[GTALUG] I’m obviously way behind in my reading: IBM owns Redhat

Alvin Starr alvin at netvel.net
Thu May 28 07:45:37 EDT 2020


On 5/28/20 7:02 AM, James Knott via talk wrote:
[snip]
>> Toronto is a pretty late adopter of LRT tech, so in that sense, 
>> others have done our structural groundwork for us. I rode my first 
>> articulated urban LRT vehicle in Europe in 1967. The pilot LRT 
>> project for Toronto didn't materialize til 2001. Sure we had a couple 
>> of bendy buses but surface LRT was not on the Toronto transit radar 
>> at all; not for all those decades.
>>
>
> LRT used to be called "streetcars".  Toronto has had them for well 
> over a century.
There is also GO transit that started around 1967 but I guess that would 
best be described as HRT.


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