[CDL.TO]

Just another crappy system pushed on us by the government to avoid spending a little more on a monorail system.

What government pushed it on us?

 

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What government pushed it on us?

I apologize, i always thought that The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) was a government corporation and not private.

 

[nfitz]

Just another crappy system pushed on us by the government to avoid spending a little more on a monorail system.

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Government????

Do you have any idea how GTAA operates?

 

[threnody]

Just another crappy system pushed on us by the government to avoid spending a little more on a monorail system.

I think it's been impossible for people to take monorails seriously since that the Simpsons monorail episode aired. Maybe that's the problem.

 

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Government????

Do you have any idea how GTAA operates?

What has that have to do with this post.

 

[DavidH]

I apologize, i always thought that The Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA) was a government corporation and not private.

From http://www.gtaa.com/en/gtaa_corporate/board_of_directors/

GTAA is a not-for-profit corporation without share capital and is governed by a 15-member board drawn from nominees from the four regional municipalities of Durham, Halton, Peel and York, as well as the City of Toronto, the Province of Ontario and the Government of Canada, and from the Greater Toronto Area business and professional community.

It's NOT a government corporation in the sense that VIA Rail is. If it were, it would not constantly be at loggerheads with the government over the rent it pays to the government for the airport lands.

 

[DavidH]

What has that have to do with this post.

It has to do with the claim above that the LINK train was forced on "us" by the government.

 

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It has to do with the claim above that the LINK train was forced on "us" by the government.

Wow it gets better. Now it was forced not pushed.

 

[DavidH]

Wow it gets better. Now it was forced not pushed.

Forced, pushed, whatever. All of it is a fantasy. The GTAA made its own bad decision for its own reasons.

 

[kEiThZ]

But then there's LINK--an unexpandable, rinky-dink roller-coaster technology rightly shunned by big airports. I don't think there was any doubt, from day one, that it couldn't be permanent. Weird....

I think it had more to do with the consortium that was running the airport modernization program and less to do with the GTAA. Quite likely, 'people mover' was the deliverable. And the LINK system achieved that. It's probably one area where the staff who wrote the contract were weak. Otherwise, I am sure LINK would not have come into existence.

That said, why does everybody think LINK is so bad? It does the job and they got it up and running in record time (for any sort of transit project in the GTAA). While I'd like to see the system itself ultimately replaced by the TTC LRTs running to Pearson itself or some other improved system more effectively linked in to transit, LINK is not that bad for what it's supposed to do: move people between two terminals and a parking lot.

 

[Swamp Thing]

I really hope that they at least make it smoother. It is such a rocky ride!

I've never ridden the Toronto LINK, but I have ridden the supposedly identical Mandalay Bay Tram in Las Vegas. It was smooth as glass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LINK_Train
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandalay_Bay_Tram

 

[nfitz]

What has that have to do with this post.

Everything - you think GTAA constructed Link as a monorail at the pushing of the government. I'd say you don't have any idea how GTAA works; nor do you know what a Monorail is!

I've never ridden the Toronto LINK, but I have ridden the supposedly identical Mandalay Bay Tram in Las Vegas. It was smooth as glass.

Well I haven't ridden that one, but the LINK is anything but smooth. And I expect that is the cause of the current shutdown.

When operating (and it's always had atleast one vehicle operating when I've needed it), it's very efficient - and makes parking in the cheap parking lot a pleasure!

 

[299 bloor call control.]

Apparently, the same system was used to replace a low-speed Maglev train at Birmingham Airport (UK).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AirRail_Link

More on the Cable Liner system on Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Liner

I'm pretty sure that this was the lowest cost option that presented itself when the People Mover went out on tender.

 

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you think GTAA constructed Link as a monorail at the pushing of the government. I'd say you don't have any idea how GTAA works; nor do you know what a Monorail is!

nfitz,. im a bit confused of your gibberish.

 

[nfitz]

I'm confused why you don't think GTAA is relevant to a thread on LINK!