[ZEBuilder]

iON has high speed curves? I can't think of many curves that iON has (even relatively gentle ones) where the train doesn't slow to like 20km/h.

The only real place along the ION line where it takes a curve at speed is along the previous freight right of way between Uptown and Northfield. Even then it's such a gradual curve that it's barely noticeable.

The curves aren't even the biggest issue with the ION its the lack of TSP. It does have some priority but when you take it ever day you notice cars are still king everywhere along the line. There's also some really weird signal blocking which forces trains to slow way before it makes sense, if they don't slow the ATP system kicks in and the train emergency brakes, it doesn't happen often but when it does you go flying, however it happens enough that some people noticeably brace themselves expecting it to happen.

 

[T3G]

iON has high speed curves? I can't think of many curves that iON has (even relatively gentle ones) where the train doesn't slow to like 20km/h.

Having only ridden on it end to end once, I couldn't point out any locations on a map, but there were a number of places along the northern end where the train banks without slowing down from line speed at all - and line speed up there is fairly respectably high.

 

[ThenWhat]

getting close

 

[ishblack1]

Gotta be in March

 

[zang]

Gotta be in March

Naw…


Sorry, couldn’t resist.

 

[stevedean]

Gotta be in March

you didn't say which year

 

[bono47]

anyone heard any rumblings on how driver training or systems testing is progressing? tyia

needless to say I am, like everyone else, at a loss for why we don't have an official opening date

 

[evandyk]

This has caused me to eat a lot of crow at home. My wife started a new job at Bayview and Eglinton last September and I was telling her that the crosstown would soon open and make her commute easier. As delays mounted, I kept telling her the opening should be just around the corner. She is still laughing at me, more than a year later.

 

[TheGrimSweeper]

anyone heard any rumblings on how driver training or systems testing is progressing? tyia

needless to say I am, like everyone else, at a loss for why we don't have an official opening date

All comms go through me.

 

[stevedean]

This has caused me to eat a lot of crow at home. My wife started a new job at Bayview and Eglinton last September and I was telling her that the crosstown would soon open and make her commute easier. As delays mounted, I kept telling her the opening should be just around the corner. She is still laughing at me, more than a year later.

I moved into the area in 2021 and at the time they said it would be done by 2022. Then 2023... then no date provided... now we're at the end of 2024 and still no date provided...
I'm not even optimistic for 2025 at this point...

 

[Mihairokov]

I moved into the area in 2021 and at the time they said it would be done by 2022. Then 2023... then no date provided... now we're at the end of 2024 and still no date provided...
I'm not even optimistic for 2025 at this point...

It makes it really tough to be excited about Ontario Line or literally any other piece of infrastructure to other people when they can simply reply back about how long Crosstown has taken to be completed. Very easy to be pessimistic.

 

[Undead]

A friend brought me for advice when he was condo shopping at the Caledonia and Eglinton West area in November 2021.

I told him -- this is a great area, the LRT is coming soon.

Yeah...

 

[Northern Light]

A friend brought me for advice when he was condo shopping at the Caledonia and Eglinton West area in November 2021.

I told him -- this is a great area, the LRT is coming soon.

Yeah...

Remind me not to seek your advice when buying a condo.......... LOL

 

[Northern Light]

Saw this on my FB feed.......made me smile:

Source: https://scontent.fyto1-2.fna.fbcdn....xWMfTzuyAku-_DM41Hi6pivQdHzflGwxw&oe=673C8C22

 

[christiesplits]

I think people at least here are beginning to see the problem with the design choices taken with the ECLRT. We have a pseudo subway in the west paired up with a glorified streetcar in the east, I think operational issues will be inevitable due to the distinct modes of operation.

We may even see a splitting of the line with a well served, frequent "subway" in the western section, while we see an overcrowded and slow tram service in Scarborough due to at grade operations, lack of TSP, etc. Which would then further justify the existence of an "anti-Scaborough" conspiracy at city hall (which looks more true everyday if I'm being honest).

Not disagreeing about the likelihood of operational issues (and let's all hope that we're pleasantly surprised because Toronto transit really needs a good news story right now), but I don't think people here are just beginning to see the shortcomings of the ECLRT. They've been apparent since the project's inception.

I'm dreading many, many collisions with passenger vehicles in the at-grade sections, especially in the early years.