01-31-2016, 01:35 AM
(01-31-2016, 12:14 AM)MacBerry Wrote: To lower the tracks would mean lowering the platforms to meet train door entrances and as they lower the tracks and then lower signals and rehabilitate the whole train level infrastructure, drainage, electrical infrastructure and, and, and, ...
The platforms are already way too low — they should be at the level of the lower level of a GO coach, with the possible exception of a few platforms for VIA. So they wouldn’t need to be lowered.
Everything else, though, makes the idea of lowering the tracks probably a non-starter.
I think the rigid contact system idea is probably the way to go. It’s still a screw-up that this is a matter for discussion now; electrification has been a project for long enough that no renovation should have been undertaken without planning for it. Unless it’s not really; maybe what is really going on is detail design or something, or maybe the reporter asked somebody who doesn’t know what the plan is and they started speculating.