Bus_Medic Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 7 hours ago, nfitz said: Ah ... I remember that ... Andray Domise ... and he finished in third with Rob Ford getting 59%. I guess Etobicoke gets what they deserve with such consistently poor choices. His replacement Michael Ford got 70% of the vote in 2016. As leader? He died 16 months after the election as a result of a rare stomach cancer - which isn't particularly surprising given he admitted (before the election that he got 58% having consumed every illicit (cancer-causing!) drug under the sun ... Uh, I’m talking about the living frod. I figured my reference to replacing him with Mrs. Elliott spelled that out clearly enough. Guess I was wrong. 2 hours ago, lip said: With the PC faithful being dumb enough to vote him in as leader the first time over Elliot, dont expect their intelligence to all of a sudden to shoot up and force Ford out in favor of her. Granic Allen probably has a better chance the way those people think. I don’t know, the more pragmatic lobbyists may be able to tell them which way the wind is blowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed T. Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 18 hours ago, dowlingm said: Not just the Fords - they don't get what they want without other Etobicoke pols like Grimes and Di Ciano and the Holydays enabling them (and their ilk elsewhere like Mammo and Minnan-Wong) Grimes is a bit more reasonable and responsive about transit than Junior Holyday and Junior Ford. But the WWLRT has not appeared on the Province's Grand Napkin Plan, so who knows if there will be any better streetcar service to Humber Shores. Also, keep in mind that despite all the talking, nothing new (beyond the Eglinton line to Kennedy) has actually been started in Scarborough. Whereas there are actual shovels in the ground on Finch Ave. W for the LRT. Perhaps the conclusion is that Scarborough voters are more easily distracted by empty promises. ETA: Then again, it seems like all the various level politicians from mid-Etobicoke have the hots for burying the Eglinton West LRT, at untold cost. Well, that's Holydayland for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 Intelligence quotient by postal code. You guys are effed. The lot of you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meltingtomato Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Ed T. said: Grimes is a bit more reasonable and responsive about transit than Junior Holyday and Junior Ford. But the WWLRT has not appeared on the Province's Grand Napkin Plan, so who knows if there will be any better streetcar service to Humber Shores. Also, keep in mind that despite all the talking, nothing new (beyond the Eglinton line to Kennedy) has actually been started in Scarborough. Whereas there are actual shovels in the ground on Finch Ave. W for the LRT. Perhaps the conclusion is that Scarborough voters are more easily distracted by empty promises. ETA: Then again, it seems like all the various level politicians from mid-Etobicoke have the hots for burying the Eglinton West LRT, at untold cost. Well, that's Holydayland for you. For budget hawks, they sure want to burn through money. Even with all the development going up, there still is a ton of room to have the LRT at level. It seemed like bigger concern in the past was the weird left turn arrangement, but now, who knows. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lip Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 It's ironic that DoFo along with his brother were the ones who were responsible for selling off the Richview Expressway lands which couldve been used to save billions by trenching the LRT, and now he wants to pay a premium of billions by tunneling the whole damn thing. So much for "respecting the taxpayers dollars". It's too bad half these taxpayers are clueless as to how much money the guy goes around wasting unnecessarily. Dont mind these Central/North Etobicoke voters, most of them love to complain about how things are but yet are myopic as to why things are the way the are and arent improving for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayside Observer Posted June 8, 2019 Report Share Posted June 8, 2019 There’s also the interesting irony that the west end which was always represented by the Fords & Co. are getting LRT lines, if anything at all, while across the city in Scarborough, it’s SUBWAYS, SUBWAYS, SUBWAYS with cost no object. Do the west enders even realize how short changed they’re getting by their own representatives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lip Posted June 9, 2019 Report Share Posted June 9, 2019 ^I wouldnt really describe underground LRT as being short changed, but the short answer to the question is no they dont realize that. As far those constituents are concerned, anything that's tunneled is a "subway" whether its an LRT vehicle, a boat, a bus, or pixie dust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallspy Posted June 9, 2019 Report Share Posted June 9, 2019 14 hours ago, lip said: It's ironic that DoFo along with his brother were the ones who were responsible for selling off the Richview Expressway lands which couldve been used to save billions by trenching the LRT, and now he wants to pay a premium of billions by tunneling the whole damn thing. So much for "respecting the taxpayers dollars". It should also be noted, however, that the identifying of the Richview lands as surplus and the starting of the process of selling them off was done by Miller - not Ford. