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bunnyofdoom posted:No we now have a second train running from Blair to tunneys that cost several billions and only works about 30% of the time now. And has made international headlines..... it literally doesn't work in wet weather CLAM DOWN posted:aren't the wheels literally cracked lol lol cool 
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DaysBefore posted:Is the Skytrain a monorail it's a lame boring duorail
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OldAlias posted:lol cool We literally find out something else broke every single loving week
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DaysBefore posted:Is the Skytrain a monorail no, it's much better
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the thing that gets me about the Sky train is that the millennium and the expo lines have this massive central rail of linear induction that provides huge amounts of traction so that it can operate in icy conditions. the Canada line has a traditional electrified third rail so the second it snows the line can’t operate above ground because it can’t get traction up the slope.
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c-train in Calgary is pretty good (or was when I lived there and they've added a lot of stations since then). the downside is you have to be in Calgary to ride it.
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Cold on a Cob posted:c-train in Calgary is pretty good (or was when I lived there and they've added a lot of stations since then). the downside is you have to be in Calgary to ride it. doesn't the c-train kill people and get interrupted by cars, etc, regularly? non-grade-separated rail is bad and poo poo and pointless
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Houle posted:Honestly it really shows how loving stupid they are. Literally now Putin has undoctored of the Canadian government saluting a Nazi. Putin can even just say "see, they are so ignorant of their own history how can they be so sure about the history going on here?". Watch Canada and its small fish in a big pond energy be the reason why Ukraine loses the PR war and with that support. Well, in the event that Putin says this he would be extremely correct. Canadians and Westerners in general are ignorant of their history, that ignorance being fostered to prevent dissent or uncomfortable questions. The answer to this problem is not to shove our horrible history under the rug, but rather to deal with it directly and change how we do things. Will that happen? lol infernal machines posted:the ttc is simultaneously "not good" and "the best transit system in canada" I think the TTC is alright, but I've only ever used it as a tourist.
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CLAM DOWN posted:doesn't the c-train kill people and get interrupted by cars, etc, regularly? non-grade-separated rail is bad and poo poo and pointless I don't remember it going out of service all that often overall (no more than the subway did when I lived in Toronto anyway) and the car crossings were never a huge problem as the trains get priority except downtown where they follow lights and it operates more like a streetcar
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Yeah the moral hazard of the federal government stepping up for the TTC underfunding issues wouldn't be a problem at all, no siree.. Feds should fund new routes not repairing old.
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infernal machines posted:the ttc is simultaneously "not good" and "the best transit system in canada" hey that’s TransLink’s thing
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Moral hazard? Isn't it the business of the government to subsidize important infrastructure? We're not talking about a private profit-making corporation here.
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PhilippAchtel posted:Transit should be free
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DaysBefore posted:Is the Skytrain a monorail mono = one rail = rail
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it is in the government's interest that I can move quickly and efficiently to my place of work every day, but nah
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We are talking about a bunch of provinces being conservative kleptocrats and a bunch of municipalities with a huge infrastructure maintenance deficit. You give money to the TTC for their chronic underfunding guess what everyone else with half a braincell is going to do. You've disincentivized O&M spending.
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ZShakespeare posted:the thing that gets me about the Sky train is that the millennium and the expo lines have this massive central rail of linear induction that provides huge amounts of traction so that it can operate in icy conditions. the Canada line has a traditional electrified third rail so the second it snows the line can’t operate above ground because it can’t get traction up the slope. that line was meant to handle transit to and from the airport for the olympics. snow was a secondary concern. Vancouver transit also eliminated fare gates for the olympics only to bring them back because we can't have nice things
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apatheticman posted:We are talking about a bunch of provinces being conservative kleptocrats and a bunch of municipalities with a huge infrastructure maintenance deficit. You lost me at the part where other cities getting money to fund their transit systems is somehow a problem, why do I care which level of government does it? If we have to invent more levels of government just to increase the odds of good things happening then so be it, balkanize that poo poo.
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apatheticman posted:We are talking about a bunch of provinces being conservative kleptocrats and a bunch of municipalities with a huge infrastructure maintenance deficit. Fair enough. Better to let the TTC go bankrupt, I guess.
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RealityWarCriminal posted:Vancouver transit also eliminated fare gates for the olympics only to bring them back because we can't have nice things what are you talking about, compass/gates were introduced in 2015, olympics were in 2010
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If the Conservatives spur on national centralization of infrastructure by being insufferable, that's a good thing. Not that the Liberals will rise to the occasion.
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CLAM DOWN posted:what are you talking about, compass/gates were introduced in 2015, olympics were in 2010 they didn't have gates and then added them. I thought they had gates before but 
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RealityWarCriminal posted:they didn't have gates and then added them. I thought they had gates before but nope, it was mag stripe paper tickets that you inserted in a slot on the bus and it went beep, skytrain was honour system but transit cops would hunt you down for sport
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Took the Skytrain, my favourite monorail, once to watch a Lions game and the Skytrain was definitely the highlight of that night
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eXXon posted:You lost me at the part where other cities getting money to fund their transit systems is somehow a problem, why do I care which level of government does it? If we have to invent more levels of government just to increase the odds of good things happening then so be it, balkanize that poo poo. The liberals would just do means tested transit funding for municipalities.
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bunnyofdoom posted:No we now have a second train running from Blair to tunneys that cost several billions and only works about 30% of the time now. And has made international headlines..... it literally doesn't work in wet weather I'm very glad remote work happened cause even though the train is not part of my commute, it sure managed to make a mess of things anyways. And the next phase would probably turn my "bus->bus->bus" commute into "bus->bus->train->bus" because of the way I hooked up to the transitway, causing me to take the train to go like one stop down the transitway.
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Municipalities and provinces don't have money sovereignty, and it is incumbent on the federal government to subsidize all of our infrastructure spending. Fight me.
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Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine bona fide electrified parliamentary ovation for nazis! What I say? Nazis! What's it called? Nazis! That's right! Nazis!
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Cold on a Cob posted:c-train in Calgary is pretty good (or was when I lived there and they've added a lot of stations since then). the downside is you have to be in Calgary to ride it. The ctrain is only useful if you are going to or leaving downtown. Other wise you are hosed.
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ZShakespeare posted:Municipalities and provinces don't have money sovereignty, and it is incumbent on the federal government to subsidize all of our infrastructure spending. Fight me. sorry but the federal government doesn't have responsibilities any more
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bunnyofdoom posted:No we now have a second train running from Blair to tunneys that cost several billions and only works about 30% of the time now. And has made international headlines..... it literally doesn't work in wet weather they made the train out F35 parts
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Demon_Corsair posted:The ctrain is only useful if you are going to or leaving downtown. Other wise you are hosed. last time i was there the lrt shut down at like 11pm every night which ruled because i worked in a bar
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drat horror queefs posted:Well sir, there's nothing on earth like a genuine bona fide electrified parliamentary ovation for nazis! I hear those guys are awful loud…
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corgiwizard posted:I hear those guys are awful loud… Our MPs sieg heiled as a crowd!
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corgiwizard posted:I hear those guys are awful loud… Thwy'll be drowned out by the crowd
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corgiwizard posted:is there a chance the house could bend? Not on your life my Galician friend!
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