Miscellaneous TTC Discussion & Questions

[Someguy3071]

45 minutes ago, Doppelkupplung said:

Cue the facepalms 

https://youtu.be/ldU6WJbFqNc

There’s more than one FYI 

I would push him out the door at the first stop. And that voice couldn't be more annoying. Lol

[Transit geek]

1 minute ago, Someguy3071 said:

I would push him out the door at the first stop. And that voice couldn't be more annoying. Lol

At least not as annoying as hearing the TR PA system repeat "please stand clear of the doors" through the entire train every time any set of doors are obstructed. If only the PA system could simply broadcast "please do not hold or block the doors" in the affected carriage that would be easier on our ears.

[Someguy3071]

I disagree. Was that you talking in that video? Lol

[Doggosareamazing]

1 hour ago, Doppelkupplung said:

Couldn’t continue after 10 seconds of it. 

YouTube rewind 2018 in a nutshell.

[Orion V]

Is it me or lately TTC rarely put artics on 36 for the Finch to Finch West branch? They use to be very common at Finch Stn and now not so much. I even see some on 60 at Finch Stn now when that route isn't suppose to use any artics.

[Kelvin3157]

11 minutes ago, Orion V said:

Is it me or lately TTC rarely put artics on 36 for the Finch to Finch West branch? They use to be very common at Finch Stn and now not so much. I even see some on 60 at Finch Stn now when that route isn't suppose to use any artics.

I went by today, and there was pretty low ridership on the local 36. Nowadays you see 939B loosening up the tension

Also, who said that 60 is not allowed to use artics?

[Eren Jaeger]

31 minutes ago, Kelvin3157 said:

I went by today, and there was pretty low ridership on the local 36. Nowadays you see 939B loosening up the tension

...and no express service between Finch West and Alness via Finch Avenue West itself since the 939B uses the busway. There's should be stops between Wilmington (104) and Senlac (98) if they not willingly to launch the 906 FINCH WEST EXPRESS running from Finch Stn. to Humberwood in parallel to the 939B.

[Someguy3071]

6 hours ago, BYD said:

...and no express service between Finch West and Alness via Finch Avenue West itself since the 939B uses the busway. There's should be stops between Wilmington (104) and Senlac (98) if they not willingly to launch the 906 FINCH WEST EXPRESS running from Finch Stn. to Humberwood in parallel to the 939B.

Adding those stops would defeat the whole point of having an express bus.

[Orion V]

8 hours ago, Kelvin3157 said:

I went by today, and there was pretty low ridership on the local 36. Nowadays you see 939B loosening up the tension

Also, who said that 60 is not allowed to use artics?

Oh I see.
So it was the introduction / extension of the 199B / 939B that took artics off that branch.

I thought the official artic routes are 7, 29, 41, 36, 953 and 985.

[Ed T.]

23 hours ago, Someguy3071 said:

Artic drive a little different then 40ft buses. Not as bouncy because the joint smooths it out a bit and the engine is like a counterbalance all the way in the back. 

What I often saw at Keele station, when an artic on 41 came around to the loading platform, the C axle would be the only one to bang off the curb corner at the east end of the platform.

[Someguy3071]

20 minutes ago, Ed T. said:

What I often saw at Keele station, when an artic on 41 came around to the loading platform, the C axle would be the only one to bang off the curb corner at the east end of the platform.

The back wheels they track in a little bit so when you turn you have to go slightly wider than in the 40 footer.

[wil9402]

10 hours ago, Orion V said:

Is it me or lately TTC rarely put artics on 36 for the Finch to Finch West branch? They use to be very common at Finch Stn and now not so much. I even see some on 60 at Finch Stn now when that route isn't suppose to use any artics.

Ever since the subway extension opened only the 36A Finch West-Humberwood branch is scheduled to use artics. The other branches (36D/F, 36B Finch West-Finch) are scheduled to use 40 footers. Sometimes they throw artics on those branches though and vis versa.

[Wayside Observer]

13 hours ago, Bus_Medic said:

Where’s that YouTube vid of the kid on an H4 that ruins it for everyone....

