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LOL.. i've been here a while, on SSP longer, and it is essentially impossible to be an employee at the TTC not knowing... mike...
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On Saturday, the service is reasonably well behaved until early afternoon, but at that point, bunching sets in. As on weekdays, there appears to be no effort to space out the service and pairs of cars travel across the city together. This is difficult to justify especially considering the long layovers most cars get at Humber and Long Branch.
One particular event is worth looking at. A gap opens up inbound from Humber at about 11:30 am. An inbound car from Long Branch (green line) sits for quite a while at Humber, along with two outbound Humber cars (blue and brown) while one outbound car (orange) runs through to Long Branch. Those three outbound cars arrived in a pack westbound following what appears to be a dawdler (brown) all the way from Neville. The inbound Long Branch car (green) that clearly should go east ahead of this pack waits at Humber and follows the slow car (brown) who is short turned eastbound at Woodbine Loop.
At no time is there any indication of line management, and this parade of cars sticks together causing a 30 minute gap to Neville. What is worse, they continue westbound and are joined by a short turn coming out of Woodbine (grey) after a respectable layover right in front of the pack rather than into the gap it should have filled westbound.
East of Roncesvalles, the average is back down to 6 minutes with a swing of roughly 4 minutes either way (2 to 10 minutes). Again, there does not seem to be any attempt to manage service eastbound from Ronces even though the cars are sitting on their own right-of-way at the eastbound stop and could wait for an appropriate time to leave.
As the cars make their way across the city eastbound, the gaps open up and by the time we reach Broadview, gaps of 12 minutes are common.
Later in the month, there is a build-up of pre-Christmas shopping traffic, but these two day show how even with no untoward weather, serious congestion or delays, transit service can be a shambles.
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