Johnny Au
Senior Member
There's a reason why @AlvinofDiaspar uses HAL9000 as his avatar.Each new streetcar, light rail vehicle, and Toronto Rocket uses the knew HAL 9000 computer. The HAL 9000 does knot make mistakes, Dave.
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AlvinofDiaspar
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No, I just read lips, metaphorically speaking. Can you go and check out the AE-35 unit while you're at it? It is going to go 100 percent failure within 72 hours.
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EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
no it's the speech to text program it did the same thing when they started it with buses it reads the number as it should be and not how it gets said it needs to be reprogramed to the way we say it.
W. K. Lis
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W. K. Lis
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W. K. Lis
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steveintoronto
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Lots of great info in there (and huge envy on my part, I loved SF), but one of the ones that immediately struck me:
(gist) "All door boarding has reduced fare evasion".
And Googling shows articles on exactly that:
http://sf.streetsblog.org/2014/12/0...-still-means-quicker-buses-less-fare-evasion/All-Door Muni Boarding Still Means Quicker Buses, Less Fare Evasion
Two years after Muni launched all-door boarding, the agency continues to report [PDF] quicker boardings and lower rates of fare evasion.
As SFBay reported, SFMTA Performance Manager Jason Lee told the agency’s board yesterday that “dwell times,” the amount of time buses spend waiting at stops, have decreased by an average of 38 percent systemwide. Dwell times are also more consistent across the city, since the longest bus stops have seen the most improvement. Since 2011, average bus travel speeds have increased from 8.41 mph to 8.56 mph.
“That may not seem like a lot, but it adds up,” said Lee.
Fare evasion, meanwhile, dropped from 9.5 percent in 2009 to an estimated 7.9 percent in 2014, translating to an estimated $2.1 million in annual savings.
The results contradict predictions from critics who said all-door boarding would encourage fare evasion. Previously, bus operators had to verify and enforce payment at the front door. Now, buses use a “proof of payment” system, as had been the policy on light-rail lines for decades, where fare inspectors randomly check whether passengers have paid their fares. Inspection staff levels were boosted from 41 to 54 when all-door boarding launched.
Other factors beyond boarding policy could have influenced bus speeds and fare evasion. Christopher Grabarkiewctz, SFMTA’s director of security, investigations and enforcement, noted that an improved economy could mean more riders have money to pay fares, and more riders are tagging Clipper cards rather than paying with time-consuming cash.
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So what in hell has happened in Toronto? Perhaps the TTC execs are looking for excuses? Perhaps Cdns aren't as honest as Americans? Perhaps the TTC is full of big smelly doo-doos?
Perhaps Peter Ustinov has his "Toronto is New York run by the Swiss" close, but not quite? More like "run by the Ditz".
Johnny Au
Senior Member
Only if 29 Dufferin had all-door boarding (along with each fare inspector at both entrances of Dufferin station (at street level for both))...
DSC
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The TTC has just moved the 121 stop (eastbound) from the corner of bay Street (at the TTC subway exit) to in front of the Dominion Public Building. Naturally there is no indication at the old location that the stop has been moved and they clearly did not think of the (in)convenience to customers transferring to the 121 from the subway, GO, VIA or UP Express. The next stop further west is now at Simcoe. While I agree that bus stops can be too close together it makes little sense not to have one easily accessible (and visible) in front of Canada's busiest passenger terminal.
Megaton327
Senior Member
Wow, that's a little ridiculous. Not like that's much farther east to walk, but it's silly--Union is an obviously logical transfer point, this makes a nearly-nonexistent walk to connect between the subway and the bus into a not-insignificant walk given the intersection crossing potentially adding time.
W. K. Lis
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From Streetsblog.org, at this link:
An All-Too-Rare Idea to Improve Transit: Put People Who Ride Transit in Charge
Currently, on the TTC board, we have non-transit users as commissioners, including Councillors who don't use the TTC except for photo-ops.