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfitz Posted June 9, 2019 Report Share Posted June 9, 2019 56 minutes ago, smallspy said: It should also be noted, however, that the identifying of the Richview lands as surplus and the starting of the process of selling them off was done by Miller - not Ford. It certainly wasn't done in a day - though the vote to dispose of those particular parcels of land (offer it for sale) went to the Executive Committee and to City Council under Ford. Both Ford's voted in favour of selling the land. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallspy Posted June 9, 2019 Report Share Posted June 9, 2019 9 hours ago, nfitz said: It certainly wasn't done in a day - though the vote to dispose of those particular parcels of land (offer it for sale) went to the Executive Committee and to City Council under Ford. Both Ford's voted in favour of selling the land. Of course it wasn't. But it was under Miller's watch that staff identified the lands as surplus to the City's needs, and thus to be disposed of by BuildToronto. He didn't seem to have an issue with them being sold - and that was despite the announcement for Transit City already having happened. The staff at the Open Houses for the Eglinton Crosstown EA process certainly didn't seem to be bothered by it when they were asked. So he's at least as culpable of it as Rob Ford was. Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nfitz Posted June 10, 2019 Report Share Posted June 10, 2019 14 hours ago, smallspy said: So he's at least as culpable of it as Rob Ford was. Oh certainly - he should Miller should get some (much) of the credit for this. The right-of-way along Eglinton was massive! It was 125 metres at Kipling! It's still huge at 37 metres. We considered St. Clair very wide, and it's only 30 metres. Even the piece of St. Clair west of St. Clair West station with the portal is only about 30 metres wide. On the east side, it's briefly a bit wider, and at one point fits in the portal, a stop platform, and parking lane, and even a strip of grass between the sidewalk and the property line at only 35 metres wide. Eglinton remains wide enough for 6 lanes of traffic, LRT, platforms, and structures to grade-separate major (or minor!) intersections. It's only 4 lanes of traffic now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLRV4002 Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 I have a question about advertisements on the TTC. I saw the twitter post above asking people to spot the streetcar, which is 4023. That streetcar hasn’t been in service in weeks. I also saw 4123 downtown with the same wrap. My question is: since I believe ads are paid for by the number of weeks it’s on a vehicle, if that vehicle is out for repairs for a period, do they immediately move the ad to another vehicle or do they suspend the time the advertiser has to pay since their ad is just sitting in the yard ? I know with the poster ads it can be an easy swap to another vehicle, but with full wraps and stuff, what’s done if a vehicle breaks down ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smallspy Posted June 11, 2019 Report Share Posted June 11, 2019 1 hour ago, CLRV4002 said: I have a question about advertisements on the TTC. I saw the twitter post above asking people to spot the streetcar, which is 4023. That streetcar hasn’t been in service in weeks. I also saw 4123 downtown with the same wrap. My question is: since I believe ads are paid for by the number of weeks it’s on a vehicle, if that vehicle is out for repairs for a period, do they immediately move the ad to another vehicle or do they suspend the time the advertiser has to pay since their ad is just sitting in the yard ? I know with the poster ads it can be an easy swap to another vehicle, but with full wraps and stuff, what’s done if a vehicle breaks down ? It's been a while since I was in the industry, but it used to be that ad space was sold for 6 week increments, and by the "visibility" of the ad in terms of how many were installed on the vehicles. Exterior wrap ads were a different ball of wax, and to the best of my knowledge until recently were not (to be) installed on vehicles that were retiring. Normally, the fine print in the contract between the advertiser and the rep for the transit agency would cover the situations a vehicle that was out of service on a day-to-day basis (i.e. too bad, so sad). However, this might be a situation where a single vehicle was contracted to be used, and that the vehicle has been removed from service permanently. The contract may then call for a second vehicle to be wrapped to finish the term of the