kotsy
Senior Member
At the risk of sharing something posted much earlier in the thread, I found this video over the weekend that includes a great visual of the Lower Don bridge & portal works happening.
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nfitz
Superstar
Ontario Transit Group posted a couple of photos of the progress digging the King-Bathurst station, over at LinkedIn::
Towered
Superstar
Is this the mining process?
nfitz
Superstar
Yes, that machine does the mining. Gosh, that it really Dwarfs the workers!
generalcanada
Senior Member
honestly smaller than i thought. I remember hearing about theese cutter heads they got.
nfitz
Superstar
The TBMs that will pass through there eventually, on the way from Exhibition to Corktown, will definitely be much much bigger!
kotsy
Senior Member
Update on the Dundas & Logan bridge construction.
generalcanada
Senior Member
most boards from the exhibition open house were the same we've seen in the past except for these.
the train details are kinda interesting. 661 max capacity for 4-car 80m trainsets.
Asked a guy from connect6ix they said the first trains roll off the line in 2029. Cuttin it close arent we?
the train details are kinda interesting. 661 max capacity for 4-car 80m trainsets.
Asked a guy from connect6ix they said the first trains roll off the line in 2029. Cuttin it close arent we?
stevedean
Active Member
Thats a similar capacity to the Crosstown (if they add a third car, the capacity is closer to 750 on Eglinton)
nfitz
Superstar
For nominal 2031 operations? They need something to test on; part of the Crosstown line is the test vehicles rolled off the line and there was no where to ship them too.
stevedean
Active Member
Are we talking beginning or end of 2029 to receive the trains? And are we thinking beginning or end of 2031 for operations to start? My guess is that we should already assume 2031 is not going to happen.
Rogue2016
New Member
Someone at Metrolinx needs to do a better job of proof-reading these public posters. The second bullet on the first pic/poster is part jibberish: "The TPSS will special power equipment..."?? And "....when they progressing from underground..." ??? Just saying..
ARG1
Senior Member
Worth noting that it's 80m, with knockout panels to extend to 5 car 100m, and unlike the Crosstown these trains can run at significantly higher headways due to not needing to deal with a surface tramway section. In other words, this line overall will have a much higher capacity.
Sauga89
Active Member
The phrase "similar to" vehicles used in Italy gives me pause. It implies to me that the Ontario line trains aren't quite the same model. I know that a little customization for different cities is normal, but I also remember that Ottawa's LRT trains were supposed to be a tried and tested European model tweaked for the North American market. Ottawa's trains have suffered from all sorts of maintenance and reliability issues however. Does anyone know how different the trains Hitachi is building for the Ontario Line are from those in Italy?
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81-717
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I don't know why different train models in different cities are even considered part of the same "family" under a common umbrella name like Bombardier Movia or Alstom Metropolis. The TRs have nothing in common with the subways in Bucharest except maybe the propulsion, yet both are considered part of the Movia "family". Likewise, the REM is considered part of the Alstom Metropolis "family" yet has nothing in common with the Alstom Metropolis in Budapest. All of those are completely different models used by completely different systems, and have nothing in common aside from the manufacturer and maybe the propulsion, but that doesn't make them part of the same "family". Otherwise you can argue that the T1 is in the same family as the R110A, or the Alstom Metropolis in Warsaw is in the same family as the R160 because they have the same propulsion.
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