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Originally Posted by GreaterMontréal
Eventually the Blue Line will fill up. There will be an intermodal station on Lacordaire.
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As others have said, rather than build a line that will take decades to fill up - cover more people today and build a relief line later, if each line is lighter the line by line costs should also be lower.
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Originally Posted by swimmer_spe
... So the problem is that you cannot stuff them to the brim with people? That sounds to me like a feature instead of a flaw.
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Like the roads, things are bound to get congested during rush hour, the issue is not only capacity . . . its also circulation.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
Not to mention cost. LRT rolling stock is usually more expensive for less capacity. Trams have be designed to "interact" with cars on the road. And there's a cost to that. A cost Ottawa paid for a capability they now have no intention of using.
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Surprised nobody mentioned this, but LRV's are also more expensive to maintain because they are much more mechanically complex than traditional frame on bogie railcars.
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Originally Posted by J.OT13
Furthermore, by having low-floor, you can't have full automation. Because of this, we have 4 cabs wasting space.
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Nope, you could automate and you could go to 2 cab trains as well, though currently the solution for that would be what Eglinton is doing in Toronto - putting seats where a cab would be and have two single units connected back to back.
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Originally Posted by Truenorth00
The fact that they didn't specify consistent door spacing is another annoyance. But it gives them an excuse for why they can't automate for another 30 years ....
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The current system could have automation, door spacing is a non issue, run trains back to back and they become symmetrical though that doesn't matter either the trains always have the same door spacing when running in each direction (or they could) so you could install psds based on that.
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