lifty4ever Posted February 6, 2023 Report Share Posted February 6, 2023 18 minutes ago, H4 5600 said: Thats 8963, its been doing training for MTD operators today, as 8956-8964 have recently been moved to MTD. Interesting. Will any of these Nova's be equipped with wifi? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tunnelrat Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 Looks like Malvern is no longer exclusively dispatching nova hybrids with wifi on the 102. Lots of Orion's on the route. I have noticed this more and more but today was really noticeable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptorjays Posted February 8, 2023 Report Share Posted February 8, 2023 I know a lot of route’s schedule has been recovered close to pre-pandemic. I use either 49 Bloor West or 50 Burnhamthorpe often.. and 49 had better headway than 50 most of the time during the weekdays pre-pandemic. Morning Rush 49 Bloor West: Every 10 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 11-12 min Day-time 49 Bloor West: Every 15 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 20 min Afternoon-Rush 49 Bloor West: Every 12 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 15 min (It was 13 min before but was increased due to something called “reliability improvement” by the TTC) While 50 is now back to pre-pandemic. 49 is still well below the pre-pandemic level.. As it is every 30 min outside of rush hours (including day-time) Rush hour is now worse than Burnhamthorpe as it is running every 16-17 min Are there any routes which has still well below service level compared to pre-pandemic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gil Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 6 hours ago, raptorjays said: I know a lot of route’s schedule has been recovered close to pre-pandemic. I use either 49 Bloor West or 50 Burnhamthorpe often.. and 49 had better headway than 50 most of the time during the weekdays pre-pandemic. Morning Rush 49 Bloor West: Every 10 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 11-12 min Day-time 49 Bloor West: Every 15 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 20 min Afternoon-Rush 49 Bloor West: Every 12 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 15 min (It was 13 min before but was increased due to something called “reliability improvement” by the TTC) While 50 is now back to pre-pandemic. 49 is still well below the pre-pandemic level.. As it is every 30 min outside of rush hours (including day-time) Rush hour is now worse than Burnhamthorpe as it is running every 16-17 min Are there any routes which has still well below service level compared to pre-pandemic? The cynic in me has me thinking the TTC is slowly weaning service on the 49 and 50 for when it gets handed over to MiWay. Any word on when that pilot project is moving forward? Unless the TTC is going to be paying for some of the costs involved, MiWay isn't getting any net new service this year. Any new service would come at the expense of service cuts elsewhere in the system. None of the MiWay routes on either corridor are in line for additional service in the upcoming service change, which is generally how I'll gauge when the pilot project will be starting in lieu of an official announcement. There are a few routing changes MiWay will need to do to get sufficient coverage on both Bloor and Burnhamthorpe. There's also still the matter of amending the legislation at Queen's Park to allow the pilot projects with MiWay and YRT. So unless it gets buried with another bill (omnibus or otherwise), there's another indicator of when it will start. If they're going to be dragging their feet about it, then it would seem that they're waiting until September to restore the 49 and 50 to pre-pandemic service levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crix Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 Quick question about that miway takeover plan. What would happen to 49 bloor riders, would they be subject to walking to and from the kipling miway terminal or Auckland and dundas? Or would they reroute the 20 and 3 to islington like before and drop off people like how the ttc does it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptorjays Posted February 9, 2023 Report Share Posted February 9, 2023 48 minutes ago, Gil said: The cynic in me has me thinking the TTC is slowly weaning service on the 49 and 50 for when it gets handed over to MiWay. Any word on when that pilot project is moving forward? Unless the TTC is going to be paying for some of the costs involved, MiWay isn't getting any net new service this year. Any new service would come at the expense of service cuts elsewhere in the system. None of the MiWay routes on either corridor are in line for additional service in the upcoming service change, which is generally how I'll gauge when the pilot project will be starting in lieu of an official announcement. There are a few routing changes MiWay will need to do to get sufficient coverage on both Bloor and Burnhamthorpe. There's also still the matter of amending the legislation at Queen's Park to allow the pilot projects with MiWay and YRT. So unless it gets buried with another bill (omnibus or otherwise), there's another indicator of when it will start. If they're going to be dragging their feet about it, then it would seem that they're waiting until September to restore the 49 and 50 to pre-pandemic service levels. 