Help me out here – does she say anything in this interview?
Like, I can't tell that she actually answered a single question.
I get the sense this is the worst fate that could possibly befall US transit construction execs – that after putting pen to paper, trying something new to America, learning from others to save a few hundred million or billion dollars, they’ll have to do it again in 20 years for another problem
ST's blithe dismissal of ALR based solely on the Canada Line shows a lack of seriousness to tackling high costs. There are many forms of automated rail out there to examine. ST should do that examination rather than this mad rush to scale back the ST3 projects that we voted for and are paying for.
In honour of the opening of the new Anse-à-l'Orme (A3) branch, here is the REM overlaid other Canadian cities.
I tried to roughly centre Gare Centrale with the centre of the city to convey just how much high-quality, automated rail has been built in such a relatively short period of time!!
To finish off our first week, we have a post on one of the biggest problems facing modern infrastructure projects.
open.substack.com/pub/infrasto...
Westside Backyard
Perhaps sometimes we really should just phone it in
Building rail for vibes isn't good transit
Line 6 cost $2.5 billion, 7 years of construction, and is lucky to go 16km/h serving 20,000
Vancouver's R6 rapid bus in a similar suburban context cost $33 million, took 1 year to build, goes 23km/h, and serves 15,000 + 9000 on the local 319
On one hand I'm sorry that Condon and his magical land use thinking is being exported from Vancouver, on the other the more he is out of town the better.
Stephen Jacob Smith
Kristian
Ok let's just ignore shutting down a brand new transit line 6 months after opening
"Early ridership figures [...] about 20,000 daily weekday riders"
Sorry, about 20,000 rider, so Line 6 is under 20,000 riders per day then less than half of what the 36 did prev.
www.metrolinx.com/en/news/line...
