CTrainDude

A short turn at Kerby isn’t blocking intersections or impacting the NW in any way.

Short turning certainly isn’t new to CT. There’s been plenty of City Hall, Heritage, and Anderson South short turns scheduled over the years. The Kerby short turn is certainly possible, as the signal system was designed with that in mind - a train can do a protected short turn there without locking out bidirectional traffic back to Sunalta, and it’s against an interlocking on the east end. A Westbrook short turn would cause issues due to the design of the bidirectional signal system - any train changing directions without an interlocking is forced to bypass two signals to change directions, and would also lock inbound trains out back to 45th Street if done on the inbound platform. Not ideal.

There won’t be.

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I’d actually say the opposite. CT would love to get these in service ASAP as soon as they’re deemed ready for service.

When is the last time you bought a bus from VMC? I never said that having cutaways was great, and perhaps there's something out there that fits the bill and can be used instead of an Arboc, but if you're relying on VMC to solve your problems, you will be sorely disappointed. Your argument is against the use of cutaways, not in favour of Vicinity in particular. Before you jump on me, I hope you can see the difference in the two.

Vicinity’s buses are terrible. You’d be better off sticking with Arbocs.

You would also likely notice more trips starting from Somerset northbound without the corresponding southbound trips starting at Southland, as trains come off the tail track there instead of from Haysboro.

That's all because Haysboro is closing for construction - no trains can be stored there, which means Red Line trains need to come from elsewhere (and go back there).

The trip cancellations and significant bus shortages are all due to the extreme cold - nothing works well when it's -35, and that includes buses and trains. So there's a huge backlog of buses in the shop. Things should likely be better by the weekend or next week. You'll likely see incremental improvements each day.

It must’ve been cleaned in place. There’s no overhead power down there right now, so there would be no way to switch it out.

You bet. A planned weekday Red Line closure will have ripple effects through all LRT service on both lines, and on some bus service. CT needs a lot of extra buses to absorb the size of shuttle service that would be needed to replace weekday Red line south, so I would be surprised if there’s no impact to bus service besides the shuttles.

This was done during the flood - it’s a nice idea, but without enforcement, it’s pretty useless. Macleod Trail is normally 4 lanes past 17th Ave - it’s currently down to 3 lanes because they built the temporary outbound track on the east lane. With further closures of lanes, northbound Macleod could be down to two lanes (or one) at some points.

There's 40 U2s left. So.... It's likely the order number is increased, so maybe, eventually.

A nice throwback video on the Green Line’s YouTube channel from the early 1980s on the construction and opening of the original CTrain south line. https://youtu.be/HCY4jdmIr3o

Artics are high maintenance - literally. They spend a lot of time in the shop and cost a lot to keep on the road. And obviously take up more space in the shop. I’m not sure it factors in the decision, but they’re also horrible in winter.

There’s some great suggestions out there, and some that may not work for various reasons. All I can say is that there’s not many in Transit that would argue, so complaining to Transit likely won’t help much, because they don’t have decision-making over things like signals. They’re just one voice. And certainly don’t blame Transit. Your best bet may be to contact your Councillor to start a broader conversation within the City.

Elbow River siding itself is now fully operational for all movements, and like the old C-Track, is considered part of mainline, not yard. Still just some minor adjustments to make to the platform, but trains can move in and out from both ends.

I'm not sure why anyone would fight to keep them - they serve virtually no useful purpose, and make it very difficult for train Operators to see people approaching the crossing.

Yeah, I wouldn't read anything into it - they never stopped training operators on 7th Avenue.

Just so there’s no confusion here, SNC got the contract as the “Delivery” partner. They’re not building it - that’s the “Development” partner, and that contract has yet to be awarded.

You’re still driving U2s designed in the late 1950s though, so it probably won’t seem that bad. ?

It’s just a trial on two buses.

CT has actually been pursuing funding through the Canada Infrastructure bank to buy hundreds of electric buses in the coming years - nothing finalized yet, but it was just at Council a few weeks ago. It’s coming. https://globalnews.ca/news/9207162/city-committee-endorses-proposal-to-buy-electric-buses-for-calgary-transit/

Considering that Stoney had extra buses that didn't go out each day, I'd be pretty surprised to see any of these 7700s go out - there's a chance Stoney fixes them, but I think it's more likely they're gone forever. They were probably just moved to Stoney to make room at VP for the incoming buses.