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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Funny how we ended up buying trams and commuter trains rather urban rail cars for our urban rail network. Both were highly questionable choices.
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Well, in the line 2 case there wasn't actually another option. It's legally a mainline railway, thus needed mainline legal trains. It was actually somewhat amazing we were allowed the flexibility by Transport Canada to at least use Euro spec trains, rather then something more like a short GO train.
I feel like if they hadn't reused the old mainline with the pilot project years ago, it's likely they would have converted the transitway to the same tech as the confed line. You would have been able to reach downtown single seat that way.
A bank street subway will never, ever, happen in this town.