Grouping both VIA and canadian commuter as well. Metrolinx is ordering 36 additional double deck commuter cars.
It is interesting how GO Transit rarely has a funding shortfall as do transit organizatiosns South of the Border do? Or if they do have funding shortfalls I don’t see them in the paper as often as to how they cannot meet their ongoing maintenence or expansion requirements without a cash infusion.
Maybe its because they operate more efficiently than the US commuter lines. The US lines also know that all they have to do is cry about their precarious financial conditions and the “lilly-livered” politicians who talk about how they greatly care for their constituents during election season completely forget about the beleagured taxpayers once the elections are over.
Go Transit has fewer tunnels and bridges than most USA operationw, qne the Toronto subay is all post-WWII. Chicag, Boston, and NYC all have elevated sructures or subway tunnels from the 19th Century. (Boston 1898)