define('DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT', true); define('DISALLOW_FILE_MODS', true); Comments on: The CDPQ and Bill 137:Constructing Alternate Realities https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/05/the-cdpq-and-bill-137constructing-alternate-realities/ Anton Dubrau's blog about maps, transit ideas and implementations Wed, 31 May 2017 17:58:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Fraser Pollock https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/05/the-cdpq-and-bill-137constructing-alternate-realities/comment-page-1/#comment-5652 Wed, 31 May 2017 17:58:45 +0000 http://www.cat-bus.com/?p=450#comment-5652 I spoke to a colleague of mine who is working with Metrolinx and GO Transit on their RER Program (Regional Express Rail). This program will to be completed by 2025, will electrify 4 of the 7 GO Train Lines add a massive amount of capacity by upgrading many single track routes into double track ones, vastly improve the signaling along the lines as well as electrify them up to the maximum mileage point that GO transit’s ownership allows them to do. This will allow on the core part of the GO Train network to operate trains every 15 minutes all day in both directions. The other 3 lines will also have their frequencies massively updated as well. Beyond the end of the electrified portions of the 4 GO Train lines, increased diesel train frequency will allow at least 1 train per hour all day in both directions. The construction on certain lines began as early as 2014. The first pieces of heavy construction started last year on the Barrie GO (adding a second track) and Stouffville GO Lines (multiple road overpasses and the initial work of adding a second track for a significant portion of the line). This whole program is going to cost $13.5 Billion.

With all of this, my colleague still is racking his brain as to why, with all the work done on your Mascouche Line and a pre existing electric commuter rail line that you already own, a line that has already a significant amount of double tracking, has what would be presently an almost impossible to build, pre existing double track heavy railway tunnel going directly into downtown leading to a well connected existing downtown railway station, why would you get rid of this and build a Light Metro System (this is not real LRT in any way) which is clearly just reinventing the wheel and which clearly has less passenger carrying capacity than what you already have! For god’s sake why? Your downtown railway station which unlike Toronto’s Union Station, still has a lot of excess passenger carrying capacity and could easily accept continuing improvements for some time, long before you would have to pay for upgrades to it.

If you build this 67 km driverless Light Metro system you will still have to hire a significant number of legally required “Attendants” who respond to problems on board the trains, instead of employing “drivers”. Just ask Translink in Vancouver how much money your Attendants really save instead of just employing a driver on each train, especially as the network gets bigger.

]]> By: ant6n https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/05/the-cdpq-and-bill-137constructing-alternate-realities/comment-page-1/#comment-5651 Tue, 30 May 2017 22:01:37 +0000 http://www.cat-bus.com/?p=450#comment-5651 My brief.

(one could also find them by searching for my name on the list of memoirs)

]]> By: Serena https://www.cat-bus.com/2017/05/the-cdpq-and-bill-137constructing-alternate-realities/comment-page-1/#comment-5649 Fri, 26 May 2017 03:25:11 +0000 http://www.cat-bus.com/?p=450#comment-5649 Hey!

I don’t want to download every link on http:/www.bape.gouv.qc.ca/sections/mandats/Reseau_electrique_métropolitain/index.htm to figure out which is yours, do you know off hand which link it is so I could download and watch it? I love your work and keep up the good stuff

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