50 is already at pre-pandemic. The headway for pm rush got a bit wider just before the pandemic so it is close to normal. 49 is the one which is way off the pre pandemic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3G Posted February 10, 2023 Report Share Posted February 10, 2023 Rick Leary is the gift that keeps on giving. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifty4ever Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 On 2/6/2023 at 5:33 PM, H4 5600 said: Thats 8963, its been doing training for MTD operators today, as 8956-8964 have recently been moved to MTD. Addendum: It seems 4 of the novas moved to MTD moved back to Arrow rather quickly? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ. Posted February 12, 2023 Report Share Posted February 12, 2023 8606 had a strange issue, it has electric doors and both of the doors weren't functioning on Friday. Driver was unable to leave at first. Apparently its happened to the bus at least 3 times now. I heard it was probably due to a fault in the electrics but im wondering if anyone else noticed something similar on the newer buses that have these types of doors? I never seen anything like it for the air powered doors on the 8400s and 8500s buses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted February 13, 2023 Report Share Posted February 13, 2023 “Fault in the electrics” doesn’t leave much to go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK78 Posted February 13, 2023 Report Share Posted February 13, 2023 Does anyone know what the radio callsigns 155 and 156 are? I've been hearing activity on Events Ch 7 today and they appear to be some kind of patrol unit, but they seem to be observing and tracking suspicious people rather to just responding to incidents like the regular Transit Enforcement 158 units on Transit Enforcement Ch1. Maybe they are plain clothes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Oke Posted February 13, 2023 Report Share Posted February 13, 2023 1 hour ago, MK78 said: Does anyone know what the radio callsigns 155 and 156 are? I've been hearing activity on Events Ch 7 today and they appear to be some kind of patrol unit, but they seem to be observing and tracking suspicious people rather to just responding to incidents like the regular Transit Enforcement 158 units on Transit Enforcement Ch1. Maybe they are plain clothes? Maybe something to do with the TPS Officers on the TTC now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK78 Posted February 14, 2023 Report Share Posted February 14, 2023 1 hour ago, John Oke said: Maybe something to do with the TPS Officers on the TTC now? I don't think so, they speak the TTC lingo. Its definitely some kind of patrol unit. Maybe what was added in the last budget. There seems to be several teams thruout the subway system. Oh I just heard it, they called it 156 Security Guards. So its not the same as Transit Enforcement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MK78 Posted February 14, 2023 Report Share Posted February 14, 2023 Just heard that 155 is the Community Outreach team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ. Posted February 15, 2023 Report Share Posted February 15, 2023 Revenue security now have 2020 FPIU as well. Same as transit supervisor and special constables, except they don't have a lightbar. Cars are labelled as "Revenue Security" and have the red transit supervisor paint-job. Many are at Birchmount divison right now if anyone wants to have a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bus_Medic Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 44 minutes ago, Money Mali said: Does Anyone Know If The Security Cameras Still Work In A Orion Bus If The Engine Is Not On Does a bear shit in the woods? Of course they do. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toro Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 Back in the day why did buses go to other divisions after retirement when that garage never operated buses of that kind? ie some 72xx rts at birchmount way after they all retired, some 92xx VIs at new eglinton way after they all retired, some 94xx Vs at birchmount way after they retired, a 15xx ng hybrid at new eglinton, etc. Also why didnt arrow and queensway decommision their own rts and d40lfs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3G Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 It comes down to who had space and personnel for storage and decommissioning, and who didn't. It's the same idea behind Arrow doing the PDI for the 3400s, or Eglinton doing same for the 9200s. Birchmount had surplus space so they were able to decommission the Vs for Malvern and Wilson. I have no recollection of any scrap RTSes being sent to Birchmount. However, a substantial amount were to be seen at Mount Dennis throughout 2015. