busman Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 As of August the 25th, the TTC is now required to call out ALL the stops on the buses. Has anyone heard any driver calling the stops out? I personally havent heard any drivers call all the stops out yet. Major intersections and stuff like that i hear, but not ALL stops as they r now required. Anyone else have any info on this... ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yrt+viva=1system Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 As of August the 25th, the TTC is now required to call out ALL the stops on the buses. Has anyone heard any driver calling the stops out? I personally havent heard any drivers call all the stops out yet. Major intersections and stuff like that i hear, but not ALL stops as they r now required. Anyone else have any info on this... ? i understand calling out the major intersections but all is just insane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captaintrolley Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 This will just add to all the noise already on the bus. Engine noise, people on cell phones, certain races of people talking loudly to each other from across the aisles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
38 Highland Creek Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 Most recently, I was on the 43B route going from Kennedy Stn. to Scarborough Town Centre when I met the driver calling out all the stops along this route. Man, I'd like to have his voice on the automated stop-announcer not only on the buses and streetcars, but on the subway trains as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallspy Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 As of August the 25th, the TTC is now required to call out ALL the stops on the buses. Has anyone heard any driver calling the stops out? I personally havent heard any drivers call all the stops out yet. Major intersections and stuff like that i hear, but not ALL stops as they r now required. Anyone else have any info on this... ? I can't recall one trip in the past two days where I didn't hear the vast majority of the announcements being called. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wil9402 Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 Last week on route 94 I had a driver who actually paused the Automated Announcements and call out all the stops himself. Today on the two buses I rode only one driver called out stops, and he only called out major stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shambala Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 Last week on route 94 I had a driver who actually paused the Automated Announcements and call out all the stops himself. Today on the two buses I rode only one driver called out stops, and he only called out major stops. My regular mid-afternoon driver friend on the 98 always calls all the stops. He told me there are stop sheets printed at his division(wilson) with every stop for every route and joked that next week he will see a 20 min. video on the 'proper procedure for calling stops', huh? yeesh, lighten up people. Anyway, there should be no excuses after that, and apparently they will be monitored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wil9402 Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 My regular mid-afternoon driver friend on the 98 always calls all the stops. He told me there are stop sheets printed at his division(wilson) with every stop for every route and joked that next week he will see a 20 min. video on the 'proper procedure for calling stops', huh? yeesh, lighten up people. Anyway, there should be no excuses after that, and apparently they will be monitored. Haven't they always been monitored? I've heard many surface drivers/operators (both Bus and Streetcar) say that supervisors that look like regular passengers get on random TTC vehicles and see if the driver calls out stops, but I don't know what happens if the driver doesn't call out the stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
502 Downtowner Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 I have ridden on 4 Queensway runs in the last two days and none of the drivers were calling out any stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mpass19 Posted August 28, 2007 Report Share Posted August 28, 2007 I find it very rare that the driver calls out ALL the stops, it's usually just the main streets unless the bus and route have the automated announcements. I think it's really unfair to expect the drivers to be able to memorize and recall every single minor street. I always hated it when people start asking for directions like the driver knows every single laneway and address in Toronto. I was on Steeles West on the weekend and the driver was really trying to call most of the stops but I couldn't hear him because of the background noise on the bus so it really didn't help much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Felix Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 Ironically enough, all the TTC vehicles I've ridden today have all their stops announced. I'm not kidding. Of course this may vary from driver to driver . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busman Posted August 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 The driver wasnt joking. All operators r doing a training coarse on how to properly call out the stops and there is a video to watch. Birchmount is starting the training this friday. My regular mid-afternoon driver friend on the 98 always calls all the stops. He told me there are stop sheets printed at his division(wilson) with every stop for every route and joked that next week he will see a 20 min. video on the 'proper procedure for calling stops', huh? yeesh, lighten up people. Anyway, there should be no excuses after that, and apparently they will be monitored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivablue5215 Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 I'm testing out 29 tomorrow, but Malvern drivers appear to call out major stops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6254 Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 I usually take the 224 and 39, there is no announcement 70% of the time, about 60% the 39E drivers even don't mention that his / her bus will run as express before the last local stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JN HSR Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 There's one driver in Hamilton that calls out major stops over the bus' intercom. I've had him a few times on 'Route 2 Barton' but haven't had him in a few months or so. I actually thought it was pretty cool and commented to the HSR about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buschic Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 There's one driver in Hamilton that calls out major stops over the bus' intercom. I've had him a few times on 'Route 2 Barton' but haven't had him in a few months or so. I actually thought it was pretty cool and commented to the HSR about it. look for him on the 1 King or the 5, 52, 5A, 5C. sometimes even the 41 Mohawk or the 26/25 upper wellington/wentworth. or even on the 10 Beeline. there are a FEW hsr people that call stops, but usually they dont, I have sent a copy of the official TTC notice (the drivers recieved it in thier pay envolopes) to a few of my friends in HSR. It was a conversation piece for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
502 Downtowner Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 I'm testing out 29 tomorrow, but Malvern drivers appear to call out major stops. I was on the 29 yesterday, and my driver didn't announce anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
409 Thornton Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 The driver on the 190 Scarborough Rocket did half and half he called out the stops from Don Mills to Victoria Park and used the automated system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wil9402 Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 The driver on the 190 Scarborough Rocket did half and half he called out the stops from Don Mills to Victoria Park and used the automated system 190 doesn't stop between there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion VIII Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 I was on the 29 yesterday, and my driver didn't announce anything. A far cry from when the last time I rode the 29 with you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
busman Posted August 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 You would think that now that they have to call it out by court order they would... But since most divisions are starting the training this week, maybe we should give time for all drivers to do the training then see if they start calling them all out. At Birchmount, they wont give you the list with all the stops on it until you have done the training. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ttcgeek Posted August 29, 2007 Report Share Posted August 29, 2007 hl7534, you wont like what I'm about to say. Today on 7405 on the 34, NONE of the stops were called out. The auto annouce wasn't annoucing nor was the driver. It took about almost half an hour to get from Eglinton Station to Pharmacy. 7487's annoucements were working. The driver of 6715 was annoucing transfer points. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
409 Thornton Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 190 doesn't stop between there. Then it must have been Warden I thought it was but I didn't check Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wil9402 Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 Then it must have been Warden I thought it was but I didn't check 190 does go between Don Mills Station & Victoria Park Ave but it goes express between there. Maybe you rode the 224 Victoria Park or 85 Sheppard East. What type of bus were you riding? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buschic Posted August 30, 2007 Report Share Posted August 30, 2007 ok, today I was in Malvern Territory, the driver on the 133 this morning called ALL the stops (I rode out to the end of the line) This afternoon the driver on the 131 Nugget called out them all too. The stupid RT was no stops called both this morning and this afternoon, I hate that thing! on the 30 Lamibton stops were called , it was NOT the regular driver though. this morning both 7742 and 7540 on 65 Parliment, the system worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now