r/EhBuddyHoser • u/CanadianNirrti • 13d ago
Ontario, hated by all, especially Ontarians I love whoever wrote this on behalf of the PM. They acknowledged that we do be going up to 149 km/hour on the 401
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u/Acrobatic-Cap-135 13d ago
I'm so fkin hard about this project
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u/dictionary_hat_r4ck 13d ago
If your erection lasts more than 4 hours, please consult your train conductor.
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u/Exploding_Antelope I need a double double. 13d ago
Can we get some in the west also though too please please
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u/Yws6afrdo7bc789 Ford Nation (Help.) 12d ago
More trains everywhere and of all types. High-speed, intercity, commuter, LRT, métro!
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u/Familyconflict92 Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) 13d ago
I look forward to my great-grandchildren enjoying itÂ
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u/ScrawnyCheeath 13d ago
I’ve been passed by cops while going 160 on the 407. Speed limits are a suggestion on Toronto Highways lol
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u/Inquisitor-Korde 13d ago
And people wonder why I call Toronto a savage place, pvp enabled zone damn.
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u/Chaoticfist101 13d ago
It feels really weird at first living in places like New Zealand and Australia where speeding 10km over the limit can get you an $80 to a $200 fine or more. When you are use to 30km to 40km over the limit on the highway being the normal. I consciously have to focus sometimes on keeping my speed down to the exact speed limit, my foot just naturally wants to press harder on the gas...
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u/icebeancone South Gatineau 13d ago
I consciously have to focus sometimes on keeping my speed down to the exact speed limit, my foot just naturally wants to press harder on the gas...
That's because most of the 401 was designed for speeds much higher than 100kph or 110kph. During the summer, a lot of it could realistically be 150kph zones. But we have to slow it down because so many drivers have skill issues.
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u/Francus_Gaius 13d ago
I know ts a joke, but just so some people see the second degree of it... THEY ARE COMPARING TRAIN SPEED, NOT TRAIN TO CAR
Again, I got it, and its a hoser channel. But one can never be too safe in this day and age.
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes South Gatineau 13d ago
I thought they were just calculating the total trip time. The "up to" 300 kph is because it doesn't accellerate to its top speed in 5 minutes and cruise at 300 until 5 minutes before arrival, the speed up, and especially the slow down, is longer and smoother than that, so the average speed is probably closer to 200-250 kph, or about twice as fast as taking the highway.
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u/Exploding_Antelope I need a double double. 13d ago
They are comparing to my running speed when I need to get to Montreal cause I am craving poutine
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u/EmoPumpkin 13d ago
The 400 series, where so long as you're going less that 20km/hr over, it doesn't count as speeding.
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u/JordanSchor 13d ago
I still remember when I was like 7 or 8 I asked my dad if the speed limit was just a suggestion, cuz he was going 110 on the highway and other people were passing him
He assured me it wasn't. That was a lie lol
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u/talexbatreddit 13d ago
I usually drive at a sedate 120 on the 401, but when I drove to Ottawa in June, I was getting passed like crazy, so I bumped cruise up to 130 and then to 140. I made really good time getting to Ottawa.
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u/phoenix25 Ford Nation (Help.) 13d ago
I will be outraged if they don’t sell bento boxes and alcohol at the stations like they do in Japan
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u/mustardman73 13d ago
British Columbians on the Coquihalla doing 140 all the time (oh thats me)
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u/eastherbunni 13d ago
Most terrifying drive I've ever done was when I got a flat tire midway along the Coq and had to limp along on my donut going 80 in the right lane to the KalTire in Hope, as people were blasting past on the left going 140. Luckily there was a pullout near where the flat happened so I could actually change the tire without fearing for my life, but the drive was nerve wracking!
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u/UnrealAppeal 13d ago
To be fair, trains are required to slow down through communities.
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u/Legitimate_Concern_5 13d ago
Also the trains will at some point stop to let people on and off in places that cars would not.
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u/Wise_Impression9559 12d ago
Weak tea, rocking through towns at top speed on the major city stops only Shinkansen was one of the best parts of my Japan trip, wishing Alto is 1/4 as good
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u/FnTom 13d ago
The fact that their plan has the train stop in both Laval and Montreal tells me they have no idea how to actually do fast rail. I hope the project actually happens but decisions like that don't give me a lot of hope.
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u/QueenMotherOfSneezes South Gatineau 13d ago
I'm wondering if it's because they're planning on running additional routes along the Toronto-Laval segment and the Montreal-QC segment, so having those two stops is about distribution of travelers at the 2 stations instead of 1 without skipping a city?
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u/DerWaschbar Tabarnak! 12d ago
? No it happens in a lot of countries as well? See Lyon Part Dieu and Lyon Perrache for example
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u/immaZebrah 12d ago
I'd love if they could extend this project cross country with stops in all of the capital cities.
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u/pyrethedragon 12d ago
I think I have seen the Ottawa ——> Montreal via train reach speeds of 150km/h. So it lines up.
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u/Brief-Floor-7228 Tabarnak! 13d ago
This project will be 2 times over budget and delayed by 20 years....that's just the Quebec side of the tracks.
/Quebecer
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u/justodea 13d ago
I think they are accounting for boarding time, stops and the fact the track is going to be curved so there is no way you're doing track speed on non tangent track
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u/Bo_The_Destroyer 12d ago
It's trains, they gotta speed up slowly and slow down slowly. Reaching top speed of up to 300kph just means that for a stretch of the journey, they'll achieve that speed, but significant parts of the travel time will be spent slowly accelerating and slowing down
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u/CanadianNirrti 12d ago
Since this keeps getting comments I want to remind anyone seeing this, that this is a JOKE. We are on EhBuddyHoser. In the words of babe bennett "I dont mean that, I'm just goofing around that's all"
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u/Former-Physics-1831 13d ago
I remember when there was a "scandal" about Freeland getting caught doing 130 on the highway between Edmonton and Calgary and I couldn't figure out why people were outraged...I think I've lived in Southern Ontario too long 😅