The Great Canadian Transit Thread

[Kevin_foster]

^ hahaah

Is the Peg planning anything?

[vid]

Is the Peg planning anything? Is George Bush preparing to end the war?

They're buying more buses and putting in heated shelters. That's their $140M transit plan.

[kitchener-lrt]

Kitchener's transportation consists of:
Sidewalks


Bike lanes


Buses


Via Rail


Inter-city Buses




Future:

[AndrewJ3D]

New trains are starting to phase out the old now.

Our new streetcars to be phased in soon.

And our new subways being phased in this year I think.

[vid]

The new GO locomotives are beautiful.

[mmmatt]

Originally Posted by Nicko999

Great Canadian topics are on fire those days

Thank you, thank you *bows*

[LilZebra]

Originally Posted by trueviking

if you take a long exposure photo of a winnipeg bus, it kind of looks like we have rapid transit....

[mersar]

Originally Posted by vid

Is the Peg planning anything? Is George Bush preparing to end the war?

They're buying more buses and putting in heated shelters. That's their $140M transit plan.

Yep, they've got 20 DE60LFR's on order, with a few having arrived for testing. Supposedly they are to be used on the route 60 there.

[SteelTown]

Each DE60LFR is around $900,000 so $18 million in total the rest of $122 million for heated shelters?

The DE60LFR works great here in Hamilton, they make nice turns around sharp corners. Though we don't get harsh winter compared to Winnipeg. The City just ordered another 18 DE60LFRs.

[MonkeyRonin]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ3D

And our new subways being phased in this year I think.

Sometime in 2009.

I really with they'd curve the sides on those things though, especially if it were downward like the E231 series on the Yamanote Line. Those are nice.

[mersar]

Originally Posted by SteelTown

Each DE60LFR is around $900,000 so $18 million in total the rest of $122 million for heated shelters?

The DE60LFR works great here in Hamilton, they make nice turns around sharp corners. Though we don't get harsh winter compared to Winnipeg. The City just ordered another 18 DE60LFRs.

They've also got 33 40 footers (not sure if D40LFR or DE40LFR though) on order, which is another $15M or so.

[francely57]

Originally Posted by raggedy13

I remember the first time I rode one of these was about 15 years ago in Canon Beach, Oregon. They call them "fun cycles" there and they're quite a standard touristy thing to rent there. They're pretty good for riding over wet sand. Are they common around Montreal? I don't know if I've ever seen one around Vancouver but they're quite nice to ride so I don't know why they're not more common in general.

In the Old Port they're very common, but much less in ordinary bike paths.



By the way, Toronto is really getting new subways soon? ours will come in like 4 years...

[someone123]

Halifax has the standard bus system plus two BRT routes (MetroLink) and two ferry routes (DT Dartmouth and Woodside). Funding has been secured for a third ferry route to Bedford.

Here are what the old ferries look like, from Wikipedia:


MetroLink bus from the Transport Canada website - a full gallery of the shelters, lanes, intersection setups, etc. is shown at http://www.tc.gc.ca/Programs/Environ...esHalifax.htm:

[trueviking]

Originally Posted by Kevin_foster

^ hahaah

Is the Peg planning anything?

all were doing is planning...have been for 50 years....i think were on plan 12b now.

[Jimby]

[PhilippeMtl]

by kevincrumbs

typical station
by mystery-110

going back to the burbs
by eruadan

[AndrewJ3D]

Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin

Sometime in 2009.

I really with they'd curve the sides on those things though, especially if it were downward like the E231 series on the Yamanote Line. Those are nice.

Looks about the same to me.

[AndrewJ3D]

[vid]

If you could, you know, follow their terms of service and post a link to the photographer of that image, that would be just super.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ3D

New trains are starting to phase out the old now.

Our new streetcars to be phased in soon.

And our new subways being phased in this year I think.

Those subways look very sleek. Those new streetcars look nice too although somehow I like the old cars better.