Island of Montreal and also the Pierre Elliot Trudeau airport,” Macky Tall, Senior VP in charge of Infrastructures of the Caisse said.

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The AMT has long considered the Train de l’Ouest a priority, but now the CEO of the mass transit organization that oversees commuter rail service in the Montreal area won’t say whether it fears service west of Dorval will be jeopardized for the Montreal-Trudeau airport link.

”I can’t comment on that because it’s going to be the mandate of the Caisse de depot,” Nicolas Girard said.

rapid transit, not a commuter train , the LRT will likely be linked to the Métro network, with intermodal stations. Lionel-Groulx
http://www.mtlblog.com/2015/01/lionel-groulx-metro-station-to-get-a-new-line-extension/

http://plus.lapresse.ca/screens/b58ba6-2c9e3-650ac-e2dbe-1a24e-2c58e-c2dfd-0ffc

SkahHigh · #**5900** Posted **Feb 13, 2015, 11:30 PM**

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Originally Posted by Nouvellecosse

^ You're saying the only kind of trains capable of serving the airport are LRT trains for some reason?

Btw, here's the alignment for the second spur:

The area is already developed, there's no space to build at-ground. There's space overhead of main arteries like Sources though.