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toro Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 14 hours ago, T3G said: Speaking of which, why were there og hybrids at birchmount in that photo? I heard that there was a rumour at the moment that they were retired (which obviously was not true) so what was the real reason? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T3G Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 For the same reason, overflow storage. A bunch were out for a while for various defects and until they could be attended to, they were stored at Birchmount. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJ. Posted February 17, 2023 Report Share Posted February 17, 2023 6 hours ago, T3G said: For the same reason, overflow storage. A bunch were out for a while for various defects and until they could be attended to, they were stored at Birchmount. Also novabus hybrids were there at one point when they were new after they were all taken off service. Decommissioned Wheel-Trans buses were also there from time to time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blue.bird.fan Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 I have seen photos on Facebook that 9401 is either on property or has been manufactured. When can we begin expecting the mass retirement of the remaining Orion VII OGs in earnest? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Young Posted February 19, 2023 Report Share Posted February 19, 2023 45 minutes ago, blue.bird.fan said: I have seen photos on Facebook that 9401 is either on property or has been manufactured. When can we begin expecting the mass retirement of the remaining Orion VII OGs in earnest? I think the picture you saw was the built bus at New Flyer factory but it is not on TTC property yet maybe not for 3-5 months is what I heard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raptorjays Posted February 20, 2023 Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/15/comparing-ttc-service-levels-2020-vs-2023/?fbclid=IwAR3Rrjy5-TfEqoGFaoBf9JuzE5x9OYqxLxS0WiVEacD8XQJf5vDiFPkOoMU Interesting blog post by Steve Munro comparing the service level of each routes between pre-pandemic era and now. This is showing how Line 2 is getting shittier service compared to pre-pandemic. Only 78% of service level (compared to the pre-pandemic) in the am rush.. 84% for pm rush and 76% in the early evening.. Line 1 is at least better than Line 2 with 104% during the mid-day (although the wait time seemed to get a bit longer for line 1 as well) On 2/8/2023 at 12:57 PM, raptorjays said: I know a lot of route’s schedule has been recovered close to pre-pandemic. I use either 49 Bloor West or 50 Burnhamthorpe often.. and 49 had better headway than 50 most of the time during the weekdays pre-pandemic. Morning Rush 49 Bloor West: Every 10 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 11-12 min Day-time 49 Bloor West: Every 15 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 20 min Afternoon-Rush 49 Bloor West: Every 12 min 50 Burnhamthorpe: Every 15 min (It was 13 min before but was increased due to something called “reliability improvement” by the TTC) While 50 is now back to pre-pandemic. 49 is still well below the pre-pandemic level.. As it is every 30 min outside of rush hours (including day-time) Rush hour is now worse than Burnhamthorpe as it is running every 16-17 min Are there any routes which has still well below service level compared to pre-pandemic? And on Munro's blog post.. 50 Burnhamthorpe is running very close to 100% of the pre-pandemic.. while 49 Bloor west is actually running 45% in the am rush compared to pre-pandemic and 63% during the pm rush.. A lot of routes are showing absurd level of service compared to pre-pandemic (Example: 26 Dupont, 19 Bay, 77 Swansea, etc.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xtrazsteve Posted February 20, 2023 Report Share Posted February 20, 2023 1 hour ago, raptorjays said: https://stevemunro.ca/2023/02/15/comparing-ttc-service-levels-2020-vs-2023/?fbclid=IwAR3Rrjy5-TfEqoGFaoBf9JuzE5x9OYqxLxS0WiVEacD8XQJf5vDiFPkOoMU Interesting blog post by Steve Munro comparing the service level of each routes between pre-pandemic era and now. This is showing how Line 2 is getting shittier service compared to pre-pandemic. Only 78% of service level (compared to the pre-pandemic) in the am rush.. 84% for pm rush and 76% in the early evening.. Line 1 is at least better than Line 2 with 104% during the mid-day (although the wait time seemed to get a bit longer for line 1 as well) And on Munro's blog post.. 50 Burnhamthorpe is running very close to 100% of the pre-pandemic.. while 49 Bloor west is actually running 45% in the am rush compared to pre-pandemic and 63% during the pm rush.. A lot of routes are showing absurd level of service compared to pre-pandemic (Example: 26 Dupont, 19 Bay, 77 Swansea, etc.) It’s gonna get worse not better. That’s the sad part Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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