Articulated Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 26 minutes ago, randall said: when are the xde40s getting moved to mcnicoll? Who said that McNicoll is getting XDE40s? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted April 10 Author Report Share Posted April 10 53 minutes ago, randall said: when are the xde40s getting moved to mcnicoll? I don't know who told you that they are moving but that's not true. They are staying at MtD to replace the OG hybrid fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randall Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 9 hours ago, Mar_AC_23 said: I don't know who told you that they are moving but that's not true. They are staying at MtD to replace the OG hybrid fleet. oh, i thought that they were getting moved saw it somewhere here 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted April 10 Author Report Share Posted April 10 9411 has moved to McNicoll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumiko Oumae Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 13 minutes ago, Mar_AC_23 said: 9411 has moved to McNicoll From the looks of it, the 939 FINCH EXPRESS (and maybe the 39 FINCH EAST/339 FINCH EAST BLUE NIGHT) won't be the only route to get both LFSA and XDE60 artics, there are rumblings that the 43 KENNEDY will likely be converted to Artic operation in the coming weeks. In that case. 6 artics will replace 9 rigid buses on the 43A branch while the 43B will run with 4 artics in peak with 2 in the midday. In total plus the 43C, the route will operate with 12 artics during rush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Articulated Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 22 minutes ago, Kumiko Oumae said: From the looks of it, the 939 FINCH EXPRESS (and maybe the 39 FINCH EAST/339 FINCH EAST BLUE NIGHT) won't be the only route to get both LFSA and XDE60 artics, there are rumblings that the 43 KENNEDY will likely be converted to Artic operation in the coming weeks. In that case. 6 artics will replace 9 rigid buses on the 43A branch while the 43B will run with 4 artics in peak with 2 in the midday. In total plus the 43C, the route will operate with 12 artics during rush. What's your source on this? I checked with a reliable person in the know, and they have not heard anything about this upcoming switch. 43 Kennedy may get artics on an occasional basis (similar to how there was one last weekend, due to a driver switch) but no permanent allocations. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumiko Oumae Posted April 10 Report Share Posted April 10 2 hours ago, Articulated said: What's your source on this? I checked with a reliable person in the know, and they have not heard anything about this upcoming switch. 43 Kennedy may get artics on an occasional basis (similar to how there was one last weekend, due to a driver switch) but no permanent allocations. It was one of posts on Instagram that the TTC's Bus Head has shared. Please forgive me on that. Even the 129 McCOWAN NORTH can still get artics from time to time, like they used to when Malvern operated that route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Editorum Posted April 11 Report Share Posted April 11 9411 Entered service on the 903 Kennedy Station-Scarborough express 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 9447 is the only Mount Dennis XDE60 out on 29 Dufferin and has been the only one running since last week wonder when they’re going to send the rest of 9400-9434 to McNicoll and put the rest (9435-9467) in service at MT Dennis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted April 17 Author Report Share Posted April 17 51 minutes ago, Young said: 9447 is the only Mount Dennis XDE60 out on 29 Dufferin and has been the only one running since last week wonder when they’re going to send the rest of 9400-9434 to McNicoll and put the rest (9435-9467) in service at MT Dennis We'll have to wait and see as 9446 is a McNicoll bus so it could be that most of this fleet could possibly reside at McNicoll Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 16 minutes ago, Mar_AC_23 said: We'll have to wait and see as 9446 is a McNicoll bus so it could be that most of this fleet could possibly reside at McNicoll Apparently they plan to send 9446 back to Mount Dennis once they send over 9400-9434 and also mcnicoll wouldn’t need 46 artics plus the nova artics they already have Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted April 17 Report Share Posted April 17 Maybe they can convert the 43 soon. Could be aligned with getting rid of the 43C for low ridership. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabianColeyLOVESBUSES Posted April 23 Report Share Posted April 23 9400 has entered service on route 903 Kennedy Station- Scarborough Center Express. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted April 23 Author Report Share Posted April 23 7325 has entered service on route 168 Symington but is not tracking on the route. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Editorum Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 9415 Entered service on the 941 Keele Express 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted April 24 Author Report Share Posted April 24 2 hours ago, Editorum said: 9415 Entered service on the 941 Keele Express It was changed off with 7270. Didn't even complete a full trip. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifty4ever Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 On 4/4/2024 at 1:57 AM, Xtrazsteve said: The 41 is never getting artics again. There was enough complains about stupidly wide headways and I'm glad they reverted it to standard buses. Honestly everyone should be praying for the TTC to not convert their route. Artics just means wider headways over long travel times as they dwell longer at stops. They should only be deployed on limited stop routes. We can only dream that TTC will replace standard buses with them at 1:1 ratio. The 941 was converted to artics and that messed it up. You can be waiting 20 minutes for one to find out it's a standard bus as half the PM rush are not dispatched with artics. This along with the wide headway, slower travel times and terminating at Finch West instead of York U campus (since 2017) totally killed the routes' ridership. The same would likely happen with the 935 conversion. To actually answer your question. 10 is enough for a conversion based on today's headways. 12 if they want to do a 1:1 replacement (which they really should do). The question is do they really need artics on the route? It's 12" headways in rush hour and 16" in midday. It's terrible if they move it to 15" headway for rush hour and 20" for midday. At this point, they should just discontinue midday service. The 905 reverted back to standard buses after all this garbage dispatching. That's probably the best thing that happened to that route recently. Routes they should convert should be the 927, 939 or 960. The 935 doesn't seem to be a good candidate anymore. Maybe they should just take all the 36's artics and throw them on the 35. The 935 is 100% still a great candidate. Jane's ridership has been steadily increasing year by year. It experiences crush loads all the time during rush hour on weekdays. They once had local service every 4 mins and express every 8 minutes and it STILL wasn't enough because the buses just didn't have the capacity. That only caused extreme bunching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kumiko Oumae Posted Thursday at 04:34 AM Report Share Posted Thursday at 04:34 AM 52 minutes ago, lifty4ever said: The 935 is 100% still a great candidate. Jane's ridership has been steadily increasing year by year. It experiences crush loads all the time during rush hour on weekdays. They once had local service every 4 mins and express every 8 minutes and it STILL wasn't enough because the buses just didn't have the capacity. That only caused extreme bunching. Even the 335 JANE BLUE NIGHT may also get artics as well as the 35 JANE and 27 JANE SOUTH. Hell, they can retrofit the 9100s with Wi-Fi once they get removed from the 36 after Line 6 opens. Articulated buses on Jane would be a interesting move given the city is working on the Jane BRT running from Eglinton to Steeles as a byproduct of the cancelled proposed JANE LRT line that was started by David Miller under Transit City. The 905 was also one of them (and still uses them today) and even the 25/925 may also get artics since the corridor was proposed to be the DON MILLS LRT as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted Thursday at 05:46 AM Report Share Posted Thursday at 05:46 AM You only wished the TTC bought artics for service improvements instead of 1:1 capacity conversion. Given the budget crunch and unreliable artic ebuses, we won't see more new artics anytime soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bus_7246 Posted Friday at 12:56 AM Report Share Posted Friday at 12:56 AM 7328 entered service today on the 32 EGLINTON WEST 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted Saturday at 01:27 AM Report Share Posted Saturday at 01:27 AM 9410-939 Finch Express 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FabianColeyLOVESBUSES Posted Monday at 06:31 PM Report Share Posted Monday at 06:31 PM 9467 is now delivered to Mount Dennis. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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