CHANGES TO TRAIN OPERATOR SCHEDULES Sample Clauses

CHANGES TO TRAIN OPERATOR SCHEDULES. Explanatory note This section sets out the procedure that Metrolinx will use in order to arrive at any Decision where competing aspirations for the use of spare capacity might arise between Train Operators and where high capacity utilization rates may adversely affect on-time performance and reliability. The Evaluation Criteria are designed to enable Metrolinx to use and protect the capacity it owns and manages on its own network for its own service, including future proposed expansion, during which period, spare track capacity will become increasingly scarce. It also provides for Metrolinx to offer varied and limited additional paths on a short term basis (a single Schedule Period) to Train Operators, without them being established as any form of future entitlement to Train Operators, who must re-request any changes or limited additional service with each Schedule Development period to which they are requesting such changes to apply. Where Train Operators wish to secure capacity for long-term use, detailed advance capacity evaluation studies will be necessary covering all of the necessary time periods that requested rights cover. Metrolinx may require infrastructure improvements to preserve the long-term capacity of its network. It is highly likely that such rights will also require significant new infrastructure in locations where the property footprint is already used, or planned to be used, to its maximum potential. Such additional new access rights will thus be subject to negotiation and scrutiny prior to Metrolinx being able to reach agreement or decline to grant the requested capacity.