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TTC Report. This time, I've got to admire their creativity in avoiding the use of shuttle buses. The bonus is that we will be able to pass through Lower Bay on in service trains.


TORONTO TRANSIT COMMISSION
MEETING DATE: DECEMBER 13, 2006

SUBJECT: REVISED WEEKEND SUBWAY SERVICE, FEBRUARY 18 TO MARCH 31, 2007
RECOMMENDATIONS

It is recommended that the Commission:

1. Receive this report for information, noting that a revised subway service, as described below, will be operated on the 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway on Saturdays and Sundays from February 18 to March 31, 2007, in order to permit necessary tunnel repairs...

FUNDING

This report has no effect on the TTC’s operating or capital budgets.

BACKGROUND

Revised weekend subway service must be operated on Saturdays and Sundays from February 18 to March 31, 2007, to permit necessary major structural repairs to the Bloor-Danforth Subway tunnel roof between St. George and Bay stations. This work, part of the capital budget Bridges/Structure Maintenance Program, involves the demolition of the existing severely-deteriorated tunnel roof at the point where the subway passes under the Park Hyatt Toronto Hotel. The work requires the use of specialized demolition equipment inside the subway tunnels for three weekends, and other related preparatory and clean-up work on the remaining weekends. The tunnels must be removed from service during all of this work.


DISCUSSION

The revised service has been designed to minimize inconvenience to customers, maintain as much of the normal subway service pattern as possible, and avoid the use of shuttle buses.

Saturday and Sunday service on the 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway will be split into two separate services, and will be extended onto the University Subway to terminate at Museum Station. Service will be provided between Kipling Station and Museum Station, and between Kennedy Station and Museum Station. Customers making a through-journey between the east and west portions of the 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway will have to transfer at Museum Station, which has a centre platform and thus allows easy cross-platform transfers. There will be no change to the route of the 1 Yonge-University-Spadina Subway. The attached map shows the revised service.

Bay Station will be closed entirely, and 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway trains will not stop at the station. Customers will have to walk to Bloor-Yonge Station or to Museum Station. The walk to Bloor-Yonge Station can be made entirely inside from Bay Street, by way of the PATH walkway through adjacent commercial properties.

The lower level of St. George Station will be closed, and 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway trains will serve the upper level of St. George Station, the same platform used by trains on the 1 Yonge-University-Spadina Subway.

Trains on both the 1 Yonge-University-Spadina Subway and 2 Bloor-Danforth Subway will be scheduled to operate every six minutes on Saturdays and Sundays, instead of the usual four- to five-minute service. This is necessary in order to allow the operation of an evenly-spaced service over the short section of the University Subway where the two routes will share the same tracks. Some delays to trains are possible, however, and additional staff resources will be used to manage the service and to provide information to customers.

This revised service will operate on a total of six Saturdays (February 24, March 3, 10, 17, 24, and 31) and six Sundays (February 18, 25, March 4, 11, 18, 25). Regular service will resume on Sunday, April 1, 2007. There will be no change to service from Mondays to Fridays, which will continue to operate normally.

This revised service is possible because of existing underground track connections between the University Subway and the east and west portions of the Bloor-Danforth Subway. This track connection, or “wyeâ€, was briefly used for passenger service in 1966, and since then, has been in regular use by work trains and not-in-service trains. The wye happens to be located in just the right position to allow trains to avoid the section of tunnel that must be closed for this project. At most other locations on the subway system, the flexibility provided by an alternative routing does not exist.

SUMMARY

Revised weekend subway service is necessary because of essential repair work to the subway tunnels. The service that will be operated will minimize the inconvenience to customers.
 
Okay, at long last, Toronto's answer to NYC's 6 train loop through City Hall Station...
 
Why not have the train stop at Museum station and then continue on in the same direction back on the BD line, instead of having to transfer....
 
Article

Tunnel repairs to force rare subway detour
JEFF GRAY

On seven weekends in the new year, Bay station will close and Bloor-Danforth subway trains from both directions will do something they haven't done in 40 years -- turn south and head down the University line.

