[Surrealplaces]

Question to those in the know. There was talk a couple ears back (maybe longer) of CT decreasing frequencies to some of the suburban bus services, and increasing frequency of ctrain service to as low as 3 minutes. From what I can tell trains still run at 5 minute intervals, according to the schedules, and from own experience it's usually around 5 min. Did they scrap the idea? or maybe it was never implemented?

 

[whatchyyc]

Question to those in the know. There was talk a couple ears back (maybe longer) of CT decreasing frequencies to some of the suburban bus services, and increasing frequency of ctrain service to as low as 3 minutes. From what I can tell trains still run at 5 minute intervals, according to the schedules, and from own experience it's usually around 5 min. Did they scrap the idea? or maybe it was never implemented?

Afaik the train will stay at 5 minutes peak because while 2-3 minutes is technically possible it leaves zero tolerance for delays. Right now the bus service reviews are focused on reallocating service hours from peak-only express and high school routes to an all-day two way network that can also serve those students

 

[Red Star]

Big delay on the Red and Blue line today. A car hit a C-train around 9th street. I think the West LRT was affected the most.

I wish the C-train was underground in downtown.

 

[therl15]

Big delay on the Red and Blue line today. A car hit a C-train around 9th street. I think the West LRT was affected the most.

I wish the C-train was underground in downtown.

TTC is no better, still remember I witnessed at least 10 times that Toronto subway just shutdown for random reasons and people can’t even line up, they just gathered around waiting for buses in snow or rain. Painful memories.

 

[trtcttc]

Big delay on the Red and Blue line today. A car hit a C-train around 9th street. I think the West LRT was affected the most.

I wish the C-train was underground in downtown.

Another tradeoff with underground stations is safety. Outside of rush hour, transit here is not used as widely as Toronto and Vancouver. At the end of the day, these people will go somewhere and places like the EV, convenience stores (like the Circle K where the new Fairmont is), etc. are getting redeveloped, so they'll eventually end up in transit. Even downtown Toronto at 10/11pm on a weekday is pretty sketchy, and it'd be worse here.

 

[trtcttc]

TTC is no better, still remember I witnessed at least 10 times that Toronto subway just shutdown for random reasons and people can’t even line up, they just gathered around waiting for buses in snow or rain. Painful memories.

visiting Toronto for work, and for all the former Torontonians…. Was going to get dinner at Yonge and Eg and take the new line 5 back to my hotel by the airport. Waited 25 mins to see 2 trains pass by for a “security incident” before I gave up and walked to Davisville to take another route. In total, wasted about 45 minutes.

Incidents happen sure, but the absolute insane frequency of disruptions is unbelievable. I’ve lived in Toronto where before taking an underground subway like Line 1, you have to check their TTC Notices account to see if there’s a replacement bus, random station closed, signal/power issue, security incident, etc. I guess nothing has changed.

On Line 5 stations, I hope our Green Line ones are better. Literally every wall is white. It’s like walking through the Severence office. I guess that was the aesthetics of 2015 when the stations were designed.

 

[Surrealplaces]

Funny, the very first page of this thread is an article about running 4 car trains.
I’ve been thinking they might have to revisit the idea. Often the red line cars are too full for people to get on.
The train in the photo pulled up packed and everyone on the platform was for the red line, as a blue line train had left just before this.

 

[Transit Apologist]

They've been running a mix of 3 and 4 car consists since sometime last year. However, the 4-car consists are essentially dispatched at random, so whether or not you see one in a given day mostly depends on luck. Currently CT doesn't run as many 4-cars as they used to because they've been prioritizing more frequent 3-car service due to a lack of rolling stock.

 

[trtcttc]

They've been running a mix of 3 and 4 car consists since sometime last year. However, the 4-car consists are essentially dispatched at random, so whether or not you see one in a given day mostly depends on luck. Currently CT doesn't run as many 4-cars as they used to because they've been prioritizing more frequent 3-car service due to a lack of rolling stock.

There's no published information on how many they have in service and how many new trains are expected? We made the capital investment to extend the stations, and then not having the trains to actually run it.

 

[Surrealplaces]

There's no published information on how many they have in service and how many new trains are expected? We made the capital investment to extend the stations, and then not having the trains to actually run it.

Wondering the same thing. I've heard that they run 4 car trains on weekends when there is less frequency, but they could really use them at peak times.

 

[CalgaryTiger]

Calgary Transit's mandate seems to be to get blood from a stone. Before it was not enough drivers, in the interim it was the Haysboro Garage, and now it is not enough rolling stock. I'd like to know what funding they would need to run transit how they want.

 

[trtcttc]

Calgary Transit's mandate seems to be to get blood from a stone. Before it was not enough drivers, in the interim it was the Haysboro Garage, and now it is not enough rolling stock. I'd like to know what funding they would need to run transit how they want.

Not sure if they do this now, but are there any spots near the downtown portion that they can park trains? So if they see wait times significantly higher on a particular route, they can send an extra train to boost capacity. Often times the difference between a crowded platform and good passenger flow is just 1 or 2 trains.

 

[darwink]

Not sure if they do this now, but are there any spots near the downtown portion that they can park trains? So if they see wait times significantly higher on a particular route, they can send an extra train to boost capacity. Often times the difference between a crowded platform and good passenger flow is just 1 or 2 trains.

If the demand is reliably on one route, you don't need to sit in a pocket track. Just need to time the surge of runs right.

Calgary Transit's mandate seems to be to get blood from a stone. Before it was not enough drivers, in the interim it was the Haysboro Garage, and now it is not enough rolling stock. I'd like to know what funding they would need to run transit how they want.

Well, the last year of Gondek iirc they started to undo the 2017, 2018 cuts to service hours, the non-implementation of BRT like service on the BRT infrastructure, the slow down of LRV replacement to match retirements.

Probably by the end of the decade things will be stabilized to then current service demands, if council continues to invest in service.

 

[trtcttc]

If the demand is reliably on one route, you don't need to sit in a pocket track. Just need to time the surge of runs right.

The direction and route has to be very consistent though. And if they mis-time it by a few minutes it's running half empty all the way to the suburbs. Often times these rush hour traffic, 10-15 minutes the platform crowding can be quite different.