charlie hebdoThe Bombardier cars are much nicer inside than gallery car designs. TRE can equip its fleet with used cars more easily than Metra. since TRE carries only 8200 passengers weekdays in 17 coaches. Metra carries 292,000 on weekdays, requiring a fleet of ~900 bilevel gallery cars + 340 electric lines bilevels.
They can't buy used from Toronto? Other cities use them as well. They don't have to replace all of the old cattle cars. Just one line as a trial would be nice or even a few trainsets on one line so Chicago riders can see what they have been missing. It would be like introducing Western made cars to the Eastern Warsaw Pact countries.........or a more current analogy, replacing a family's Chinese made "LAND WIND" with a British made "LAND ROVER".
https://autoweek.com/article/car-news/land-rover-sues-chinese-evoque-copycat
Chicago riders just have to experience the difference to demand more from their allegedly "public servants".
Canadian Dollar relative to the U.S. Dollar is falling like a rock under Tredeau, heck just wait 6-8 more months and a new Bombardier car will be half price.
n012944 https://www.fredericksburg.com/news/new-vre-cars-to-be-in-use-soon/article_ab19d3b2-fc1a-529a-bb52-16b4899b856d.html "The Operations Board agreed at its Friday meeting to sell six of the old legacy cars to Metra in Chicago for a total of $3,000"
https://www.fredericksburg.com/news/new-vre-cars-to-be-in-use-soon/article_ab19d3b2-fc1a-529a-bb52-16b4899b856d.html
"The Operations Board agreed at its Friday meeting to sell six of the old legacy cars to Metra in Chicago for a total of $3,000"
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