McGillicuddy
Active Member
And that's why we shoulda listened to Giorgio Mammoliti and built Eglinton as a maglev.
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yrt+viva=1system
Senior Member
Eglinton Crosstown won’t get full signal priority before May, TTC Chair says
https://www.cp24.com/local/toronto/...ll-signal-priority-before-may-ttc-chair-says/What is this pilot project that is happening on the 510 Spadina? Has anyone been on the line recently and notice any changes?
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
Takes awhile to update the magnetic tape on their IBM 360 mainframe computer using punched cards.
Voltz
Senior Member
They need to give an idea of what this priority will look like and how it will operate.
urbanclient
Active Member
Yes ok you are right. In that case all cars have zero ground clearance. I think they mean the distance between the vehicle body and the ground/trackbed.
Track brakes, let alone magnetic track brakes are still comparatively rare, although I have an inkling that adoption is growing for their added emergency braking capability. The only place they don't seem exceptionally rare for passenger rail is Europe currently.
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
"In a memo from Lali, sent out to the TTC board and viewed by the Star, the CEO promises to provide an update at the Feb. 3 board meeting on the agency’s progress toward opening the Crosstown"
81-717
Active Member
Obviously the wheels have to contact the surface they roll on, that goes without saying for rail and road vehicles alike. Ground clearance in this case refers to every part of the vehicle except the wheels (which, in the case of rail vehicles, include the flanges, which are the ONLY part allowed to have negative ground clearance, i.e. they stick out slightly below the point of contact of the wheels/rails).
Yes, I've noticed (i.e. the ICE trains in Germany).
Thaboss
Active Member
Wow they are really leaving things down to the last second.
The pessimist in me says, why wait that long if you already know it'll be open on the 8th...
Obsidian
Active Member
If only someone had given them enough time over the last 15 years.
ssiguy2
Senior Member
Notice how the release said "some" signal priority and not total. That is about as vague and non-comital as one can get.
Also, what is all this nonsense about emergency braking. Emergency breaking should only come online if the vehicle is just a couple meters from hitting someone/thing just like a car system does. Dear God, these vehicles run in their own ROW and if the emergency breaking is being employed every time the streetcar could hit a snowflake, then they should just ditch the drivers and run it automated. If the drivers have been given such shockingly little control over the vehicles, you have to wonder what they are even there for.
Also, what is all this nonsense about emergency braking. Emergency breaking should only come online if the vehicle is just a couple meters from hitting someone/thing just like a car system does. Dear God, these vehicles run in their own ROW and if the emergency breaking is being employed every time the streetcar could hit a snowflake, then they should just ditch the drivers and run it automated. If the drivers have been given such shockingly little control over the vehicles, you have to wonder what they are even there for.
urbanclient
Active Member
Something something won't anyone think of the unionized jobs, something something driverless metros would've been 'too much' capacity...
Slowing down those poor, poor left turning drivers... Toronto could never...
T3G
Senior Member
Can you explain, in excruciating and thorough technical detail please, how you reached this conclusion from a problem that was described as "automatic emergency brakes appeared to activate for no reason" and "what appeared to be random emergency braking"? This sounds like some kind of error or bug in the software. No part of the given quotes seems to suggest that it is desirable or even planned for the emergency braking to be activated every time the streetcar could hit a snowflake.
Coolibop
Active Member
Baffling... I never saw Don Wright or Nick Simone report to the press for Metrolinx.. It's always been Phil Verster or Mike Lindsay...
For any company for that matter... Why is the TTC CEO excused from accountability and the board takes this on?
littlewill1166
Active Member
All the TTC chairs are politicians, all the Metrolinx chairs are seat warmers.
Amare
Senior Member
To be fair, I last saw Mandeep take questions about 3 weeks ago from the press, and they were pressing him HARD on the joke that is the Finch West line.
Not to excuse him not appearing in today's press conference, but he's been in the media and making statements a lot more during his 6 months tenure than the clown Rick Leary did during his entire tenure.
Not to excuse him not appearing in today's press conference, but he's been in the media and making statements a lot more during his 6 months tenure than the clown Rick Leary did during his entire tenure.