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ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit
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03-23-2022, 04:30 PM
(03-23-2022, 03:50 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:
(03-23-2022, 02:31 PM)ac3r Wrote: They bought crappy trains and designed this LRT poorly. There's USSR era trams that can run year round in Russia but the slightest bit of ice cripples our system.

Except these trains operate in cities just as ice prone as ours.

These are operational issues.

There are no other Flexity Freedoms in operation on any LRT system, other than ours, yet.

But, I agree, this is likely an operational issue as the Freedom is based on other Flexity family designs and parts, such as the Toronto streetcars and several systems in France, German, Austria and Switzerland.

But Keolis is a global company which runs many tram systems and can draw upon that experience rto run ION, so there has to be more to this story.
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RE: ION - Waterloo Region's Light Rail Transit - by Bytor - 03-23-2022, 04:30 PM
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