Mihairokov
Active Member
The trains would have to be running for that to happen in Ottawa.
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evandyk
Senior Member
They're major suburbanites, so rarely go downtown now that they don't work. I think my dad retired before the train was even in service.
Amare
Senior Member
Well it seems like after 2 full weekend closures and 1 full week of early nightly subway closures, the only net benefit riders are getting is the removal of the St.George to Spadina speed restriction.
December 9th, 2024
They did however, finally address the Victoria Park-Warden speed restricted area, Sheppard-Bayview restriction, and Summerhill-Rosedale restrictions. Let's see how long those last for...
TTCdinosaur
Active Member
Joke of a city, joke of a system. I'm not sure why people still torture themselves like this unless they can't afford cars and Ubers.
felix123
Active Member
I think many of them can't. It's too bad there's no will to build much of an RT network downtown, and no meaningful improvements to the streetcar network either. Most of what's on the books is pretty suburban-focused (Sheppard is the suburbs to me).
Nevertheless I think there will be a better system in TO by the early 2030's with the Ontario line, line 6 and lines 2 and 5 extensions in service, plus GO transforming from its current commuter mediocrity into useful transit.
evandyk
Senior Member
Assuming you live/work near the subway, which hundreds of thousands of people do, It's still generally much faster to get to destinations that are also close to the subway than driving anywhere along the subway routes between roughly Dufferin, Greenwood and south of St. Clair.
I own a car and can easily afford to drive to work. Parking would be several times what I pay for a month of TTC fares, but it's only a couple of hundred bucks a month. But it would take quite a bit longer, and you have to face the aggravation of dealing with other drivers day in and day out. I much prefer my TTC commute to the days when I had to drive to work.
I own a car and can easily afford to drive to work. Parking would be several times what I pay for a month of TTC fares, but it's only a couple of hundred bucks a month. But it would take quite a bit longer, and you have to face the aggravation of dealing with other drivers day in and day out. I much prefer my TTC commute to the days when I had to drive to work.
evandyk
Senior Member
And driving has "major operational issues" all the time too. They created an entire industry of radio stations that take time every ten minutes to tell you about the highway network's "major operational issues". My subway commute is 30 minutes door to door every day of the week, any time of day. If I drove, it would be between 20 and 50 minutes and much less predictable. Also, I wouldn't be able to read during my commute.
turbanplanner
Senior Member
I took the TTC daily for years but it's so much worse than it's ever been, also people seem to have forgotten they're in a shared space and not their living room. Even on the GO the quiet zone is basically non existent, I can't get onto a single TTC vehicle without having to hear someone's instagram reels or tiktok fyp!
mrgrieves
Active Member
this was updated Dec 10. a bunch of the slow zones went away
Amare
Senior Member
Miracles exists after all, we'll have to see how long these resolutions last with this inept organization.
Dec 10, 2024
Richard White
Senior Member
Oh FFS.. not again.
Has anyone considered flaming beacons ala Lord Of The Rings?
Hillcrest calls for aid!
Has anyone considered flaming beacons ala Lord Of The Rings?
Hillcrest calls for aid!
Amare
Senior Member
This is the 3rd time in a week the entire Line 1 has been down due to signal issues, it happened again last night as well.
The clown show just keeps going, with no end in sight, and frankly this is just an embarrassment. Is there anything they can do properly at this point?
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Northern Light
Superstar
Both Olivia and Greg Percy need to be at a news conference by this afternoon with an apology and some sort of explanation as well as assurance this will stop happening.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
If they had any sense of ownership they should have done it the first (for the CEO) and second (the mayor) time it happened. At this point the lack of care is obvious.
AoD