contract. Dan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BusDude Posted June 12, 2019 Report Share Posted June 12, 2019 Was on bus 8459 and it seems they are slowly updating the stop announcements on the buses. Aside from the previously mentioned pause after " next stop..." some street names have had there pronunciations corrected. Cosburn Ave is one street the pronunciation has been corrected Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion V Posted June 12, 2019 Author Report Share Posted June 12, 2019 For these raptor games, where do TTC park their 5 additional subways in anticipation of the exit crowd at Union? Is it at the nearest 5 pocket tracks close to Union? Where do TTC park the 25 additional buses and what route(s) do they run on when the crowd comes out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLRV4002 Posted June 13, 2019 Report Share Posted June 13, 2019 Anyone know what’s going on along Queen right now? Is it just traffic? The 501 wait times are more horrific than normal, next car eastbound to Neville at Roncesvalles is 43 minutes away Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OC Transpo/STO Fan Posted June 15, 2019 Report Share Posted June 15, 2019 What exactly are the differences between the 8000s and the 8100s besides design? I was under the impression that they were basically the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leylandvictory2 Posted June 16, 2019 Report Share Posted June 16, 2019 33 minutes ago, OC Transpo/STO Fan said: What exactly are the differences between the 8000s and the 8100s besides design? I was under the impression that they were basically the same. at least 2 differences 1) there is a button to reduce the heat released from the exhaust pipes. It is done to prevent the hot exhaust from catching the low hanging leaves from catching fire. 2) the mirror button is slightly different. It can used to adjust 2 mirrors on the right hand side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted June 16, 2019 Report Share Posted June 16, 2019 53 minutes ago, OC Transpo/STO Fan said: What exactly are the differences between the 8000s and the 8100s besides design? I was under the impression that they were basically the same. Besides the fibreglass end caps, the only real noteworthy change is that the radiator fan is hydraulically driven on the 8000s, and mechanically driven via a belt and mitre gearbox/electric clutch on the 8100s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novabusfan_2004 Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Not sure if this was mentioned previously but recently I have noticed that on VISION buses, there is a hesitation after “next stop”. For example the old announcement would say “next stop arrow road” and the new announcement would say “next stop, arrow road”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mar_AC_23 Posted June 21, 2019 Report Share Posted June 21, 2019 Just a thought: if the 79xx are retiring this year, then it might be easier to move them to Birchmount now and then Queensway gets more 84xx novas. When 3570-3654 get delivered later this year (and they get delivered to Arrow), then Arrow would only need to move the 31xx to Birchmount to replace the 79xx. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lip Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 Does anyone know what the deal is with the automatic locks on the windows with the new Novas? I'm referring to whether they are an option spec'd by the TTC or if they are just a new feature with the LFS in general. It really doesnt seem like the best thing to do at this time (although I get the idea why they did it) due to the airflow/patchy NovaBus A/C system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 2 minutes ago, lip said: Does anyone know what the deal is with the automatic locks on the windows with the new Novas? I'm referring to whether they are an option spec'd by the TTC or if they are just a new feature with the LFS in general. It really doesnt seem like the best thing to do at this time (although I get the idea why they did it) due to the airflow/patchy NovaBus A/C system. Expect to see them retrofitted on the rest of the fleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lip Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 ^Fantastic, looking forward to the cesspool of warm air over the summer months every summer! Nevertheless, appreciate the heads up on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bus_7246 Posted June 26, 2019 Report Share Posted June 26, 2019 1 hour ago, Bus_Medic said: Expect to see them retrofitted on the rest of the fleet. I don’t think it’s a retrofit. It looks like we went with a new style window frame bc I’ve seen a similar window frame lock on a newer (mid-2000s or later NABI) Denver bus. The regular latch is there on the frame, but installed shy of the tip-in holding clip I get why they’re locked when they arrive, but don’t get why they are still locked upon entering service Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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