ronaldmcgddonald

I've seen a suicide at St. Clair station, southbound track. I was at the front of the train, so I know what happened. I ended up having to walk from St. Clair to St. Andrew Station because of that. If anyone remembers a subway delay around the dinner hour on June 20 (or 21st, I cannot remember), that was probably it.

Oh, fatal? I wasn't aware of what happened, but I was on a train that was affected. When it left Union, we were told it was going all the way to Aldershot. Only after Clarkson did they announce that it wouldn't go any farther than Oakville. What bothers me is that 680NEWS reported the accident before the train even left Union, so I would have thought that GO Transit would have reported it earlier. I guess they just forgot to.

How are toll booths superior? I would think that they would cause congestion, with all of the vehicles having to slow down and manually pay. Are you upset from the driver's perspective, the administration's, or about the follow-up payment process?

Oct 31st, around 11:30 PM, there was some sort of delay announced that affected trains southbound out of Queen's Park.

When I saw "Halloween stories for TTC", I immediately thought of all of the noisy drunk people on the subway last night...

I guess what I've really been wondering the most about all of this is, how much better is LRT over bus service? I've got to check out Spadina to see for myself. I'm curious to see how much better it is from a passenger perspective.

So if they're considering extending the tunneled portion, perhaps it would be a good idea to just build an RT line? It's pretty much a waste to spend billions on a tunnel, and then run articulated streetcars through it. If anything, the tunnel should be built with conversion to RT in the future in mind.

I do not feel that snide remarks such as this constructively communicate a difference of opinion.

If the province is willing to foot the bill for a subway on Eglinton, then I think the TTC should stop complaining and thank them for it. It's better to spend $10 billion on a subway now than to spend $2 billion to install inferior LRT technology, only to have it removed in 20 years and replaced by a subway because of overcrowding. Subways are just getting more expensive to build, the sooner we get them finished, the better.

It sounds like the driver just made a mistake with driving away, he/she probably didn't realize that the baby had boarded the bus.

Really? That's excellent. I'm glad that they were thinking ahead.

I suppose it's a bit disappointing that Eglinton will only get a light rail line, but I'm glad to see that a downtown relief line is still being considered. I just don't want to see billions of dollars spent on a tunnel under Eglinton, just for light rail. I think Metrolinx and the TTC should consider constructing the underground portion of the Eglinton line with an expected upgrade to subway in the future. It's better to spend a bit more money now then to have to spend much more in the future basically re-tunneling the entire line for subway.

That's interesting. If the TTC reported on the delay as early as 10:07, but I heard announcements about it after 11:30, then how could Citynews be correct about the 20 minutes under the train? Maybe it's because there was an investigation/inspection afterwards that took more time.

Yeah, I was on the YUS, but south of there. The delay was still present when I left the line at around 11:35 PM. According to Citynews, a man was trapped underneath a train at North York Centre. Here's the news page that I found that out from, it's at the bottom of the page: http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_27082.aspx

In my opinion, I'm in full support of subway construction. It's an investment in the future. A subway line is usable for well over 100 years, as evidenced by some of the lines in London, England, for example. As time goes on, subways are becoming harder and harder to build, politically and financially. I think they need to get the infrastructure in place when they still can, instead of just hoping that an LRT line will do forever. It's going to be easier to build it now than later, so I applaud their plans to get it going.