Recent content by whatchyyc

Afaik the train will stay at 5 minutes peak because while 2-3 minutes is technically possible it leaves zero tolerance for delays. Right now the bus service reviews are focused on reallocating service hours from peak-only express and high school routes to an all-day two way network that can also...

I thought what they're offering is very competitive but I do wonder how far along they are with sales

I passed by and it's a PDI excavator tearing up the last building on the site

I'll find the report in a second but the most pressing issue with 7th Avenue right now is the very poor condition the right of way is in right now, apparently it's at a 73% SOGR which is absolutely terrible

In the design brief the cladding is supposed to be a matte metallic texture and the fins a reflective aluminum so I guess we'll see

If Ikea were to move in, I doubt it would be an actual store but something like the "showroom only" type things they do in city centres, where they might have a smaller selection of homewares and customers can order furniture for delivery to their home from the Deerfoot Meadows warehouse.

From the pictures it seems much much nicer than the Hampton Inn I stayed at in Lethbridge

The Series 10/11 order has been in the works for a very long time now but I'll be interested to see what happens next for the high floor fleet. Green Line didn't even have Siemens make the RFP (to be fair their offering probably sucked) and Edmonton has gone with Hyundai-Rotem again for their...

They have paid for 40

CT just don't have enough train cars to have very many 4 car trains with the frequencies that are being run, afaik the capacity of the system is the highest it's ever been even with 3 car trains. There's been a handful of new cars delivered but they haven't been put into service yet because of...

Frankfurt (where the U2 originally ran) has standard LRVs with gangway ends that can be easily coupled and decoupled

Exactly what I thought