Mar_AC_23 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) 6 minutes ago, Young said: A few of the 8900’s are on west end routes like 45, 46, 123 and 76 That's because they're out as RADs 15 minutes ago, Eren Jaeger said: Bir>McN: #3123, #3174 3174 is the Staff Shuttle. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 3116 has moved to McNicoll Edited February 13, 2021 by Shemar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 Wilson is an all-Orion division (except for the few artics), while many of Wilson's routes (namely those east of Yonge Street) are moving to Eglinton or McNicoll, which will be full Nova divisions. So with many Wilson drivers probably switching divisions to follow the routes that are leaving, they likely need familiarization training moreso than drivers from Nova divisions moving to another Nova division. Every other division has at least some Novas, so their drivers would already have training and familiarization with operating Novas at least occasionally in service; therefore, not much of a need to retrain, or at least they already have the ability to train on their own vehicles. For late evening drivers, it might be easiest to have them do a couple runs after their shifts end at say 11pm or 2xm rather than either pulling them off their regular work (and requiring other drivers cover for them), or have them come in at 9am when they're normally sleeping. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 (edited) 3107 3109 3111 3118 3120 3121 3125 3127 3128 have moved to McNicoll. Edited February 13, 2021 by Shemar 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bus_7246 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 8915 has finally made it to Birchmount 8916 is still probably in the repair shop at Eglinton 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 13, 2021 Report Share Posted February 13, 2021 3130-3174 are now the remaining 3100s at Birchmount. They'll move to McNicoll when more 8900s from Eglinton move to Birchmount. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MSF1000 Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 3507 is now at Arrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 1 hour ago, MSF1000 said: 3507 is now at Arrow It's at Malvern now --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8916 is now at Birchmount Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK78 Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 21 hours ago, Shemar said: 3130-3174 are now the remaining 3100s at Birchmount. They'll move to McNicoll when more 8900s from Eglinton move to Birchmount. Is eglinton gonna get other buses, or not since McNicoll will probably take over some of its routes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobayashi Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 On 2/12/2021 at 8:22 PM, Articulated said: Wilson is an all-Orion division (except for the few artics), while many of Wilson's routes (namely those east of Yonge Street) are moving to Eglinton or McNicoll, which will be full Nova divisions. So with many Wilson drivers probably switching divisions to follow the routes that are leaving, they likely need familiarization training moreso than drivers from Nova divisions moving to another Nova division. Every other division has at least some Novas, so their drivers would already have training and familiarization with operating Novas at least occasionally in service; therefore, not much of a need to retrain, or at least they already have the ability to train on their own vehicles. For late evening drivers, it might be easiest to have them do a couple runs after their shifts end at say 11pm or 2xm rather than either pulling them off their regular work (and requiring other drivers cover for them), or have them come in at 9am when they're normally sleeping. So that is why McNicoll isn’t capable to operate or maintain Orion VIIs. When MD opened in 2008, they gave them Vs and Fishbowls so mechanics can fix the buses easier than the newer, prone VII NG Hybrids. But with bus technology evolved in recent years I guess, perhaps McNicoll’s staff gave them LFS as opposed to VIIs (parts are getting quickly expensive) for the mechanics to simply maintain with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 2 hours ago, MK78 said: Is eglinton gonna get other buses, or not since McNicoll will probably take over some of its routes? Eglinton is only giving buses to Arrow and Birchmount (a few 88xx and the rest of the 89xx) but they won't be getting any buses in return. Eglinton is losing routes to Birchmount, Malvern, and McNicoll but is getting routes from Birchmount, Mount Dennis, and mostly from Wilson. The route that Eglinton is getting from MtD is the 141. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 30 minutes ago, Shemar said: Eglinton is only giving buses to Arrow and Birchmount (a few 88xx and the rest of the 89xx) but they won't be getting any buses in return. Eglinton is losing routes to Birchmount, Malvern, and McNicoll but is getting routes from Birchmount, Mount Dennis, and mostly from Wilson. The route that Eglinton is getting from MtD is the 141. I’ve also heard that some Nova Hybrids from Malvern are moving to Mount Dennis don’t know if that’s 100% true though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 14, 2021 Report Share Posted February 14, 2021 26 minutes ago, Young said: I’ve also heard that some Nova Hybrids from Malvern are moving to Mount Dennis don’t know if that’s 100% true though That is definitely not true. Arrow and Malvern will be the only divisions with the nova hybrids with most of them ending up at Arrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Shemar said: That is definitely not true. Arrow and Malvern will be the only divisions with the nova hybrids with most of them ending up at Arrow. There appears to be the desire to consolidate the NG hybrids at malvern over the long term. I expect at least a portion of the 3400s to migrate to mount Dennis in their stead. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted February 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 4 hours ago, Eren Jaeger said: So that is why McNicoll isn’t capable to operate or maintain Orion VIIs. When MD opened in 2008, they gave them Vs and Fishbowls so mechanics can fix the buses easier than the newer, prone VII NG Hybrids. But with bus technology evolved in recent years I guess, perhaps McNicoll’s staff gave them LFS as opposed to VIIs (parts are getting quickly expensive) for the mechanics to simply maintain with. Mtd was given the easiest buses to maintain. The same is happening up McNicoll. That apparently doesn't have anything to do with being old. They also thought there NGs were easy to maintain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 15 minutes ago, Bus_Medic said: There appears to be the desire to consolidate the NG hybrids at malvern over the long term. I expect at least a portion of the 3400s to migrate to mount Dennis in their stead. Yea I think so to and also if Mount Dennis is getting the 927 and MT Dennis buses aren’t that good on the highway they would have to swap some of Malvern buses with their NG’s 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 1 hour ago, Bus_Medic said: There appears to be the desire to consolidate the NG hybrids at malvern over the long term. I expect at least a portion of the 3400s to migrate to mount Dennis in their stead. Oh. So that would mean that Wilson would get some 3400s as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byfold Posted February 15, 2021 Report Share Posted February 15, 2021 What about Queensway? They need new buses too ya know!!!! 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTCNLFBT Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 3126 has moved to Arrow. It was on 984 this morning. Via Transsee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobayashi Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 6 minutes ago, Chris B said: 3126 has moved to Arrow. It was on 984 this morning. Via Transsee. McN>Arw: #3129, #3176 (on route 996), #3180, #3181 (on route 165), #3182, #3183, #3189, #3190 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 9 minutes ago, Eren Jaeger said: McN>Arw: #3129, #3176 (on route 996), #3180, #3181 (on route 165), #3182, #3183, #3189, #3190 Wonder why they all moved back unless they’re RAD’s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 16, 2021 Report Share Posted February 16, 2021 1 hour ago, Young said: Wonder why they all moved back unless they’re RAD’s They're definitely not RADs but the movements are most likely temporary. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTC Guy Posted February 17, 2021 Report Share Posted February 17, 2021 5 hours ago, Shemar said: They're definitely not RADs but the movements are most likely temporary. Most likely because of the weather this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted February 17, 2021 Report Share Posted February 17, 2021 3126 3129 3180 3189 have moved back to McNicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted February 17, 2021 Report Share Posted February 17, 2021 I don’t think this is the right thread but is Arrow Rd still getting the 52 Lawrence West from Wilson ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bus_7246 Posted February 17, 2021 Report Share Posted February 17, 2021 1 hour ago, Young said: I don’t think this is the right thread but is Arrow Rd still getting the 52 Lawrence West from Wilson ?? Assumably so. Next week, the work selection will be posted for the April board period Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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