APTA-2048
Senior Member
The WAVE automated shuttle is out of service after an accident today.
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Northern Light
Superstar
Turns out, this was a serious incident and the operator/attendant was rushed to a trauma facility with serious injuries. He is in critical condition.
Autonomous shuttle operator in critical condition after vehicle crashes in Whitby
The autonomous vehicle crashed into a tree in the Watson Street West and Victoria Street West area.
www.thestar.com
DirectionNorth
Active Member
Probably time to shut the shuttle down until we can work the errors out ...Turns out, this was a serious incident and the operator/attendant was rushed to a trauma facility with serious injuries. He is in critical condition.
Autonomous shuttle operator in critical condition after vehicle crashes in Whitby
The autonomous vehicle crashed into a tree in the Watson Street West and Victoria Street West area.
Any news on why it occured? I just saw that it crashed into a tree, which would be hilarious if it wasn't so serious. Darned paywall.
Richard White
Senior Member
At least it did not get stuck on a railway crossing while full of passengers?
DirectionNorth
Active Member
Which incident is this?
If you're responding to the comment that we should suspend the service, I want to see if it was human error or automation error that caused the crash.
The incidents per km of this AV shuttle seem to be higher than buses and trains in general, which move millions of people across the country, just fine. Edit: Might just be that the sample size of AVs isn't large enough, but it's hardly an auspicious start to the program.
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Coolstar
Senior Member
1975 GO Train and TTC bus crash left 8 dead
Stories about the good and the bad when commuting with GO Transit
Allandale25
Senior Member
Northern Light
Superstar
Update on the Autonomous bus crash:
From poster David H. over at cptdb.ca
A live link to the police statement is here:
From poster David H. over at cptdb.ca
A live link to the police statement is here:
ARG1
Senior Member
Durham-Scarborough BRT project materials
PICs 1 & 2 are complete. Click the buttons below to download session materials
www.metrolinxengage.com
EA is out for the DSBRT: Here are some highlights (Note that these are technically proof of concept, and don't represent what will actually be built)
Bus lanes temporarily end near UTSC before continuing again - requiring busses to quickly cross 2 lanes of traffic
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Bus platforms shorten to 20m for whatever reason between UTSC and Sheppard/Kingston
Lanes briefly end at the Toronto/Pickering border, where there is a curbside platform, and eastbound busses have to immediately swap to the median:
Westbound busses from this point continue in curbside for a few hundred meters, before rapidly shifting to the median:
Eastbound only bus lanes in downtown Whitby:
Random 33m platform:
Downtown Oshawa segment splits into 2 segments, King Street and Bond Street, curbside lanes that match in quality with RapidTO:
Eastbound lane ends crashing face first into a 20m long platform. This is how this BRT ends.
I really hope that they make a lot of improvements before construction starts, with weirdly inconsistent platform lengths, to bus lanes that just randomly change the side of the road they're on, there's a lot of seemingly shoddy design that should definitely be fixed.
Leo_Chan
Senior Member
I think they are saving this portion for when the UTSC secondary plan gets implemented further, the realignment of Military Trail, and whatever they are doing with the Eglinton East LRT.Bus lanes temporarily end near UTSC before continuing again - requiring busses to quickly cross 2 lanes of traffic
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Northern Light
Superstar
Service improvements in Durham Region this year:
The Taunton improvements actually start today, March 7.
The Taunton improvements actually start today, March 7.
APTA-2048
Senior Member
Public feedback on shelter design for Highway 2 BRT.
generalcanada
Senior Member
Finally some actual "shelters" for BRT not some half-assed canopy like the crosstown
APTA-2048
Senior Member
I am a bit confused, however, as to why the Durham shelters have walls on the ROW side while the Scarborough ones don’t. I’m guessing it has to do with the different models of buses the TTC operates, but that could be an issue in Durham too.
Northern Light
Superstar
That would seem to require very precise stopping by buses.
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I like the look of these overall, but the 2-wall system, with the full opening the way it is........makes me curious about the wind profile.
This is an E-W road, and prevailing winds in Toronto tend to be from the west......
Not my field of expertise. Just a curiosity.