robmausser
Senior Member
Yes exactly. 99.9% of the 501 route can be Panto ready, and thus the streetcars can make it to leslie car house, but 99.9% is not 100%, and thus until those last bits are done, you can't have the actual 501 running panto.
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Yes exactly. 99.9% of the 501 route can be Panto ready, and thus the streetcars can make it to leslie car house, but 99.9% is not 100%, and thus until those last bits are done, you can't have the actual 501 running panto.
muller877
Senior Member
Here are my comments on the benefits (I only know of Local 2's):
Vacation time - most companies stop granting after 3 or 4 weeks. TTC still grants 6 weeks of vacation for long-term employees
Advance pay prior to vacation. (huh? This is a thing?)
Extra 2 days of Stat Holidays (why?)
Emergency days plus sick days (most people only get 2 emergency days)
Pension - most companies have converted any future plan increase as DC (so older employees have an fixed DB plan and a growing DC plan)
Group Life - most companies the employee pays the entire amount (there is 50% or 100% funding for 2x salary per the TTC plan)
Glasses & Hearing aides - $45o every 2 years for glasses, $1000 every year for hearing aides. Most benefits are much less (and they have to pay for some of it)
Prescriptions - $1 per drug order. Most companies cover 80%
Dental - 100% of normal checks. Again, most companies cover 70% or 80%
Dental - coverage for 10 years after retirement?
Jury Pay - most people just have to take a day off work
1 hour of paid break time (30 min lunch, 2x10 min break, 2x5 min wash). Most companies do not pay you for lunch (anymore)
Overtime - it's after 8 hours and double time. Most companies give 1 1/2 after 44 hours (and double time after 48)
Shift premiums (including Sundays) - most companies give no premium. They rotate who has to do this work
TTC pass for retiree's
etc
These benefits add up And both the base and the benefits are in excess of what workers outside the civil service receive.
drum118
Superstar
If 504 is not to be ready for pans until 2020, how can 514 be in 2019, when it runs over the same sections as 504 that still needs upgrading??
Most of 504 west of Bathurst is pan ready, other than Shaw Intersection, Queen/Roncesvalle Intersection to be rebuilt in 2019 during the rebuilding of the tracks and new platforms.
Most of 504 west of Bathurst is pan ready, other than Shaw Intersection, Queen/Roncesvalle Intersection to be rebuilt in 2019 during the rebuilding of the tracks and new platforms.
DSCToronto
Superstar
Agreed, it really makes very little sense. The sections that seem to need upgrading are in the shared 504-514 (and 503) section between about Bathurst and Parliament (including Church/King and Parliament/King.
Northern Light
Superstar
TTC agenda is online for May 8th.
http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...mmission_meetings/2018/May_8/Agenda/index.jsp
There are a few confidential items, including TTC office consolidation and liquidated damages from Bombardier on the Flexity order.
The notable item, to me, is the service increases for September, listed in this report.
http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...y_Improvements_on_Bus_and_Subway_Services.pdf
Said report also proposes to launch all the new express services which had been contemplated for 2021 at the same time.
Good start, a great deal more improvement remains.
http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...mmission_meetings/2018/May_8/Agenda/index.jsp
There are a few confidential items, including TTC office consolidation and liquidated damages from Bombardier on the Flexity order.
The notable item, to me, is the service increases for September, listed in this report.
http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...y_Improvements_on_Bus_and_Subway_Services.pdf
Said report also proposes to launch all the new express services which had been contemplated for 2021 at the same time.
Good start, a great deal more improvement remains.
Northern Light
Superstar
There are one or two items I would take issue w/there.
The rest are entirely reasonable benefits payable by most decent private sector employers today.
The fact that too many employers are borderline abusive in their willingness to reduce benefits and working conditions speaks ill of them and not of staff or businesses which aren't so miserable.
I'm completely lost on your championing of a race to the bottom.
You seem to advocate that because you or someone you know has to put up w/miserable conditions, everyone else should.
Turn that around, stop putting up w/crap that you shouldn't have to.
The entire EU, including the UK, as well as Australia all provide a minimum of 4 weeks paid vacation in the most entry level job, in the first year.
No one here should have to abide less.
