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[–] Album@lemmy.ca 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

Fun facts:

  • The GO Train pictured in your lawful neutral served 35,234,400 passengers in 2022 and covers 526km connecting 27 cities (rough count).
  • The old diesel-electric fleet was replaced for higher efficiency/lower emission units about a decade ago and these models are now being converted into even lower emission units.
  • In the next decade a large portion of tracks will be electrified.
  • Gatekeeping mass transit is weird
[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I want a GO train. (I'm in the California Central Valley)

[–] rmd6502@mastodon.social 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

@uriel238 @Album yeah! Let's vote for a high speed rail, give the contract to a racist antisemitic jerk who will dig a few feet of test tunnel then throw a party with flamethrowers.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 2 points 10 months ago

*Elon entered the room*

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's really rather specific.

[–] rmd6502@mastodon.social 1 points 10 months ago

@uriel238 based on a True Story lol

[–] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

Go is amazing. I can get on a train in Toronto West, like 5 minutes from my house and that train takes me straight to Niagara falls in comfort. I can't wait till we get faster trains

[–] Fried_out_Kombi@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I heard the GO trains are undergoing some massive upgrades to provide better frequency and through-running lines. I wish they would do something to modernize the sorely lacking Exo trains here in Montreal. At least we got the REM now, though.

[–] zoe@infosec.pub 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yea man, i was wondnering too. trains are the least harmful, even the most polluting ones, the amount of torque they deliver for the amound of fuel consumed ratio is just beyond consideration

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Torque doesn't move things, power does.