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Given how much time it seems to take the 192 to loop and loop between T1 and T3, might it not be faster for the passenger, to be dropped only at T1, under the station there, and take the train to T3? The only inconvenience is the extra elevators really ... but more than once, it's crossed my mind after having boarded the bus at T3, that it would have been faster to just take the LINK to T1 and board there.

This is what passengers on the Metrolinx Airport Rail Link to downtown will have to do, which will stop at the T1 station.

Wow, there's been automatic doors since day one?

I fondly remember being able to jump on the AMT trains in Montreal while they were already in motion. Guess it's been a long time since people have done that here.

Steve Munro is saying that tentatively construction will begin at the end of July. At the rate things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if this slips a few more weeks, and it isn't hard to imagine that it won't happen until after the Ex.

My understanding is that Presto does not have day pass functionality. If you take three or four trips on the same day, you will get a per-trip discount, but you won't get the third, fourth, etc. ride for free as you would with a day pass.

Hopefully, it's that it doesn't have day pass (or at least daily price capping) yet.

Can't see any reason they couldn't do this in the back office, with the current hardware - even if it requires a credit overnight (though would probably require a more timely arrival of charges showing up ... I've seen some take almost a week to show up in my account, though the balance always seems correct).

I only found the one unit, I don't know if there was another, but in my worry & panic of missing the connection, I didn't find another machine, the bus driver was awesome though..

I'm not familiar with Mimico, but every station I've used on Lakeshore has multiple units Offhand, I can't think of one that doesn't have 4 units. Sometimes quite close together.

And none of the stations I use the most have bus service, and are often unstaffed!

Kudos to the bus driver though.

incidents like this is why i dont want a presto card.......among other reasons

It is rather a rare event. I could imagine it's much more likely to miss your train, waiting to buy a ticket. And personally, I've made trains with Presto, I'd never have made, if I'd stopped and tried to validate a 10-ride ticket.

ok, had a really weird incident yesterday...

tapped on with my presto at mimico no issues, it did the proper beep, caught my train to aldershot.. went to tap off, no beep!, the damm thing wouldn't tap me off! I touched the machine gently with my card, as the CSR told me to do.. no beep, I FREAKED! I went to the bus driver, he got hold of someone & they figured out that the machine in the station had shut off.... WTF??

Never seen that before. Some kind of power failure or computer failure I guess.

I guess the lesson is that if nothing seems to happen, then try another unit.

There are a number of sections west of York that have fresh concrete patches, indicative of work having been done.

Indicative of track replacement? Or just repair work.

Given how many of those rules I've seen broken, the rules aren't actually enforced ... so why worry?

Those dates are the exact same as the ones in one of the budget presentations that I posted on here earlier in the year.

EDIT: Here it is in one of the Budget Committee agendas from January 16th on page 39, http://www.mississau...ry1617part2.pdf

That's such a great image in that huge PDF, I thought that it would be worth posting here!

The GO website says:

GO to Niagara

Stay tuned for information on our 2012 seasonal excursion GO Train service between Niagara and Toronto.

Regular service didn't begin last year until June 24th. Perhaps the Victoria Day service wasn't successful?

On another board, a GO insider has posted that the Niagara Falls weekend service starts June 22nd, and the Barrie weekend service starts June 23rd.

Actually it's called bitterness and carrying a chip on one's shoulder, of which extreme and unnecessary rudeness is an obvious and predictable byproduct.

Ah ... I guess that makes sense.

So should one treat someone in that unfortunate position the same as everyone else?

2. Exactly how many cars are in revenue service right now? I've lost count lately...

15 trainsets have been accepted according to the May 1, 2012 CEO's report - (large file - http://ttc.ca/About_...2025%2C%202.pdf on page 19 which is page 21 of the PDF).

So 90 cars, if that's correct.

have any of you heard of dyslexia & legally blind? hmm, most words are spelled much differently than they sound with a screenreader...

just ask most blind people why their spelling is so bad, its something that is a huge problem in the blind community, though with an iMac, I've made adjustments, using the spell checker built into it..

it was not personal, what I said, but seriously, if you really think about it, he should have gone & sent the admin's a personal note or email, asking for the reason for the banning..

Ya'all need to lighten up...

Is there something I'm unaware of about blindness and dyslexia that allows one to use phrases like "If you really had a brain cell"? I assumed that it was just extreme and unnecessary rudeness, but I thought perhaps I should check on that first.

 

Also, I found it interesting that in the service changes page for 509 they mentioned the Sunday PCC service. They posted this in the news section in previous years.

They might yet. I checked this morning to see if there were any service changes listed for next week, and there was only the 17 name change listed. So all these have only been up for a couple of hours or so.

