Simply for the reason that all of the 905-agencies and GO Transit (edit: and OC Transpo) obviously seem to be planning on implementing this capability, why would the TTC opt out with the faregates?

Since I previously spoke, the TTC has indeed removed the Barcode stickers from the bus/streetcar units (so @EastYorkTTCFan was correct) and started to cover the scanners up, as is evidenced here. Regardless, the (edit: new) current top reader placement on the faregates is far better, in my...

Ah, thank you for sharing that. I hadn’t yet seen an official date, but makes sense they’d open it with the other branches. Ps. This will be my 100th post. Hopefully now I’ll lose my ”New Member” status after 15 years. Yay! 🥳

For the Montrealers, what exactly is going on with Griffintown-Bernard-Landry? The REM website is very vague. Agora Mtl has the best updates, but there’s only so much French I understand. I was disappointed to see that it won’t open with the initial Brossard-Gare Centrale section, and from...

While I mostly agree with your message, I believe if the TTC were truly serious about using these kinds of signals (as @W. K. Lis alludes to), they should take initiative by installing ”redundant” Transit signals (for streetcars) already at every signalized mixed-ROW intersection, and adapt...

Lol, the default Ottawa door announcements at ~3:10-15.

There appear to be two separate camps here... Apparently in France, for example, you’d have to turn on your left blinker when entering a roundabout, while for the same movement in Germany, you just signal with your right blinker on exit. A matter of preferences, I guess, although the German way...

I’d just like to ask then, why did the TTC spend money on new readers with barcode scanners for the bus and streetcar fleets, but not implement the same capability on their perfectly capable subway faregates while doing the upgrade?

For the first time last summer, after using multiple roundabouts around Ontario, I finally saw a driver signal on exit. I was shocked. This was on Maley Phase 1 in Sudbury. This has been a serious pet peeve of mine since Ontario started implementing roundabouts on a larger scale. We brought all...

^ What about barcode readers like Ottawa has on their gates (edit: and the new Famoco bus/streetcar units have)?

A friend of mine would say: if you're truly homeless, you don't even have the energy to speak (because of hunger), let alone act badly against someone. These are crimes of opportunity (usually funding an addiction).

I’m well aware of why they were closed. I just think with current technology, that risk can be well mitigated. I didn’t advocate for re-opening them, but rather converting them into blocked off but accessible emergency passages.

Personally, I was thinking of a situation where an assailant is blocking the current exits on your platform, at least you’d be able to access the other side. Right now you’d have to run into the tunnel.

These recent safety concerns got me thinking that maybe the TTC should de-wall the closed cross-passages at Queen’s Park and St. Patrick, and convert them into emergency use only - glass doors to mitigate security concerns (the reason they were closed off), and alarmed so that they are only used...

Let them hold on to that mainland European affiliation. If Anglophone Canadians can’t understand, that’s their problem. Quite frankly I’m surprised Quebec didn’t adopt the Vienna Convention on Road Signs like Saint Pierre and Miquelon, when it mattered. How many Canadians know this symbol ” ﬩ ”...

A lot of these stations with platforms on the same side of the intersection really should’ve gotten a Wilson station-style canopy treatment.

I sure hope there is a snowmelt system installed, hopefully there is and it’s just off? They definitely shouldn’t cheap out on that. Also, did anyone else notice the (in my opinion) dangerous placement of the Presto reader. I thought the point was to encourage people to stand well behind the...

I’d like to get your knowledge @reaperexpress toward a very specific question I’ve had - why do you think in and around the Helsinki (Finland) region, the long-distance trains operate with right-hand traffic, but the suburban trains operate with left-hand traffic. This is on a 2 fast-2 local...

Sorry to bring this back up, but I was having issues accessing UT at the time this was posted. Overall, I really like the clean design. I’m just surprised they didn’t opt for a half-half or two-thirds/one-third layout. There’s just so much wasted space for a screen that size/those dimensions...

I can definitely see people from North Bay wanting to do a day shopping trip in Toronto in the winter using it, what wouldn’t be possible with public transit, as well as people with cottages in and around Huntsville wanting to avoid the traffic on Highway 11 in the summer. My question was...