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Posted by Xtrazsteve,

Enough of this madness. Next time be very clear in your post. Mention if you saw it in person or saw it tracking on Transsee or whatever you used. This way the reader can do the judging instead of you assuming. Then you won't get the backlash for cooking stuff up if it turns out to be false.
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Ed T.

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TTC 8000 seen down by Long Branch loop on 123C SHORNCLIFFE SHERWAY via SHERWAY.

It may have been wondering where the airplanes were. Well, with the north wind last night, the planes were coming in over the lake, crossing Brown's Line somewhere by Evans. Not this morning, so it was a little late.

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TTC 8000 seen this morning looking for where the airplanes are on 15 EVANS.

Pro tip: won't find them there.

Also, poor 7414 or whatever it is at Harper Diesel is looking even more decrepit. It's been moved some, whether under its own power or towed, I don't know.

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23 minutes ago, Gamer Studios said:

It doesn't necessarily have to be associated to a run. They have run buses before unscheduled usually as cover runs or another bus is assisting that bus.

Yes, YRT certainly has many cover buses that are out. However, those don't typically get signed into a route until it actually starts operating on it. There are also regular "unscheduled" runs that predictably operate ahead of known crowding situations. The 24 has one of those; however, today that run was filled by 1610, not 2234.

As for the user I was responding to, they posted within one minute of 2234 first appearing on Transsee. Certainly smells like someone sitting at home with the tracker open, waiting to be the first one to post a sighting of a new bus. Yet there's no actual electronic proof that 2234 operated at all, because that marker did not move for the 7 hours it was actively tracking. Not sure how you can claim a bus operated in service on a particular route if it didn't move, or pick up passengers.

Electronic tracking has been a tremendous benefit to the transitfanning community, but oftentimes it needs to be looked at through a critical eye, because mistakes and errors do occur. Like the times when there were regularly CLRVs tracking in the middle of Lake Ontario. In this case, it seems more likely that a maintenance person had 2234 logged into the system, perhaps as a test of its Init/GPS system, and maybe they forgot to log it out. But I think it's a better idea to wait to report it as being in service until after it gets logged into a real, existing block and is seen to be doing actual trips, or even better has a visual in-person sighting of being on the road.

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