Today's Sightings

[Shemar]

TTC Visual Sightings (Buses I rode on today):

1401 - 116

1618 - 95

1135 - 32

1139 - 32

3440 - 116

[7749]

TTC 8608, 8127, 3491 was being used today as a shelter for the Vaccine Clinic at Hillcrest

[bus_7246]

TTC 3182 was today’s rad on the 109C  R A N E E

[Ultimate]

TTC:

8080 is on the 89
7914 is on the 47B
7947 is on the 84A

[2822]

TTC 8429 broken down on 189.

[TTC7447]

Visual Sighting
TTC 3740 on 501P Queen
TTC 9233 (Healthy Planet wrapped) on Line 1 Shuttle
TTC 3751 on 54B Lawrence East

On 6/20/2021 at 9:36 PM, TTC7447 said:

And not sure if anyone’s mentioned this yet, but the routing for northbound Line 1 shuttle has changed due to new lane restrictions on Yonge near St Clair.  The buses are unable to make wide turns at that intersection, so now they’re going east on St Clair, north on Mt Pleasant, west on Davisville back to Yonge where they get back to regular routing up Yonge St.

On 6/20/2021 at 11:17 PM, Articulated said:

Prior to the pandemic, Line 1 shuttles would typically drop passengers off at the main entrance on St Clair, then proceed via Avoca and Pleasant to the lower level bus terminal to load for the northbound trip. Your post makes it sound like this no longer occurs - does loading now occur on street level, at the same spot as buses are unloading?

On 6/21/2021 at 9:46 AM, TTC7447 said:

No, sorry.  They still unload at street and go to the lower level bus terminal for boarding.  Instead of turning right out of the terminal onto Pleasant and right onto Yonge, they now turn left onto Pleasant, left on Avoca, then right onto St Clair to follow the routing I described.

They were still following the previous routing for most of the pandemic until construction and lane realignment/bike lane additions + CafeTO came all at once.  I took the shuttle last weekend and can’t be too sure about when the routing changed as the driver of the bus I was on that day (Artic) turned left on Plesant, left on Avoca, and left on St Clair instead of right, and then struggled quite a bit to turn right onto Yonge (they had to reverse a few times at the intersection to make the turn without hitting anything).  As we approached Davisville that day, I noticed two other northbound shuttle buses turn right off Davisville onto Yonge.  

I took the shuttle yesterday and the day before - both followed the new routing I mentioned in my earlier post.

Northbound Line 1 Shuttle buses have returned to their regular routing between St. Clair & Davisville Stns:
Exit St. Clair Stn bus loop to westbound Pleasant, then right to northbound Yonge.

 

[wheelindealin]

TTC:

81 - 7912, 8009
100 - 7917

[John Oke]

Just saw a 505 from inside the Eaton Centre with both it’s pole and pantograph up at Yonge and Dundas 

[Downsview34.]

TTC:

9085 on 17 Birchmount 

[Articulated]

TTC:

2: 1056, 1064, 1072, 1079, 1108, 1118, 1121, 1146, 1147, 1251, 1277, 1290, 1292, 1315, 1361, 1367, 1374, 1382, 1383, 1387, 1389, 1395, 1419, 1559, 3357, 3359, 3369, 3415, 3455, 3463, 3482, 3493, 3507, 3524, 3547, 3549, 3648, 3652, 7926, 7930, 7944, 8007, 8083, 8088, 8355, 8415, 8441, 8513, 8572, 8594, 8621, 8633, 8707, 8751, 8753, 8799, 8814, 8825, 8849, 8864, 9084, 9085, 9086, 9087, 9091, 9092, 9093, 9095, 9096, 9097, 9098, 9100, 9101, 9102, 9103

This weekend's one-day Line 2 shuttle ended early, with subway trains returning to Kipling just before 6:00pm.

[GTAmissions1]

Via Transsee:

1394 on Viva Orange as of 11:20 PM on August 1st.

I have seen articulated buses appear from time to time on Orange especially since the regular 40 ft buses aren't always available with the mileage accumulated. 

[Ultimate]

TTC:

3216 at a Shelter bus at Kingston Rd / Galloway for a fire. 
EMS Bus was also present. 

[Ed T.]

7961 seen out yesterday as TRAINING BUS, missing bike rack.

[TTC7447]

Visual Sighting from last night
TTC 8853 on 162S Lawrence-Donway Short Turn, spotted off route at Lawrence & Railside Rd E (near Victoria Park) presumably heading back to Eglinton garage.

[Downsview34.]

GO bus 2595 having issues. Shut down in the middle of Yonge & Lakeshore. Been 35 minutes but nothing is working 

 

UPDATE: Bus turned on. Made a slow crawl into union Station on platform 1

[Ed T.]

Sorry, yesterday's sighting, 8003 on 55 WARREN PARK wondering where all the airplanes were.

[Ed T.]

TTC 8098, with 15 EVANS up, seen eastbound on the Gardiner by Parkside Drive.

I need to check if the 15 EVANS has had some routing changes I was not aware of.

[Shemar]

Visual Sighting:

Spotted TTC 3644 on the 116 heading southbound on Morningside Avenue at Lawrence Avenue East.

[Ed T.]

TTC Nove artic seen eastbound on Ingram approaching Kincourt at around 6 PM. Number unknown. Transsee does not show any artics on 59 MAPLE LEAF. Is it a 41 KEELE short turn? Or is it a RAD? Do artics participate in RAD? (From what i have read from Steve Munro, "bus type" is a slippery and amorphous concept.)

[Ultimate]

Spotted 9061 training on Kingston road at Galloway around 12:20 PM EST today. 

[Downsview34.]

GO Transit:

Training: 2452,2533

16: 8332,8419,8476

21: 2471(W), 8377(W), 8399(W), 8415, 8426(B), 8461(B) , 8465(B), 8515(B)

31:    2446(J), 2502(L), 2525(L), 2605(L), 8402(L), 8449(A)

61: 2564,2583

65: 2527,2574,2595,2611,8482

71: 2459,2545,8311,8403(E)

[Tramguy]

TTC

35 - 1061

45 - 1046, 3562

52 - 3523, 3556

111 - 7920

[blue.bird.fan]

TTC 1070, 1097, 3154, 7970, and 8185 working the 504 replacement bus from Broadview station to Roncesvalles/Triller via Dufferin and Queen today.

A mildly interesting thing I noticed was that Mount Dennis division buses were signed “504/505 Parliament&King” heading westbound, as they do during the normal long-term detour routing, but that buses from all other divisions were signed “504Q King to Roncesvalles/Triller via Dufferin&Queen”.

Heading eastbound, Mount Dennis buses were signed “504/505 Broadview Stn” and Wilson buses were signed “504 King to Shaw”.

This could definitely be a source of rider confusion. Does this have to do with the VISION system?

[Ed T.]

TTC 1060 in TRAINING BUS mode, westbound on the 401, exiting at Keele. I wonder if it's training on how not to blow up a hybrid on the hyway.

[Ed T.]

TTC 9048 sitting dead on Keele, SB past Ingram. Rear suspension sagging, I don't  know if that's the problem or a symptom of the problem.