 

 

hey everybody i ask around the terminal today and its because the rents are too much thats why they did what they did with greyhound

Something is very wrong on several levels, if Region of Waterloo is charging so much rent, that Greyhound won't pay it, and yet is then allowed to park a portable ticket office in the middle of the bus lane!

The space inside has probably been gobbled up in the meantime. But perhaps another reason is that it may be intended as temporary.

What with? Used to be tons of space in the new terminal compared to the old Duke Street terminal that had no problem with counter space. From the size of the portable, you only need a corner somewhere.

Used to spend a lot of time there ... but perhaps only about 60 seconds in the last decade, walking from a Greyhound bus to a number 7.

Why would they put a temporary ticket booth in the middle of the bus lanes, when there is all that space inside the Charles Street terminal?

I don't think anybody is trying to justify his behavior, it's plain wrong, no doubt but I think they are trying to suggest that you consider yours. Your extreme outrage is pathetic, put this situation in context, it's not a wide spread problem and it's not like any one was injured. Obviously it must be stopped and the offender punished but the media circus and armchair cricket outrage is simply pathetic in my opioin.

Extreme outrage? I haven't even suggested he be fired. I'm simply surprised at those here who seem to condone such stupid behaviour. Not sure how disagreeing with someone is equated with extreme outrage!

Not a widespread problem? Who HASN'T seen a streetcar driver or bus driver using a cellphone for talking or texting while driving. Certainly not common on subways ... though there's so few spots where you have coverage.

yeah but he didnt report the driver directly to the proper authoritys, he used youtube......... seams like a person who really isnt that concerned, just like the jerk who posted a picture of that one sleeping collector for a laugh and it went viral,

I don't see an issue on where he posted it. There's no right for a driver to be protected from their stupidity. The poster broke no law. It's not like the sleeping station attendant where there was a medical issue involved.

If operators are going to break the law, then I don't see any reason why they wouldn't expect video of this showing up in public. I'm surprised that so many here are so interested in protecting the non-existent rights of the driver, than those he put in mortal danger.

You left out where exactly is this taking place.

Presumably where the Greyhound terminal is/was on Sportsworld Drive. Google sports world greyhound

 

 

Dumber than that typo? Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Your equating a typo to doing something so spectacularly stupid that your force the CEO of a 10,000+ organization to make a press release?

People need to stop being such attention hogs when it comes to the TTC. This has been stated many times, but if a driver isn't doing something right then just go up to them and tell them. Or get off. No need to take a video and make it viral.

Oh, it's the passengers fault for reporting the idiot who was driving the train?

Please, enlighten me if I have further missed your point.

Personally, I'd prefer that if some fool was to walk in front of the train on that open track north of Bloor street, that the operator would actually have time to notice him in the bushes nearby, blow his horn, and slow down to minimize the injury, than than texting something. Is that a bad thing? Not sure why you are trying so hard to justify such idiotic behaviour.

You're comparing apples to oranges. The majority of the deaths by subway are people jumping under their own power.

You miss my point entirely.

My point is that it's a powerful vehicle that can easily kill each other. The combination of a missed signal, and a failed safety device or two, and you could kill a lot of people. And typing on your blackberry while your typing on it is about the dumbest thing I can think of.

I'm amazed that so many are so quick to defend such utter stupidity and callous disregard for the safety of their clients.

 

That said - distracted operating is just that, and can lead to mistakes - but it is far less dangerous (in theory) to be operating a subway train than say a streetcar, bus or commuter train.

And yet more people are killed by subway trains in Toronto every year than streetcars or buses combined, even though we have about over 2,000 surface vehicles, compared to only about 120 train sets.

What do you expect, exactly? The managers at Metrolinx to go out there tomorrow, shovels in hand? There has to be a proper process to all of this, you know.

We had a proper process in place a year ago in early 2011 when completion was 2014. Hard to see why delaying a year, adds 4 years to the completion date.

You know, if the driver pulled out his phone, glanced at it and put it back. Or he pulled it out while stopped, and did something and put it back. Or it was the guard texting while the train was moving ... I can see that people might have a valid point that complaining about it is unjust.

But a train operator using a mobile device for an extended period between several stations? WTF? How can anyone even start to justify such idiotic behaviour that puts people lives in danger.

That being said, there didn't seem to be enough information in the video to identify the driver - not that I noticed anyways.

Third of all, it's very unlikely that any passenger would make any kind of useful witness.

Oh, I don't know about that. They should have all, at least near the front of the train, been asked individually in private if they heard the train horn before the accident.

I've heard no reports that the horn sounded. Which does raise some serious questions. Given how rarely the horn is used in that area, and how jarring it is when they do use it unexpectedly, there was some information to be had.

That being said, I don't know why they didn't work harder to quickly move any other trains in the area, quickly into a platform somewhere. They knew it would be 2-3 hour minimum before the line was re-opened. GO knew within minutes that there was a fatality.