Today's Sightings

[Xtrazsteve]

One of the Bmount OG VII (7873) did a 29E trip in the afternoon. Mostly they were going the 29G (internally designated local branch between Dufferin Stn and Dufferin Gate) due to traffic.

There were some Malvern artics (9090) on the 29A.

[wil9402]

On 8/5/2017 at 9:49 PM, Xtrazsteve said:

One of the Bmount OG VII (7873) did a 29E trip in the afternoon. Mostly they were going the 29G (internally designated local branch between Dufferin Stn and Dufferin Gate) due to traffic.

Are you sure it did an express trip? When I rode it the driver had 29E on the destination sign but was making all stops.

[Xtrazsteve]

2 minutes ago, wil9402 said:

Are you sure it did an express trip? When I rode it the driver had 29E on the destination sign but was making all stops.

All I saw was the bus driving by an empty stop. You might be right that it served local stops considering the amount of traffic in the area. They should had banned parking along Dufferin south of Bloor.

[H4 5600]

Line 2 shuttle had buses from every division today, no artics were on it though. I saw every bus on the shuttle today, Here are some of them: 1506, 1556, 7402, 7847, 8154, 8487, 8580, 8586, 8613, 8683, 8005. Interesting to see an airport bus on the shuttle, ive never seen that before. Below are 2 pics of the airport bus and 8154.

[Transit geek]

What a surprise! Travelling on Steeles in Scarborough nearly every day for the past month or so, I have been seeing at least one new-livery LFS on the 43 and 68 routes. Today I spotted one of them stopped at a red light at the corner of Warden and Steeles, and I managed to whip out my phone and snap this photo head-on from the front passenger seat of my car. The remarkable thing was that my car was accelerating while crossing Warden heading east on Steeles, moving at about 15-20 km/h perpendicular to the stationary bus - and the timing of my shot couldn't be any more perfect!

[Xtrazsteve]

1 hour ago, Transit geek said:

What a surprise! Travelling on Steeles in Scarborough nearly every day for the past month or so, I have been seeing at least one new-livery LFS on the 43 and 68 routes. Today I spotted one of them stopped at a red light at the corner of Warden and Steeles, and I managed to whip out my phone and snap this photo head-on from the front passenger seat of my car. The remarkable thing was that my car was accelerating while crossing Warden heading east on Steeles, moving at about 15-20 km/h perpendicular to the stationary bus - and the timing of my shot couldn't be any more perfect!

You could had roll down the window

[38 Highland Creek]

DRT:
 

8431 On 101 

8465 On 110 To Altona Rd.

 

TTC:
 

8644 On 198 To Kennedy Station

[blue.bird.fan]

August 9, 2017:

YRT 327 and 1515 on 7 Martin Grove.

[38 Highland Creek]

TTC:

1402 On 38A To Rouge Hill GO Station

=5052-5053-5104-5105AC-5102-5103> On Line 2 (Run 221) To Kipling

7441 Broke down facing west on Overlea Blvd. @ the east leg of Thorncliffe Park Dr.

7460 On 198 To Kennedy Station

8204 On 56A To Eglinton Station

8634 On 100A To Don Mills & Wynford (DOR)

8695 On 25B To Pape Station

8721 On 68 To Warden Station

AC-Air conditioning wasn't working on that car

(DOR)-Detour on route.  Due to hydro work at Concord Place, the 3 stops there are skipped: 

1. The stop on Corcorde Place 
2. north of Concorde Gate
3. The stop eastbound on Wynford Drive at Concorde Gate East Side

So that's why the DETOUR ON ROUTE P/R message is there on the signs.

[Transit geek]

On ‎2017‎-‎08‎-‎08 at 10:15 PM, Xtrazsteve said:

You could had roll down the window

My mom was in the driver's seat and she hadn't time to roll it down - besides, my car's windows aren't tinted.

On another note, one of the buses working the 129 on McCowan Road was in the new livery, and I could recall its first two digits were 14xx. Apparently the wiki has not been updated - it currently shows only 1422 as having the new livery. I think it was number 1403, but the wiki shows 1402 as having been recently rebuilt - can anyone confirm? (I'll post this to the rebuilds thread too.)

[TTC T6H-5307N 2252]

5 minutes ago, Transit geek said:

My mom was in the driver's seat and she hadn't time to roll it down - besides, my car's windows aren't tinted.

On another note, while travelling on McCowan Road I saw what I remember to be 1403 - which was in the new livery! - working the 129. Anyone to confirm?

According to transsee, 1403 is on the 129.

[38 Highland Creek]

TTC:

1069Seat On 38A To Rouge Hill GO Station

1109 On 199A To Scarborough Centre Station

4409 On 510B To Queens Quay And Spadina

7525, 8610 Both on 198 To UTSC

8628 On 198 To Kennedy Station

Seat-The far left seat 4th from the rear of the bus was wet so I took a photo of it from my iPhone.

Here's the photo:

IDK How that happened as I wasn't on that bus at the time the incident happened.

[TechnicaProductions]

Spotted W101 in the new livery earlier today, wasn't expecting to see these get it at all

[bus_7246]

1 hour ago, TechnicaProductions said:

Spotted W101 in the new livery earlier today, wasn't expecting to see these get it at all

That's the first one. It was actually painted down at Leslie Barns as well. Currently, there is one of the community buses getting prepped for the paint job too. 

[Ed T.]

GO double-decker turning from EB Evans Ave to the EB Gardiner ramp at Horner. Bus was signed UNION STATION and had passengers visible in the upper deck. (Sorry, I don't remember the route number, and the unit number was not really visible.) My guess is that it bypassed some congestion at the 427 by exiting and using Evans.

[7749]

I saw a repainted bus on 42 Cummer (I believe it was 8206).

[Kelvin3157]

8097, 8063, 1758, 1131, 1031 on 52 Lawrence West

7883, 7609, 8209 on Line 1 Shuttle Bus

1136 on 57 Midland

 

[Tramguy]

SATURDAY:   TTC

28 - 1800

56 - 1224

[TTCNLFBT]

84S (Sheppard-Yonge to Sheppard West Stn): 1818, 7774, 7837, 8165, 8354 

[7749]

3 Orion V's (yes, Orion V's) are at Birchmount Garage today. I only saw the number of 2 of them, which were 9402 and 9413.

[dayone]

3 hours ago, Rami A. said:

3 Orion V's (yes, Orion V's) are at Birchmount Garage today. I only saw the number of 2 of them, which were 9402 and 9413.

I'm surprised. I thought 9402 was towed to the scrap yard in June.

[7749]

4 minutes ago, dayone said:

I'm surprised. I thought 9402 was towed to the scrap yard in June.

9402 still looks like before. It didn't get touched.

[newflyerinvero]

On 8/12/2017 at 8:58 AM, Ed T. said:

GO double-decker turning from EB Evans Ave to the EB Gardiner ramp at Horner. Bus was signed UNION STATION and had passengers visible in the upper deck. (Sorry, I don't remember the route number, and the unit number was not really visible.) My guess is that it bypassed some congestion at the 427 by exiting and using Evans.

Probably may have been a 21 to Union in that case.

[BedardZ0754]

Sightings from Saturday August 12:

TTC 4036 on 510 Spadina

YRT 1396 on Viva Purple

GO 8308 on 21B to Milton GO

[leylandvictory2]

On Friday, August 11, 2017 at 11:39 PM, bus_7246 said:

That's the first one. It was actually painted down at Leslie Barns as well. Currently, there is one of the community buses getting prepped for the paint job too. 

Will ttc rebuild all wheel trans buses?