Recent content by trtcttc

That's true in aggregate, but we also live in a vast country. Sure, business people and well off people fly much more than regular folks. But the reason low cost carriers can induce so much demand (where it didn't exist before), is lots of people want to travel, but can't afford to. If the fares...

Why are they not realistic? In the real world, a Canadian transit agency is running trains up to 90-100 seconds. It’s literally what’s happening. We are no where near that level of headway here, why waste any of the budget we have available on something that probably will never be used. You...

Did you see his interview today? I imagine he'll resign but shorter term. He knows after the next couple of years they may be facing a Pittsburgh level abyss.

Huh? Not really sure how you reached that conclusion. I literally showed an example of a Canadian transit agency, operating at 90 seconds headway, WITHOUT automation. And again, automation is absolutely not the limiting factor. We are not operating the ctrain at the maximum frequency we can with...

This is largely true. Lynx didn't fail because they wanted to make too much profits. US low cost carriers don't fly to Canada because of the landing fees. I think this would be a bad idea. We have a pretty weak aviation sector, Westjet/Porter is private, and Air Canada stock performance is very...

You can achieve 90 second headway with CBTC signaling, no need for automation. The reason operating headway is 100 seconds is for station dwell, which will be there automated or not. The limiting factor won't be automation, but the number of trains and service Calgary Transit will actually...

Apparently there's going to be a live fire art piece called "Home Fire"

17th Ave is a one off and I don't see proposals to rebuild any other station. The new 17th station was a pretty successful, with the Stampede Station site, the Truman hotel site, and the activation of that entire corner wouldn't have been possible without the new station. It comes down to the...

I know people often say this, but outside of China, most European and Asian countries are really not as speedy as people here would believe. They're also bundling a lot of work into main street, I'm pretty sure there were road widening/narrowing, utility relocations, water main replacements...

There's pretty wide area under the underpass. Could they carve out a bus stop lane, add floor to ceiling glass panels - heated with lighting, to create an underpass station that isn't unsafe? The 26th Ave station is pretty terrible. I'll trust the people that live there, but I think people also...

There are a good number of energy startups likely related to abundance of engineering talent, but there's fintech (Neo, OneVest and ZayZoon. To date, the city is home to seven narwhals — companies that are valued at over $1 billion CAD — including Neo Financial, Orennia, OneVest, ZayZoon...

Toronto wanted 100% low floor, back when that was not very common. Bombardier basically custom designed a product for Toronto, then had a bunch of production issues with the fabrication facilities in Mexico. There's been far less issues with the Flexity Freedom (Waterloo/Edm/Crosstown)...

Could this possibly go anywhere? Disruptions happen, and it's for an improvement project funded by every taxpayer in Calgary. I also find the impact on business a little suspect. There's been so many new restaurants and shops opening in the area, housing values there climbed faster than...

Say they're making a trip from Marda Loop to the SW? Would save a bunch of time not having to go into downtown. Even if you are going NE, switching to a train is probably much faster. I get stop spacing shouldn't be too close, but when there's connection points at LRT, should probably stop.

Marner and Matthews are friends, didn't really seem to matter. RNH and Hyman took a step back this year. If that continues playoffs may be questionable. That team after the first line and first D pair is not even a playoff team. No one else other than Bouchard cracked 50 points.