10-01-2018, 04:09 PM
(10-01-2018, 04:04 PM)taylortbb Wrote:(10-01-2018, 03:16 PM)nms Wrote: When the LRVs are acting as pair, will there only be one driver, or will there be a need a driver in the trailing unit?
Just one driver. Their controls will control the motors/doors/etc in both vehicles. The vehicles support longer trains too, up to 6 vehicles I think, not that we have the platforms for that.
This is why almost all subway expansion proposals for Toronto are idiotic. Any underused subway could be built as LRT for less, but later expanded gradually as traffic levels increase. The only exceptions would be places where the demand almost immediately will require long trains and grade separation. At present as far as I can tell that means the Relief line and only the Relief line. Certainly not the Richmond Hill extension, Scarborough, or Sheppard. Or even Vaughan, for that matter, but that construction project is an unrecoverable sunk cost.