The solution to inequity is not cutting down the people doing well, its raising up the people who are not.
In the U.S. of all places (bastion of socialism, ya know) paid sick days have been passed as a legal requirement in 9 states. The typical requirement is 5 days.
I've never worked for an employer that didn't provide 10, and all my employment has been private sector and/or NGO.
Its a given that meal breaks should be paid.
That the law doesn't currently require that is a shame, and the law should be changed.
Universal Pharmacare would address the variation in benefits of this type.
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I would personally do away w/Sunday premiums, unless they are universal, in which case they should really be 'weekend' premiums. But i digress, there is no political appetite for that sort of premium in North America at this time.
Other than that and some streamlining of the whole personal day/sick day/emergency day thing which does seem a tad convoluted......
The rest is pretty fair.
Health costs for retirees should be covered, by government, for everyone.
TheTigerMaster
Superstar
Why can't the express service launch sooner?
Northern Light
Superstar
Perhaps I was unclear.
They are moving up the launch date of the new express services to September of this year.
They were previously set for 2021.
Kitsune
Senior Member
Here is the report for stop relocation ... or atleast the latest bit of info that can be found... its from 2014, nothing current: http://www.ttc.ca/About_the_TTC/Com...n_Safety_andvCustomer_Journey__Times_Tran.pdf
Here's what the report says to be removed:
Lake Shore at Summerhill Lake Crescent .
Queen at Abell/Beaconsfield*
McCaul York
Carolyn/Brooklyn
And to consolidate:
Connaught, and at Woodward/Kent, into a single location midway between – at Woodfield
Waverly and at Lee – single location midway between - at Bellefair
Why is this an issue? Because in Beaches alone these are also getting moved:
Kippendavie to Elmer.
Scaraborough Beach and Mclean combined into one stop at Glen Manor.
Spruce Hill is being moved to Beech.
... which appears to make a 400m gap between stops at Glen Manor and Beech. I'm going to assume a stop might be being added at midway point at Balsalm due to a wheelchair cutout inplace, however without any current report they could have since changed there mind. Going along Queen you can also see a lot of other stops having posts about relocation. The posters only state a phone number to call, no mention of anything on their website.
Here's what the report says to be removed:
Lake Shore at Summerhill Lake Crescent .
Queen at Abell/Beaconsfield*
McCaul York
Carolyn/Brooklyn
And to consolidate:
Connaught, and at Woodward/Kent, into a single location midway between – at Woodfield
Waverly and at Lee – single location midway between - at Bellefair
Why is this an issue? Because in Beaches alone these are also getting moved:
Kippendavie to Elmer.
Scaraborough Beach and Mclean combined into one stop at Glen Manor.
Spruce Hill is being moved to Beech.
... which appears to make a 400m gap between stops at Glen Manor and Beech. I'm going to assume a stop might be being added at midway point at Balsalm due to a wheelchair cutout inplace, however without any current report they could have since changed there mind. Going along Queen you can also see a lot of other stops having posts about relocation. The posters only state a phone number to call, no mention of anything on their website.
dowlingm
Senior Member
511 should be ready for panto now, presumably the delay is vehicle related - not fully allocating Flexities before then. Perhaps that is the limiting factor on other pre-2020 route cutovers also.
muller877
Senior Member
Great that they are starting to remove stops. Good first step but took way too long to come to an conclusion that should have been made in a day. Too bad there is not the same scrutiny on the 9,500 stops for bus service. Plus St Clair
Richard White
Senior Member
Actually there was. We got rid of Sunday stops and relocated others.
You can't just remove stops without consulting the local community. Just because you don't use a particular stop doesn't mean others don't as well.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
I saw another example today that goes to prove that my theory that General TTC riders are idiots. I was at Kennedy today on the SRT platform and the doors only opened on the one side (unload platform) one poerson satyed waiting for the dors on the enother side to open (load side) and then forced ther way through the creowd getting on. I reelly don't get why people don't get whyl do that that don't need to use the elivator.
Richard White
Senior Member
It happens regularly. Try not to stress.
EastYorkTTCFan
Senior Member
They don't have to do that they can just look at pasanger numbers for pole that get on a aparticular stop and alos how close it is to the next one.