[nfitz]

June 22nd, actually, is the first day that it could open. The TTC runs their simulated service for 2 board periods.

Damn shame that BlogTO doesn't verify what they read here before they announce it to the world!

If it was for May signups, then there'd be no guarantee that they'd change the plan 5 times before signups begin. How many weeks in advance do they do start signups? Presumably sometime in April.

 

[tor7719]

Some stations have the interior lights turned off. This could be a sign indicating everything is complete at select ones.

 

[11th]

Interesting no party attacked DoFo on the delays during the election...

No one really knows how or wants to deal with the hot potato. That's my guess.

 

[nfitz]

No one really knows how or wants to deal with the hot potato. That's my guess.

It certainly came up during the debate. Perhaps it's more that it's a relatively minor issue in the greater scheme of things. Or that three different Premiers (and four different mayors) have their fingers in this one.

 

[Abdullah77]

^ Who is Entro?

Entro is the wayfinding firm Crosslinx hired to do signage on the Crosstown. They made their own standards that are not in line with the standards Metrolinx later made in house. Finch West uses the Metrolinx standard, which is far better in my opinion. The Entro stuff on Crosstown is kinda crap.

 

[Sunnyside]

Interesting no party attacked DoFo on the delays during the election...

I got the impression during the candidate debate that no one actually wanted to let Ford talk about infrastructure very much…(minus attacking the 401 tunnel)

Crombie made the odd comment asking why PCs aren’t investing in transit/saying her govt will, but whenever Ford started to respond “…. We’re investing $70B in tra-“ he’d get cut off by one or all of the opponents. No one wanted to let Ford say “biggest transit expansion in history”.

Ford deliberately kept his rhetoric at a high level about the economy and tariffs, so he didn’t initiate transit talk- but transit and the crosstown would be the easiest thing to turn back on the Liberals if it came up.

 

[Mr.Tang]

I think it is just hard for the Liberals and especially the NDP to attack public transit investments in general. They also want to avoid implying criticism of non-partisan, public sector workers as collateral damage. Perhaps the NDP could have gone harder on this being a P3 -and that it would never have happened if we had just let the government do it and unions build it. Maybe they did, but with the orange man threatening tariffs every week (among other outrages) plus the Federal pollical situation ongoing - there was just not much air-time to really get your messages out.

 

[Steve X]

The problem with building transit is there’s no continuous projects. The expertise that TTC had with the Sheppard subway disappeared leading to the disaster for the TYSSE. Note that that was done, ML hired a new team for themself and shot themself in the foot for the crosstown. We need a government that will continue to build to keep the expertise around.

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Great to see snow clearing crews hard at work on Line 5 - even if it isn’t open.

 

[hw621]

Great to see snow clearing crews hard at work on Line 5 - even if it isn’t open.

if that's how they clean snow during revenue operation we are f'ed

 

[ZEBuilder]

if that's how they clean snow during revenue operation we are f'ed

Snow shouldn't be a major issue for it, the KW LRT hasn't had many issues during snow, freezing rain is the bigger issue. During snow you might get service reduced during major events but for anything less than 20cm it runs almost perfectly with the odd hiccup. The only time it was completely shut down was during the first bad snowstorm they had (33cm) but they were still figuring out snow clearing along the LRT route at that time. The storms KWs had this year didn't caused the system to shut down, service was reduced to every 20 minutes for a stretch of time (to allow plows on the tracks) but it wasn't ever an atrocious situation, platforms weren't even that horrific either.

 

[Kyle Campbell]

Snow shouldn't be a major issue for it, the KW LRT hasn't had many issues during snow, freezing rain is the bigger issue. During snow you might get service reduced during major events but for anything less than 20cm it runs almost perfectly with the odd hiccup. The only time it was completely shut down was during the first bad snowstorm they had (33cm) but they were still figuring out snow clearing along the LRT route at that time. The storms KWs had this year didn't caused the system to shut down, service was reduced to every 20 minutes for a stretch of time (to allow plows on the tracks) but it wasn't ever an atrocious situation, platforms weren't even that horrific either.

Same with the confed line. In the huge storm there were grumblings because service was slowed for a little while due to drifts being so large they had to bring out the track plow, but other than that it's fine. Freezing rain though....

 

[bono47]

so......have we confirmed that driver signup for the trial service is ongoing? if so when does that start? sounds like its the same for Finch? A 2 for 1 special on the start date would of course be putting lipstick on a pig, all the more reason for Metronlinx/TTC to do exactly that.

 

[smallspy]

so......have we confirmed that driver signup for the trial service is ongoing? if so when does that start? sounds like its the same for Finch? A 2 for 1 special on the start date would of course be putting lipstick on a pig, all the more reason for Metronlinx/TTC to do exactly that.

Yes, operator signup is occurring, and there have already been grumbling about how the schedules have been written up.

Finch West training starts at the end of March.

Dan

 

[6ixGod]

Damn shame that BlogTO doesn't verify what they read here before they announce it to the world

I think it should be common knowledge that BlogTO isn’t to be taken seriously. They exist solely to grab as much interest as possible for monetary gain. Ethnical journalism practices are not the number one concern.