nfitz Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 5 minutes ago, Tunnelrat said: What's the best app for Android to see buses on a map in real time? The ones I have downloaded only show bus stops with arrival times not the actual buses. It's not fancy, but on Android, if I really want to see where they heck things are, I use the https://totransit.ca/ website - as it only maps what's reporting on a certain route, with no concern about what they are doing. Hint ... if 506s are missing, it's not impossible to find them signed in as 306s in broad daylight. Normally I just leave all the 500 streetcar routes and 304, 306, 301,310 on at all times ... occasionally I see some odd situation when a 501 is up at Main Station, giving me a quick trip to Queen and Parliament! 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Tunnelrat Posted February 14 Report Share Posted February 14 15 minutes ago, nfitz said: It's not fancy, but on Android, if I really want to see where they heck things are, I use the https://totransit.ca/ website - as it only maps what's reporting on a certain route, with no concern about what they are doing. Hint ... if 506s are missing, it's n impossible to find them signed in as 306s in broad daylight. Normally I just leave all the 500 streetcar routes and 304, 306, 301,310 on at all times ... occasionally I see some odd situation when a 501 is up at Main Station, giving me a quick trip to Queen and Parliament! Thanks that's exactly what I was looking for. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Andythagiant Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 On 2/6/2021 at 5:43 PM, AnalogPentium said: Finally spotted one of the new supervisor cars today and to be honest Special Constables also got new PIUs. Same livery but has grey accents instead of red. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
Shaun Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 I wanted to ask if replacing the batteries on the hybrids with Lythium accomplish resolving the problems that the TTC was experiencing with them? Were the issues with the electronics fixed during the rebuild process? I guess that with newer Hybrids being so reliable and efficient it doesn't make sense to keep the NG's running. Link to post Share on other sites
TTC Guy Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 Does anyone know where I can find information about what routes have what runs at certain times. Link to post Share on other sites
Someguy3071 Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 2 hours ago, TTC Guy said: Does anyone know where I can find information about what routes have what runs at certain times. I know but I'm not going to reveal that info. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TTC103 Posted February 16 Report Share Posted February 16 15 hours ago, TTC Guy said: Does anyone know where I can find information about what routes have what runs at certain times. Info is available here. May be difficult to parse, though, as this is raw data meant to feed into next vehicle prediction programs. https://ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/fa_IR/dataset/ttc-routes-and-schedules/resource/c1264e07-3c27-490f-9362-42c1c8f03708 1 Link to post Share on other sites
TTC Guy Posted February 17 Report Share Posted February 17 8 hours ago, TTC103 said: Info is available here. May be difficult to parse, though, as this is raw data meant to feed into next vehicle prediction programs. https://ckan0.cf.opendata.inter.prod-toronto.ca/fa_IR/dataset/ttc-routes-and-schedules/resource/c1264e07-3c27-490f-9362-42c1c8f03708 Thanks Link to post Share on other sites
Ultimate Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 On 2/15/2021 at 7:40 PM, Andythagiant said: Special Constables also got new PIUs. Same livery but has grey accents instead of red. 3 Link to post Share on other sites
AnalogPentium Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 9 minutes ago, Ultimate said: Not gonna lie, the red one is much nicer Link to post Share on other sites
bus_7246 Posted February 25 Report Share Posted February 25 This is wracking my brain right now! There is a handful of pics on the inter web of the TTC New Flyer ‘TUF’ demonstrator (early version of the D40LF), but I can’t seem to find them. Does anyone know where I can find these hard to find gems? Link to post Share on other sites
PCC Guy Posted 14 hours ago Report Share Posted 14 hours ago Speaking of documents that are hard to find, I seem to recall that there was a report/article/anecdote/something posted that said that the Nova hybrids were failing to meet reliability expectations. Does anyone know if this was actually a thing that was posted on here and where I might find it, if true? The usual search hasn't turned up anything but I might not be searching in the right threads or with the right keywords EDIT: I might've dreamt the whole thing. I've been browsing through the CEO's reports from December 2019 and onward and there seems to be nothing in there particularly damning about the Novas. The December 2019 report indicates they are performing above reliability targets and in January this year the MDBF for the hybrid fleet was 30k km while for diesel buses it was 20k. The reports from the past year repeatedly state "Nova LFS Hybrid buses equipped with the BAE Hybrid drive system are performing well above the expected reliability with respect to the hybrid powertrain system." That's good to see, I find these to be handsome machines and I am glad to see them doing well. 1 Link to post Share on other sites
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