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Hello from Sunny England!

Judging by all the emails that I'm getting it appears the rain is wreaking havoc upon the transit system there.

How bad is the rain impacting things?

It seems like every 5 minutes something is closed or diverted for flooding.
 
Hello from Sunny England!

Judging by all the emails that I'm getting it appears the rain is wreaking havoc upon the transit system there.

How bad is the rain impacting things?

It seems like every 5 minutes something is closed or diverted for flooding.
It's the usual flash flood spots, around Front Street and the road tunnels under the railway, the lower Don River, etc.
Though I don't know how much more you can divert routes in the City before they're functionally totally another route.
Hopefully this doesn't delay the reopening of King/Church, though when I passed there about 1:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon there was literally no one working.
 
Trains bypassing St. Patrick, Lawrence and Pape due to flooding issues.

GO Trains bypassing Exhibition and Long Branch.

and service on the K-W corridor is turning back at Malton
 
No service Jane to Kipling or from St. George to King due to power failures.

And no TTC website? (its a placeholder page with very limited info and no links). Did someone leave the webserver in the basement?
 
That's not necessarily just for web hosting, you can have all your VM's up there.

"The agreement grants the TTC access to Microsoft's Azurecloud computing platform, which is used by the TTC as its data warehouse andanalytics platform and to host its public facing sites on a secure and scalable cloudinfrastructure"
What is TTC paying Microsoft Azure >$1 million per year for if not a website that can handle a surge in traffic?
 
If you are running your infra in Azure, AWS might be the best place for your website. Try to have everything not go down at once. But if I recall correctly they do store documents in MS cloud because Steve Munro complained over link breakage when they switched content from one storage type to a different one
 
That 1 million for cloud infra goes to way more than just a website, id put money that things like nextbus or other control center server infrastructure runs on those cloud services in Azure.
id put money on the ttc.ca site barely using a fraction of that not adding things like multi-az failover
 
This would seem likely to be about subway cars...


Published Wednesday, July 17, 2024 8:56AM EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit a transit facility with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland today.
The Prime Minister's Office provided few details about the visit, which is set to take place around 10:30 a.m.
However it comes as the city eagerly awaits word from Ottawa on whether the federal government twill kick in hundreds of millions of dollars needed to purchase new subway trains to replace the aging Line 2 vehicles.
 
This would seem likely to be about subway cars...


Published Wednesday, July 17, 2024 8:56AM EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to visit a transit facility with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland today.
The Prime Minister's Office provided few details about the visit, which is set to take place around 10:30 a.m.
However it comes as the city eagerly awaits word from Ottawa on whether the federal government twill kick in hundreds of millions of dollars needed to purchase new subway trains to replace the aging Line 2 vehicles.

This was the announcement;

 
This was the announcement;

Here's a translation from Federal Government to English.

Federal government to announce and cancel the Canada Public Transit Fund

From: No Housing, Deferred Infrastructure, and Sprawl Canada

Background

Since 2015, the Government of Canada has invested over $30 billion in more than 2,000 projects across the country, supporting a variety of construction sites, from new underground construction in Canada’s biggest cities such as the Millenium [sic] Broadway Subway Extension project in Vancouver, to construction lines in major cities such as the Finch West construction line project in Toronto, and to new transit solutions in rural communities. Funding was delivered through a variety of paperwork creating programs, continuing the Canadian policy tradition.

The Government of Canada’s commitment to strengthening paperwork, paint, and construction sites across the country is stronger than ever. Today’s announcement provides detailed information on how the new Canada Public Transit Fund will be cancelled by the inevitable Poilievre government.

The new, cancellable Canada Public Transit Fund

The new Canada Public Transit Fund (CPTF) will transform the delivery of federal funding for transit by allowing Poilievre to cancel all transit funding with one program cancellation, showing our commitment to what Paige Saunders called our "lurching, majoritarian governments."

With the launch of the new CPTF, all orders of government, and transit authorities will work together to cancel transit funding, thus ensuring higher costs for transit in the future. This approach will better respond to the needs of pickup trucks of large sizes across Canada by providing stable and predictable federal funding for projects, which is to say, not at all.

Harming Canadians

The CPTF program disables access to modern and efficient public transit infrastructure.
The upcoming cancellation of the new Canada Public Transit Fund aims to:
  • dash hopes that we can enhance capacity to meet demand for better transit services, especially in growing regions
  • dash hopes that we can reduce car dependency by increasing the use of public transit and active transportation
  • dash hopes that we can contribute to climate change mitigation and increased resilience; and
  • dash hopes that we can support economic growth and improving transportation options for equity-deserving groups

Details on the cancellation of the new Canada Public Transit Fund

The CPTF cancels longer-term transit needs and leverages the fighting between partners to cancel federal funding. With no new and cancelled existing programs, funds will not be delivered.

With the upcoming election of Pierre Poilievre, it's inevitable that we'll be voted out of office. Thus, we can promise everything from daycare to increased military spending, and know that we won't deliver. (/bleh) Thus, presenting the CPTF, which will begin spending money in two years.

Wait, isn't spending money everywhere our specialty?

Minister for No Housing, Deferred Infrastructure, and Sprawl Canada
- The Somewhat Honourable Sean Fraser

Honest Thoughts
What's even the point? Maybe PP'll be Doug Ford, but I'm not holding my breath, and I can see a cancellation of the CPTF before it ever provides any funding. Right now we're headed towards dashed hopes and lost opportunities. /sigh
 
The money from the CPTF can be used (if government wishes) to award tenders now. Most money in most large tenders is pay on delivery net 'x' days.

A new subway car tender today, will not be seeing any deliveries this year or next.

Now whether the government chooses to get that money out the door and tenders awarded is a different question.
 

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