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As I understand these buses run on express routes and on the highway. Anyone know if future orders will have to be equipped with seatbelts? I’m curious because GO Transit’s new SuperLos have seatbelts due to the new requirements that came into effect September 2020.

The historic cars are at Roncesvalles in preparation for the 100th anniversary. There will be a media event with a number of TTC vehicles. However, it will not be a public event and they plan to limit attendance which is hugely disappointing. Myself and others had hoped with such a high vaccination rate and many restrictions eased that there could be something more for the 100th anniversary. However, the TTC does say they hope to hold a larger celebration for employees and customers in 2022.

Decided to do some foaming of the first day of the 917 to the Zoo. I think it’s a great addition and I’m looking forward to trying it one day. Right now it’s every 1 to 2 hours on weekends and holidays only, but I hope this becomes a regular route in the near future.

Yes I agree. That stretch is pretty good even in rush hour. Port Union would be good since it would still connect with the 85 and in the TTC is looking at routing the 95 past there.

I like the idea of taking the 401 as a Pulse branch much the same way Züm does in Brampton.

The looks like the City being overly cautious. Apparently, if Ontario continues at the rate they’re going, 50% of adults could be fully vaccinated by the start of July. That, combined with the weather, should make this summer better than the last in terms of daily cases, hospitalizations, and deaths. In Quebec, cities are still anticipating holding events in July and August. In my opinion, a parade or CNE outdoors with a few minor health measures could be doable.

MUNI is also set to get a test batch of battery-electric buses from NFI too. Like the TTC, they’ll also test BYD and Proterra.

It’s so disjointed in Ontario. I’m relying on Twitter for vaccine updates. I don’t even have a Twitter account.

And of course Ontario still refuses to give more paid sick days.

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The thing about capacity is more to do with what the facilities can handle. They can’t really just stop producing non-COVID vaccines. And if they don’t have any excess capacity, they can start producing COVID vaccines. The government has funded facilities in Montreal, Saskatoon, and Vancouver. Unfortunately, like a lot of things, the approval and construction takes a lot of time. The Montreal facility is scheduled to open in September. Honestly, I think our vaccine situation is pretty middle ground. We’re not the best and we’re not the worst. The US and UK are pretty much outliers with lots of production capacity and influence. With no production domestically we’ve been able to catch up with parts of Europe. People bring up countries like the UAE doing better as well. They have been using a Chinese vaccine. Other countries use the Russian vaccine. For better or for worse those have been blacklisted by most of the Western world. They went by postal code, which might be a bit of a clumsy way of doing it. L1V in Pickering, for example, is a hotspot, but L1V encompasses almost all of urban Pickering. If you look at the Durham Health Neighbourhood level, you can see there is a lot of variation between neighbourhoods.

Two of my neighbours and a couple of friends in their 50s and 60s got the AstraZeneca vaccine weeks ago. They appear to be doing well. If you have any concerns, a quick chat with your GP would probably be helpful.

It took over a decade to go from the TTC’s first hybrid buses (which they had enough problems that they stopped buying) to the fleet of their LFS HEVs today. Development of the HybriDrive system goes all the way back to the late 90s. I guess it’s hard to predict how viable a fleet of 300 battery-electric buses will be in a couple of years.

TTC’s Green Bus Program: Preliminary Results of TTC’s Head-to-Head eBus Evaluation

Interestingly, the private coaches in Silicon Valley have bike racks on the rear. Dunno how that’s been working out, though.