Sorry for belated post but see comments from Josh Colle: there will be full celebration when "full opening" actually happens. Also mini events happening over the course of next week. https://urbantoronto.ca/forum/threads/toronto-eglinton-line-5-m-s-metrolinx-arcadis.11782/post-2346799

Matlow: Can you explain why the LRT is not opening with full aggressive transit signal priority on the surface? And can you confirm that it will be fully aggressive transit signal priority? Lali: We will have a fully operational, functioning phase rotation TSP system before the end of Q2...

Saxe: I want to go back to the automatic braking. I mean having ridden the TTC for many decades, I think only once in my entire life, have I been in a vehicle that lurched to an immediate, sudden stop, where people would fall. That sounds like a feature we're going to have much more often on...

Bravo: What speed are trains currently operating at, and are we facing any equipment or maintenance challenges on the line that could be impacting sort of the speed and therefore serving people at lower speeds? Lali: So equipment issues, nothing that really is impactful that that we have seen...

Vice Chair Mihevc: It'll be a full run of trains. Is that correct? Lali: There'll be 24 trains, and we'll ramp up. It will ramp up later in the next year as well. TTC staff: The service level six, which is from in the project agreement, was for 28 peak trains in the AM. As the CEO just...

Commissioner Matlow: Today you've officially announced that February 8 is the opening date for the Eglinton LRT yet, work has been underway for a considerable period of time to organize the announcement event on Friday and then the opening date on February 8. And then recently, it was reported...

Bravo: How does the phased opening interplay with existing bus service on Eglinton? Will there be any plans to have or have there been consideration of having a sort of redundant or extra bus service? Particularly, I'm worried about the commute on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday next week...

Transcribing Lali's presentation: Lali: So what does, what does phased opening mean? How will that differ from what we did on line six? Well, this allows us to monitor performance, validate it collectively, and also allows upgrades that we know are coming to be phased in in a controlled manner...

What are you hearing?

Per The Star story from yesterday on the emergency braking issue, TTC will give an update at the board meeting on Tuesday. Link no paywall: https://archive.is/Mtt1D

I respectfully disagree that there is little new here for UTers. Even if UTers "know" aspects of this story, the article provides a lot of valuable testimony and evidence for those claims. A really solid reporting job by Andy Takagi, IMO. Some other findings worth highlighting: The TTC didn't...

On the DVP bridge shift: a worker at the site told me it will take 55 hours in total to move the bridge, starting probably after midnight tonight. The exact start time will depend on when the DVP is fully closed.

Lol here's why: "this person" is a director at Metrolinx. It's PR... Puts his pessimism about the ability of Metrolinx to assess what went wrong with this project and retain talent in perspective!

What do you think has improved under Lali? Genuinely asking.

Feb 3rd. https://www.ttc.ca/Public-meetings/Board