Shift London

[danbrotherston]

According to the HTA (at least in Ontario), you wouldn't even need a drivers licence to operate it.

No person shall drive a street car on a highway unless he or she holds a driver’s licence.  R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8, s. 32 (2).

Sorry, I just had the HTA open!

A bunch of other parts contain the phrase ‘In this section, “motor vehicle” includes a street car’.

Here is where the legal definition of our train becomes important again.  Since it is not a street car, I would suspect that a drivers license would indeed not be required (and it certainly wouldn't be for the Montreal Metro).

That being said, if I had to guess, ever conservative around the regulatory line Grandlinq will have it as a requirement, and frankly, that probably does make some sense given it is operating within the roadway ROW, even if not as a street car.