The radical rerouting is necessary, the TTC says, to allow crews time to repair the "severely deteriorated" tunnel roof between Bay and St. George stations.

"That work has to be done, and it cannot be done with trains in operation," said Mitch Stambler, the Toronto Transit Commission's manager of service planning. "So we have to circumvent the affected part of the tunnel."

The detour will see Bay station closed, on Saturday and Sundays only, from Feb. 18 to March 31. Eastbound and westbound Bloor-Danforth trains will bypass the station and turn south, terminating at Museum.

Passengers who want to continue west or east will have to change trains at Museum, and TTC staff will be on hand to answer questions about what train to take, Mr. Stambler said.

The trains will travel on a little-known track connection between the city's two major subway lines, called in rail terminology a "wye," which was used briefly for passenger service when the Bloor-Danforth line opened in 1966. The extra tracks are now usually reserved for out-of-service or work trains. This type of rerouting would be impossible elsewhere on the system.

Westbound trains will pass quickly through "Lower Bay" station, which is no longer used except as a movie stand-in for stations in other cities.

Scenes in the 1994 science-fiction film Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves, were shot there. Subway trains will not stop at this phantom station.

TTC officials say the unusual rerouting will save passengers the inconvenience of having to switch to shuttle buses, which cannot handle subway passenger volumes.

On the affected weekends, trains across the system will operate less frequently, however -- every six minutes instead of every four to five minutes -- a change the TTC says is required because both routes will be using the same tracks going into Museum. The lower level of St. George station will also close, and all trains in and out of the station will use its upper tracks.

The TTC says there will be major structural repairs of the roof of the Bloor-Danforth subway tunnel, almost directly under the Park Hyatt Hotel at Bloor Street and Avenue Road. The existing roof must be replaced.

The demolition will take place over three weekends; the other weekends will be used for preparation and cleanup.

The planned rerouting is on the agenda tomorrow for the first full TTC meeting since the municipal election, which will see vice-chairman Adam Giambrone take the helm from Howard Moscoe.

The new commission will also discuss the proposed $60-million overhaul for Kipling and Islington stations, meant to provide better links between GO Transit, Mississauga Transit and the TTC, as well as spur redevelopment in the area.

The TTC will also debate a plan to ask for $12.4-million to begin preliminary work on the $2-billion Spadina subway extension, including designing stations, despite the lack of federal funding for the project.

This year, the province put $670-million in a trust fund for the extension, but the federal government has yet to sign on to the project, which could take as long as eight years to complete.

Commissioners will also be asked to approve $350,000 in "unbudgeted expenditures" charged by management-side labour-law firm Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP.

The TTC says the higher-than-expected fees are the result of the commission encountering "more disputes and arbitrations" than anticipated.

The TTC, which suffered a wildcat strike in May, also faced a fight with its employees over who would pay the new Ontario health tax and battles over workplace safety.
 
In many ways it feels as if the TTC subway system is lacking in crossovers. Since the section of track that will be out of service contains one, the next possible turn-around point for inbound trains is Ossington in the west and Chester in the east. Seems like there should be crossovers before Yonge and St. George stations so that trains could reach the transfer points, leaving only through passengers to find alternate arrangements. This is the way it is for the Spadina and northern Yonge lines.
 
It is to take place on the 25th now with a PR campaign in the coming days by TV and newspapers.

No notice up at stations yet.

Better still, lets surprise the riders and total confuse them this Sat with no notice.
 
Yeah that makes more sense, I was beginning to get worried that there were no notices.
 
So that's what an east-west subway line would look like with a modest jog in it. Intriguing :evil !
 
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Yes I saw those signs at St. George Station today.

In fact the westbound B/D trains will stop upstairs at St. George on the yellow line.
 
Re: Doors Open

That's pretty cool. About time.

Though possibly only open for 3 hours the entire weekend? That's just remarkably stupid. The lineups for that would make the lineups for the TD Centre or Carlu look like nothing. Geez.
 
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