nfitz
Superstar
4 hours? Are you sure? GO tap ons are normally 3-hours, unless they've changed recently.... and your UPX ride expires within 4 hours if tapping-in on a GO Presto reader.
4 hours? Are you sure? GO tap ons are normally 3-hours, unless they've changed recently.... and your UPX ride expires within 4 hours if tapping-in on a GO Presto reader.
It has been 4 hours for a while now.4 hours? Are you sure? GO tap ons are normally 3-hours, unless they've changed recently.
Has anyone told SMART or are they aware of UPX problems with their train set since they are getting the same ones??
SMART was the first to order them with UPX Order being added on later. Smart is getting 14 sets for their 42 mile line.
All platforms will support 3 cars with Bloor and Weston up to 4. All Platforms will have to be rebuilt 100% going to more than 3/4 cars.
Your operating under the wrong assumption, the Sharyo units have been a disaster.
I can't even begin to list all the issues they've had so far. Many of the engine blocks have been replaced and the units aren't even a year old yet. Several consists have actually caught on fire while in service. And almost every day a revenue consist has to gets swapped out at some point for the spare. The team from Nippon, they still have employees from the company on site, are just praying that the units will hold up well enough until the one year date passes since apparently they'll be off the hook at that point. If not for the problems these unit have had, the o performance of the line would be close to 100%, they do after all have priority over all other train movements in the corridor.
Smallspy could document the issues for you better than I could since I've generally avoided working on them so I typically don't hear the day to day grumblings. If MX has any sense they will never even consider purchasing these units again.
Whoopee. More headaches for Metrolinx this summer as summer heat begins overheating the Sharyos again. Better make a tough decision if no accelerated electrification is occuring.I could but I'm going to pass, because you've summed up the biggest and most concerning issues thus far. While they are certainly excellent performance-wise on paper, they have not held up nearly as well as they rightfully should have.
Teething issues are to be expected, sure, but the sheer quantity of problems, and the vast variety of their sources, appears to be more than merely "teething". Indeed, there's already rumours floating about that the search is on for replacement equipment.
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Dan
Toronto, Ont.
GO's website says 3-hours -http://www.gotransit.com/public/en/fares/presto.aspx#defaultIt has been 4 hours for a while now.
The Kitchener and Niagara trains creates situations where you need more 3 hours for a long wait + delayed train, so probably GO adjusted this sometime long ago (years ago IIRC). 3 hours seems to come from before the era of 2-hr-long GO rides.
Has anyone told SMART or are they aware of UPX problems with their train set since they are getting the same ones??
SMART was the first to order them with UPX Order being added on later. Smart is getting 14 sets for their 42 mile line.
All platforms will support 3 cars with Bloor and Weston up to 4. All Platforms will have to be rebuilt 100% going to more than 3/4 cars.
March 19 Union Station
Photos for which problems are you talking about?? Photos for Platforms are on line. If you are talking about rolling stock, no since I have no access in the first place and mechanical is the major issue.Are your photos linked to the problems? Sorry I don't quite follow you. Are the big green cubes tool boxes to keep the trains running?
Looking forward to seeing Bombardier replacements here! The NS trains are very ugly.
The photos were to show what exist at Union and what impact it has to expand the current station to 4 or more cars and has nothing to do with UPX issues for SMART.I don't understand your original post then, you listed all these problems and said what a disaster the trains are and then showed a bunch of photos of the platforms.
What problems do the platforms present to the US operator (SMART?) that has 14 sets on order?
The UPX discussion bleeds over to GO Transit Construction Projects Thread, because UPX shares the GO corridor, and sometimes talk about UPX-related stuff also ends up there, for these reasons. There is more talk about the troublesome Nippon Sharyo SMART trains there too.Are there two UPX threads?
It's sometimes quite a puzzle to figure these posts out. There's a lot of information in there, but the non sequiturs and language issues make it challenging. I'm lost as well.I don't understand your original post then, you listed all these problems and said what a disaster the trains are and then showed a bunch of photos of the platforms.
What problems do the platforms present to the US operator (SMART?) that has 14 sets on order?