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  1. mind_the_gap

    Toronto Toronto | TYSSE: Pioneer Village Station | 11.89m | 1s | TTC | aLL Design

    Here’s hoping that they don’t go after Kennedy next, considering the popularity RFK Jr. has gained in the States, and the TTC would have to change its’ rollsigns. Maybe at this point they should just install LCD-screens for station signage. It would at least be cheaper in the long run, than...
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    Toronto Toronto | TYSSE: Pioneer Village Station | 11.89m | 1s | TTC | aLL Design

    I’m honestly getting tired of this ”1984”-style renaming of everything. It started with the renaming of LeBreton (Flats) station in Ottawa to Pimisi (dishonouring the history of the fire that destroyed the community), then Dominion to Kichi Sibi. Then on the GO network, Lincolnville got renamed...
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    Toronto Toronto | TYSSE: Pioneer Village Station | 11.89m | 1s | TTC | aLL Design

    Oh, the irony in the fact that the station rendering at the top of this page says ”Steeles West”… Who was the councillor that demanded the renaming to Pioneer Village in the first place? Maybe they should pay for all the associated signage changes.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    I’ll just add, hopefully they hire her again to continue this motif with the Ontario Line station there.
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    Toronto Toronto | Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

    Regardless of what Science Centre station will be renamed to, ”Total Lunar Eclipse” by Sarah Morris will (thankfully) always reflect its’ original location. I absolutely love the ”molecular” nature… Source The Ontario Science Centre will always live on through her pieces.
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    Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)

    Just a thought… one day we might want to achieve a unified exterior livery for all the various operators in the GTA(H). This is what I hope would be an outcome of the Metrolinx ”T” branding. Buses should have a unified exterior livery, but then the individual TA could customize the interior...
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    TTC: Other Items (catch all)

    Apologies, I took Line 2 between Warden and VP yesterday after a long time, and to my utter horror, I saw how the TTC had installed track lighting on that open ”railroad” stretch. The job they did looks utterly atrocious. They just cut the (edit: 55) year-old fence in sections to make room for...
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    TTC: Other Items (catch all)

    I’m not trying to derail this discussion, but I can’t think of anywhere more appropriate to post this. I’m seriously wondering what the TTC intends to do with the ”Lite-Brite” maps on the TRs in the long-term. They can get away with it for now with Lines 5/6 (maybe even program the...
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    Ottawa Transit Developments

    At least the new Stadler Flirts for Ottawa seemingly took a lot of knowledge gained from Helsinki’s (and now VR’s) order: Source Also, there’s this article from Railway Gazette from 2008 (sorry for the paywall): Winterised wider Flirt
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    I must say @grammin, that: ”I’m sorry”. I really am! I had a bad day and I took it out on you very unnecessarily. I really do appreciate your videos. I won’t mention any names, but some bad apples have ruined things for me by bombing threads with totally unrelated posts. Still, I refuse to...
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    I appreciate some of your videos, although I skip through your commentary and keep you on mute. But please don't try to derail a thread, to try to gain popularity/monetization for your own YouTube channel. If I want to see it, I'll go there... I was trying to have a serious discussion about...
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    This is fantasy, but I don’t even see the need for a separate Line 4 station at Sheppard West (Downsview). They could connect the Line 4 tracks to the Line 1 tracks heading NW, and turn Downsview Park (GO) into the transfer station for southbound Line 1 passengers, and then Line 4 trains could...
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    Sheppard Line 4 Subway Extension (Proposed)

    As someone who spent half my life in an apartment on the SW corner of Bathurst/Finch growing up there, and relying daily on either the 36 or the 7/160 (yes, I loved the Utah buses we leased!). I am really peeved about the general push on this forum to extend the Finch West LRT any further east...
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    Roads: Ontario/GTA Highways Discussion

    Just to carry on with what @Coruscanti Cognoscente was talking about in the Ontario Line thread. Here’s a picture of a Fishbowl with blue Ontario plates: Source I really do appreciate Ford trying to bring back the (historic) blue plates, but I don’t appreciate him giving up on them. If my...
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    YRT/Viva Construction Thread (Rapidways, Terminals)

    Regarding the YRT Final Copy 2023 Transit Initiatives, on pages 25-26 (28-29 in reader). I’m rather disappointed by their decision to extend the 24 to Gormley GO (peak-only), instead of the 90 like they were originally planning on. It would’ve made for a much more direct route from Don Mills...
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    Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

    My trust only goes so far when we’re also heading towards a digital dollar. Paired with a Chinese-style social credit score system, 15-minute cities can become prisons for those who don’t comply. Here’s Plannedopolis, for those who aren’t aware: This isn’t the hell I want to live in. (And...
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    Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

    My uncle who worked in the Soviet Union would tell me, the guards told you: ”This is where you eat and sleep, and this is where you work. This is the pathway leading between the two. You’re not allowed to leave it.” That’s all I’ll say without getting political - this is a...
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    Road Safety & Vision Zero Plan

    ^ Be careful what you wish for…
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    Montréal Transit Developments

    With Gare Centrale as the current terminus, and GBL being so close, I wouldn’t expect much delays (that they haven’t already planned for). Trains would already be travelling slower approaching the interlocking there. (Edit: unless they plan on using part of the tunnel to turn the trains around...
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    Metrolinx: Presto Fare Card

    ^ Guess it’s better to pay the people installing the new equipment twice, instead of having some foresight when every agency around you including Ottawa is doing it for Presto.

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