In general, I seek to deal in substantive facts, rather than anecdotes; but today, I feel like sharing one of the latter.
I was on the TTC yesterday.........and my experience w/their communication and operation was less than ideal.
1) I boarded line 1 just before evening rush, at College Station.
When I boarded, I found out the train was holding due to a medical emergency at Lawrence.
First observation, that's quite the back up to have service slowed down that far south...........and I wonder what the response time was like from EMS, in a previous situation where I was present the response time (EMS to platform level was well outside of guidelines for response times.
Second observation, they were apparently making use of ATC to turn back every second train at Eglinton and send the other trains north operating bidirectionally (alternating w/SB service Good.
But....the delay at College was about 15 minutes for me, then the train moved north to Wellesley and held for another 5+ minutes before moving on to Bloor.
ATC allows trains to get quite close together, much closer than they actually were. My overall impression is that they did not use the system to its potential.
I'm also curious is they literally alternating one train north, one south, over the affected area. It strikes me, that with ATC, and the distances involved, it would probably have worked better to move trains in alternate directions two at a time.
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2) I get to Bloor and Transfer to Line 2, bit of a wait, but nothing too bad, service moved along fine.
There was an announcement of a power out situation in the west end, somewhere west of Ossington, but that didn't impact me.
However, we did get held at Coxwell. There was no crew change...........and the hold was a good solid 5 minutes, with no announcement as to why.
Overall not a great impression.
