From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   According to Peter T. Daniels :   
   >Hey! Canada sent us those lousy Bombardier subway cars!   
      
   Now, now, they were built in Plattsburgh NY.  Credit where credit is due.   
      
   >And in a Nova(?) hour about London's new "Elizabeth Line" to Heathrow --   
   >which they seem to have located in all the worst places to try to run a   
   >new subway -- they said they got their cars from Bombardier. (Not a   
   >Quebec plant, but one up north in England or Scotland.)   
   >   
   >And the opening was delayed weeks while they figured out why the cars   
   >weren't working properly.   
      
   The problems were with signalling, due to stitching together of new   
   build underground railway with existing lines east and west of the   
   city. On the other hand, it's done, it works. I have hopped on a train   
   in the middle of London that leaves every 10 minuutes or less and in   
   half an hour been at the airport terminal. It's what the JFK Airtrain   
   should have been.   
      
   I would not hold my breath waiting for the Canada TGV, since this   
   1991 article said they were looking into it then, too.   
      
   https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/28/business/company-news-bombard   
   er-returns-to-earth.html   
      
   If they can get their act together, it's a good candidate for high   
   speed rail. A lot of people drive or fly between Toronto, Montreal,   
   and Quebec. Outside of the cities it's quite rural and pretty flat so   
   building new high speed lines would not be hard.   
   --   
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   John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for   
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