Urban Tech Data :: UTD: February 2018

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2017/11/06/surrey-admits-light-rail-congestion/

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2017/11/20/daily-hive-kenneth-chan-agrees-lrt-mistake/

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2017/11/20/mike-klassen-surrey-lrt-not-favoured-experts/

With a running right-of-way located entirely on city streets, crossing numerous major intersections, Light Rail Trains on Surrey’s LRT system will be limited to roadway speed limits of 50-60 km/h.

By comparison, most of the other LRT systems above offer considerable segments that are off of the street and in their own rights-of-way, where trains can travel at significantly faster speeds of 80-90 km/h, unimpeded by any obstructions or surrounding traffic. Many of these segments will be located on an elevated guideway or a tunnel, similar to SkyTrain, offering full grade-separation from the street level.

In fact, Canada’s three largest Light Rail projects – Toronto’s Eglinton Crosstown, Ottawa’s Confederation Lineand Calgary’s Green Line – all feature long underground segments that are fully grade-separated from pedestrian and vehicle traffic. Fully grade-separated construction has been a common trend among modern LRT systems, including Canadian and U.S. cities such as Calgary and Seattle.

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2017/10/04/sng-lrt-slowest-canada/

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2017/12/19/eight-things-to-know-about-surrey-lrt/

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/

http://bbscalemodels.com/2012/05/bombardier-2010

https://jf-databits.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT ::

https://jfdatalinks.blogspot.com/search?q=LRT:

http://www.news1130.com/2018/02/23/translink-new-skytrain-cars/

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/skytrain-capacity-announcement-1.4549128

http://theprovince.com/news/local-news/live-translink-to-make-announcement-about-increased-skytrain-capacity/wcm/1815e219-23f9-4968-9f92-0f51401db5ed

http://www.thevalleyvoice.ca/story%20photographs/October%202017/rail-for-the-valley%20image%201c.jpg

http://dailyhive.com/vancouver/translink-new-skytrain-cars-2020

"The deliveries of the initial 28 vehicle orders will coincide with the arrival of Evergreen Line SkyTrain service in 2016 and an additional 28 vehicles may enter service in 2017. It is conceivable that thew new vehicles will be using the newest Bombardier Innovia Metro 300 specification designed by Bombardier in 2010.

Among the interesting portions of the document and perhaps the most prominent is “APPENDIX 2”, which details the technical specifications that the new vehicles must meet.

This portion of the document reveals important details about the configuration of the new trains. It specifies that there is a “centre car” (a vehicle insertion between two end vehicles) as well as that the number of cars in a basic unit is to equal 4. This points to the fact that while the individual vehicles themselves will be of simlar length, the new vehicles will be arranged in a 4-car articulated configuration which will be connected and walkable from end-to-end. If they were just married pairs, as with the current ART 200 configs, there wouldn’t be any “centre cars” – they would all be “end cars”. With TransLink is attempting to maximize per-train capacity, ensuring that all ART 200 (Mark II) trains operate with a 4-car configuration (2x 2-car married pair), this specification does make sense. Up to 56 of these new cars may be in service by summer of 2017.

At present there are only two other Bombardier Innovia ART systems in the world using 4-car long vehicles, being the implementations to exist in Beijing, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia."

http://skytrainforsurrey.org/2012/02/12/translink-to-order-several-longer-skytrain-cars-in-2016-2017/

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