[DSC]

The City has started removing the old, duplicate, poles and the utility contractors seem to have pulled all the new cables so they have started putting on the permanent "lids" on the utility pits that, up to now, have had temporary metal plate covers. Yesterday there were lots of utility folk working between Yonge and University. Almost done and we may see TTC streetcar service soon.

 

[Steve Munro]

The TTC has just announced that Queen cars will begin operating via the Richmond/Adelaide diversion on Sunday, November 10.

501 | 301 Routing change

www.ttc.ca

 

[ward10]

Rode the 501 eastbound on opening day today. Here's a video of the 12min journey at 4x speed

 

[Jonny5]

My experience this morning travelling westbound:

The driver announced before arriving at Yonge "The next stop is University Avenue. There are no more stops from here until University Avenue."
The streetcar got to York and Queen and surprise, there was one of those large and obviously ad-hoc paper TTC stop signs attached to a utility pole, and the driver did open the doors and let us out there.

All that being said, the operator absolutely floored it down Richmond west from Yonge to York. It was faster than any 501 I've been on for months, though I'm sure part of that is it being a Monday and a quasi-holiday, so traffic was light, but the trip was really fast, faster than any 501 bus that made the extra stops at Bay and Victoria.

 

[Jonny5]

Operator last night stopped and opened the doors going eastbound on Adelaide at Church.
There is no stop signage there on the polls, temporary or otherwise.
Looks like the operators are making up the extra stops on the fly due to demand from riders.

 

[reinventingthewheel]

I too had an interesting observation at Adelaide and Church… no thoughts or feelings, just an observation.

On Adelaide, the left turn signal is distinct to eliminate conflicts with cyclists and pedestrians. However, the transit signal is concurrent with cycling and pedestrian crossing, which leads to occasional delays. The transit signal cannot be aligned with the left turn signal for autos since they must turn into the same lane.