You should have been on that PCC on September 23rd.  That specifically was the breaking point for me for putting up with former garbage.

A friend of mine who works for another transit agency and I went to ride it and it was ok when it first went into service because 10:00 AM is too early for them to be out of bed and downtown for but it steadily turned into circus as they accumulated on the car. My friend was talking with one of the TTC employees about Andy Byford's tenure with one of the TTC employees on the car and some dork overheard part of the conversation then started shouting over top of them that Byford doesn't work at the TTC anymore.

When the PCC was laying over at Wolesley Loop in between trips, people were taking each others picture with the car.  Something perfectly fine to do with the vintage streetcar that's out for the 80th anniversary of PCC service, right?  Wrong!  Some ancient geezer who was wearing a winter coat and hat - and I took pictures of that - despite being the 23rd of September being one of the last hot summer days of the year started yelling and snarling at people to get out of his photo. This was an open to the public event being run free of charge. The TTC wasn't collecting fares to ride the streetcar and it certainly wasn't a private charter that people were paying an admission fee for so if people want to take pictures of their kids with the streetcar, let them!  This geezer who's probably old enough to remember when the Toronto Railway Company ditched the horses and anticipated Bob Dylan by going electric needs to give it a rest.

At one point, speaking of layovers at the loop, this one kid who was imitating air horn sounds walked up to me and unsolicited started telling me how to use a Presto card.  Hint:  I work in Toronto.  I moved out into the 905 area code when houses were still kind of, sort of somewhat affordable out there.  I take the Go train. Guess what?  I know how to use a Presto card thank you very much. I also know how to run the transit usage reports and claim it on my income tax up until that credit was cancelled. Interestingly, he didn't mention to make sure to claim all the eligible usage for the tax credit for usage before July 1, 2017 but I don't think he earns enough money to pay tax assuming he holds some kind of employment.

At one point a bunch of kids were trying to change the side rollsign on the car. This was turning into an exercise in futility for them because 4500 and 4549 have the type of side boxes that have the pull-to-release handles that won't turn otherwise.  They didn't know to pull the tip of the handle and instead of leaving it alone or asking when it didn't work as they expected, they just twisted it more and started putting serious torque on the handle. If it doesn't work, crank harder, right?!? I put a stop to that because I didn't want them to damage it but I was so tempted to open my mouth with a wiseass remark asking how they can have any credibility as formers when they don't even know how to crank a rollsign but I kept polite about it.

I'm not going to start up about the worse than incompetent level of understanding that foamers have for electronics because I could spend all day on that one except to say that a lot of the garbage that gets blathered all over the place by the Toronto crowd is flat out wrong, and the refusal to learn even the basics when it's explained to be able to have an informed conversation is very disappointing.  The only thing that the way some of this bullshit has gone viral has accomplished is making the Toronto crowd look like a bunch of fools and lead to jokes about diode protection diodes among other things elsewhere at the expense of everyone in Toronto, and I've had to make sure I don't get painted with that brush because I do electronics professionally and I do not want to wear the Toronto reputation for that.

So foamers, you have been warned:  I have not signed the Geneva Conventions.  That means I don't have to be nice.

[Someguy3071]

2 hours ago, Orion V said:

Oh I see.
So it was the introduction / extension of the 199B / 939B that took artics off that branch.

I thought the official artic routes are 7, 29, 41, 36, 953 and 985.

134 is mostly artics too. 

[Xtrazsteve]

11 hours ago, Orion V said:

Is it me or lately TTC rarely put artics on 36 for the Finch to Finch West branch? They use to be very common at Finch Stn and now not so much. I even see some on 60 at Finch Stn now when that route isn't suppose to use any artics.

The 36B is not scheduled artics. It seems like the service planning department estimated how much ridership this branch would get after the TYSSE opening and scheduled it for 40 ft buses. 

The 60 and 134 are dispatched artics from division level. The 134 only has one run that's scheduled aritcs.

2 hours ago, Orion V said:

Oh I see.
So it was the introduction / extension of the 199B / 939B that took artics off that branch.

