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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 6h

WEGO Niagara Parks Commission (Ontario, Canada) is rather small. They have only one and a half routes, only take prepurchased cards (no payment on board), and run frequent services during the day only. Connects resorts, attractions like the power station, the GO/VIA train station, and key points.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 6h

I had a classmate at Uni who did a PhD on demand responsive transit (the academic term for microtransit) it becomes less cost efficient than fixed route public transport very quickly. Even a few riders tips the balance to where an hourly or half hourly bus is a more consistent, reliable, and cheaper

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 6h

The buses had placards and/or destination boards for it too!

JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 6h

Is this the only time WCE will run a weekend service in thirty years!?

JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 6h

Which WeGo is this?
Sorry but there is also WeGo, the tourist bus service of the Niagara Parks Commission in Niagara Falls.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 7h

Accenture. Same company that messed up the PRESTO system in Toronto for so long and so much money.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 8h

Fun hidden fact: the first four notes of Oh Canada play at the end of all federal Government of Canada ads and videos, after the “A message from the Government of Canada”.
We may be reserved but our national identity is a big deal. We even recruited one of our most famous comedians for an ad:

It’s time to choose Canada

YouTube video by Canadian Armed Forces

m.youtube.com

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 10h

Likely Fixes (in order of problem)
- Better timetabling, stepping back crews (streetcars don’t wait for driver breaks)
- Active TSP that preempts turn phases
- Double point switches and better switch control system with alignment relayed to cab via TSP transponders
- Low fence/hedge (0.5m) along RoW

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 11h

A couple common issues:
- Terminal times and capacity
- Conservative/inoperative TSP that doesn’t let transit preempt other movements like left turn signals
- Standing slow order for all switches
- Stop and check for all switches
- Slow driving because of risks people in walking in or across RoW.

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More Transit Southern Ontario @moretransitso.bsky.social · 8d

Good News! The Finch West LRT has successfully completed its revenue service demonstration. The line will be handed over to the TTC by November 3rd and will open shortly after. news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Ontario Newsroom

news.ontario.ca

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12h

@moretransitso.bsky.social can we promote this through our own networks too. A high performing streetcar network is critical to the larger GGH transportation network: faster connections to regional trains (GO) and subways, better access to major destinations like Chinatown, Exhibition, and beaches.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12h

Would love to see it but I have my doubts.

JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12h

Has the premier spoken to the TTC who says that speed bulbs are not safe for roads with buses? Is he proposing a massive investment to replace big buses with more frequent vans to placate the TTC?

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Bike Ottawa @bikeottawa.bsky.social · 14h

Premier Ford makes a bunch of promises regarding school safety he can’t possibly keep 👇

speedcamerassavelives.ca/2025/10/31/p...

Premier Ford makes a bunch of promises regarding school safety he can’t possibly keep

A private citizen, and member of the Safe Travel Planning Committee in Ottawa, spoke with the Premier on his personal cell phone. (Yes, you too can call him on his phone number 647-612-3673!) Premi…

speedcamerassavelives.ca

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12h

About time!

JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 12h

I will see to it that double point switches, switch control, and active TSP with transit preemption get mentioned sufficiently.
Let me know if I can contribute to the report as well. I have pictures of great examples for Toronto to follow, like Sydney’s George Street which is what King & Queen need

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

My understanding is that design was originally constructed for use with locomotive hauled trains but has come in handy with EMUs for double berthing so has been maintained/modified over time. Dutch use for through stations. Sydney Central and Melbourne Southern Cross have it for terminal tracks.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

Swiss IC2000 push-pull coaches and driving van trailer for use with Re460 locomotives. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...

IC 2000 - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Rodney 🚧🚇 @chanface.bsky.social · 3d

Interesting… they’re still building the full 300m platform capable of handling GO trains…

According to the document, this station will still be built with an entire or almost full 300 metre
GO platform.
My guess is this decision was made for an operational reason, and there is still an intention for GO to stop at St. Clair-Old Weston in the long-term.
Station Design Changes
UPE is served by 3-car single-level trains that utilize higher station platforms for boarding on the same level as the UPE doors. In comparison, GO trains can be up to
12-car bi-level trains with lower station platforms. While the station platforms will remain the same length as designed, a portion of each platform will be constructed at a higher elevation to facilitate level boarding with the UPE fleet.
Based on concept designs for the required UPE service, Metrolinx and City staff have confirmed that any impacts to the current SCOW Station design are likely to be minimal.
Key scope elements such as connections to Gunns Road and St. Clair Avenue, the TTC bus loop, pedestrian tunnels, and future development lands will be retained.
St. Clair-Old Weston Station and 2025 GO Expansion Program Updates
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@reiaposting.1h
Replying to
@VETTE____ and @WBMetro62
it greatly simplifies construction tbh, you don't need the multiple height platforms and extra considerations needed for the

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

At least it seems from a quick reading of the document that platforms will be built at lower level for GO Trains too so they could be made to stop at a later date when a better government and Metrolinx management is in charge.
Any update on Finch-Kennedy and King-Liberty stations? MX still lists.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

So apparently 15 minute GO service is no longer happening any time soon. At least on the non-Lakeshore lines (Northern Corridors). #Toronto #Ontario is being let down by the province and Metrolinx.
Wild how GO RER/Expansion has gone from so amazing to so basic in so few years.
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Mary Lacroix @marylacroix.bsky.social · 3d

No worries: I found it. "...this service change is required to maintain the 15-minute (or better) service frequency commitment made by Metrolinx for the SmartTrack Program, which
can no longer be maintained by GO service."

www.toronto.ca

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

The Swiss IC trains are pushpull even on intercity services generally.
Plus their older generation DPZ Zurich SBahn trains which have a cab car, coaches, and locomotive made to operate in a set.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

Finally, there is a terminal station layout common in Europe, UK, and Australia where you have three parallel tracks at stations with the middle track not serving platforms but with mid-platform crossovers so you can do shunting moves more easily.
Pictures show it at Sydney Central on platforms 1-4

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

One blessing in Toronto is that many of our rail corridors have lots of room in them, meaning that adding tracks is a matter of grading and then actually laying said tracks plus expanding overpasses/underpasses/stations as required. Maybe replacing embankments with retaining walls for more space.

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JackTatt 🇨🇦 @jacktatttran.bsky.social · 1d

I think it already was. Story:
I was walking through downtown Toronto before pride but the streets were already fenced off for the parade. @tps.ca Constable moved the barricade so I an everyone else could cross Dundas.
I was in DC in January and Capitol Police were no help when streets were closed

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