An All-Too-Rare Idea to Improve Transit: Put People Who Ride Transit in Charge
Currently, on the TTC board, we have non-transit users as commissioners, including Councillors who don't use the TTC except for photo-ops.
It’s hard to improve transit service if the people who oversee transit policy don’t know what makes for good service. And yet, agency boards are often dominated by political hacks with little or no transit expertise — many don’t even know what it’s like to ride the transit systems they oversee.
Dallas is trying something different. To shake things up at DART, the Dallas City Council is appointing a new slate of board members. Long-time board members are being replaced with regular riders, transit advocates, and people with real transit policy expertise.
The editorial board of the Dallas Morning News says the changes are likely to bring about real benefits for riders:
More recommended reading today: The New Jersey Bike and Walk Coalition says a new law will require drivers ed courses to teach students how to drive safely around cyclists and pedestrians. And Systemic Failure offers another example of foreign railcar manufacturers struggling to adhere to America’s bizarre, outdated safety standards.
Dallas is trying something different. To shake things up at DART, the Dallas City Council is appointing a new slate of board members. Long-time board members are being replaced with regular riders, transit advocates, and people with real transit policy expertise.
The editorial board of the Dallas Morning News says the changes are likely to bring about real benefits for riders:
The Dallas City Council’s house-cleaning of DART representatives this week signals a wise pivot to what matters most: Ensuring that the regional transit agency lures new customers and does right by those who rely on its service, yet too often are let down.
The newcomers named on Wednesday are formidable choices, based on their credentials and interviews earlier this month. All of them are frequent Dallas Area Rapid Transit users, and each showed an understanding of the agency as well as the shortcomings that consistently bedevil Dallas residents who must depend 24-7 on the system.
The appointees’ answers reflect fresh, practical ideas for improvements, while long-time board members voiced a relatively hands-off approach to DART accountability.
A key priority for the new board members, reports Brandon Formby at the Texas Tribune, is to focus on improving bus service in the central city instead of far-flung rail expansions.The newcomers named on Wednesday are formidable choices, based on their credentials and interviews earlier this month. All of them are frequent Dallas Area Rapid Transit users, and each showed an understanding of the agency as well as the shortcomings that consistently bedevil Dallas residents who must depend 24-7 on the system.
The appointees’ answers reflect fresh, practical ideas for improvements, while long-time board members voiced a relatively hands-off approach to DART accountability.
More recommended reading today: The New Jersey Bike and Walk Coalition says a new law will require drivers ed courses to teach students how to drive safely around cyclists and pedestrians. And Systemic Failure offers another example of foreign railcar manufacturers struggling to adhere to America’s bizarre, outdated safety standards.
Megaton327
Senior Member
What a silly idea. Have people who actually know the system in charge of it? That'll never fly in Toronto. It's much more logical to have suburban car drivers make the big decisions, as they're who the transit system should be designed to serve best/inconvenience the least.
Steve X
Senior Member
Right now we have people who proposes to run a downtown express on Yonge street cause subways are too full on the board. They also think there is a Dufferin express bus, consider running a bus from Kipling to Union to relief subway, believe riders have to wait 3 or 4 trains to get on the Bloor-Danforth line and etc. They also ask very basic questions that any rider would have known and have a two hour discussion on disposing a bus loop and turning it into a park.
How can we allow other people to do their job? They'll shorten those meetings to 30 minutes!
How can we allow other people to do their job? They'll shorten those meetings to 30 minutes!
smallspy
Senior Member
Anytime they've tried that here, the panel suggested direct downtown-to-Scarborough Town Centre buses, and similar things. So yeah, I'm sure that it'll work out great.
Dan
Toronto, Ont.
Juan_Lennon416
Senior Member
...and SF is using buses. Not every solution to better transit in Toronto is LRTs or subways. Sheppard East could easily be a BRT running in its own private lane.