I thought the official artic routes are 7, 29, 41, 36, 953 and 985.

29 and 929 both are officially scheduled artics. The 941 has 3 runs out of 7 officially scheduled in the morning as they become 41's after the morning peak hours. They are usually dispatched correctly thus 941 is a semi artic run in the morning.

The 199/939 never gotten more than 3 or 4 runs at the start. I see it more as a trial on how they'll perform on that route.

[7749]

10 hours ago, Wayside Observer said:

 

At one point, speaking of layovers at the loop, this one kid who was imitating air horn sounds walked up to me and unsolicited started telling me how to use a Presto card.

That'd be Alex Rampaul, the guy who ruined the H4 run. He was spamming the SR on the PCC that day too as well.

[Someguy3071]

1 hour ago, Rami A. said:

That'd be Alex Rampaul, the guy who ruined the H4 run. He was spamming the SR on the PCC that day too as well.

He seems like one of these annoying know it alls

It looks like he not only spams TTC but other local transit agencies too.

[7575]

1 minute ago, Someguy3071 said:

He seems like one of these annoying know it alls

It looks like he not only spams TTC but other local transit agencies too.

Go to a YouTube channel called "Esteban F." and you'll see an Alex Rampaul parody.

[H4 5600]

I looked up his account, this was the first thing that i saw...

[Someguy3071]

And of course he has tons of twitter accounts to spam his bullshit. 

[Orion V]

13 hours ago, Xtrazsteve said:

The 36B is not scheduled artics. It seems like the service planning department estimated how much ridership this branch would get after the TYSSE opening and scheduled it for 40 ft buses. 

The 60 and 134 are dispatched artics from division level. The 134 only has one run that's scheduled aritcs.

29 and 929 both are officially scheduled artics. The 941 has 3 runs out of 7 officially scheduled in the morning as they become 41's after the morning peak hours. They are usually dispatched correctly thus 941 is a semi artic run in the morning.

The 199/939 never gotten more than 3 or 4 runs at the start. I see it more as a trial on how they'll perform on that route.

Oh yes I had forgotten about 929 and 941 as those are new express routes from their artic localized routes.

It seems there's not enough artics to go around now compared to a few years ago when the artic branches / routes had a regular occurrence of artics on weekdays.

[bus_7246]

Not enough artics were ordered in the first place. The route restrictions on the artic fleet did more damage than any good because they would have been of better use on routes they were previously run on prior to their early demise. But then again, the ergonomics and a whole bunch of different factors have changed over the years that are above my pay grade to understand 

[Xtrazsteve]

3 hours ago, bus_7246 said:

Not enough artics were ordered in the first place. The route restrictions on the artic fleet did more damage than any good because they would have been of better use on routes they were previously run on prior to their early demise. But then again, the ergonomics and a whole bunch of different factors have changed over the years that are above my pay grade to understand 

The use of Artics is really questionable. The soon to be 953 is getting more runs again in PM. It's pretty much at the point that it is a 1:1 replacement for 40 ft Orion V's to LFS artics with the new changes compared to 2014 BUT so much running time will be added to the route in January, the local 53B is actually faster than the 953B on schedule LOL. A truly WTF plan. Just remove the artics from the route, please! 

The only time the 953 would be faster is when their is congestion that causes the local route to bunch up.

[TTC 7300 series]

On 12/22/2018 at 9:08 AM, Ed T. said:

What I often saw at Keele station, when an artic on 41 came around to the loading platform, the C axle would be the only one to bang off the curb corner at the east end of the platform.

If they swing just wide enough they can just miss it it depends on if and where other buses are parked that they hit the curb

[Downsview 108]

 

On 12/22/2018 at 10:53 AM, Wayside Observer said:

 This geezer who's probably old enough to remember when the Toronto Railway Company ditched the horses and anticipated Bob Dylan by going electric needs to give it a rest.

 

 

LOL

On 12/22/2018 at 11:23 PM, H4 5600 said:

I looked up his account, this was the first thing that i saw...

Man if that clown got in my way using cash I'd use him as my own personal switch iron.