Amare
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Without any additional details, it sounds like a battery-electric bus.
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Johnny Au
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Good. There won't be a transit crisis like in New York City major enough to warrant a rather long Wikipedia article for now.
WillTo
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Does anyone know why the TTC is taping off the seats on the right hand side, after the first fare machine on the flexities?
drum118
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You mean this???
ShonTron
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That’s where the controller is for the pantograph. For a while, the operator had to raise or lower it at Parliament and Dundas, though now the entire 505 is operated with pantographs.
I don’t know where else the operator has to switch from pole to pantograph in revenue service, but I don’t like the closure of six seats when we’re still trying to maintaining physical distancing when possible.
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anb
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Sometimes i wish the spadina streetcar can be extended to st clair or even do the ultimate going to eglinton for the crosstown connection. The 512 streetcar really be feeling the Staten Island Railway by the way its separated from the rest of the streetcar network
What are the possibilities that we have for a widening on spadina if there is even any spacing?
What are the possibilities that we have for a widening on spadina if there is even any spacing?
Northern Light
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None.
Idea is a non-starter.
If you wanted to connect to St. Clair from the south, you would start by considering a route on Bathurst since the track is there.
TTC has looked at this in the past and determined it wouldn't generate many new riders and would likely inconvenience more than it helped. (assumption was made the cars would loop via St. Clair West Stn and Bathurst bus would end there)
The other points you would look at are major roads, which have been considered for streetcar in the past or previously had such a connection.
There are 3.
Dufferin, Jane and a connection via Dundas West going up either at Keele or Jane.
None of these will happen in the next 20 years.
Jane is the most likely to be considered for LRT, but that will require the westward extension of the St. Clair line first.
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I noticed the other day that the moveable barrier 'arm' at the entrance to the QQ streetcar tunnel to Union is no longer being used. They did create huge 'ruts' on the road surrounding the tracks and there are red flashing lights at the entrance portal and more bollards at York so I guess the arm was just an extra that they have given up on. We have not had any car in tunnel incidents for a while so .....
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W. K. Lis
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Actually, there is a "subway" serving Spadina Road. It's a section of Line 1 with stations at SPADINA (original suggested name of LOWTHER), DUPONT, and ST. CLAIR AVENUE WEST, before veering west of Bathurst Street and continuing northwest. There was a moving sidewalk between the SPADINA station on Line 2 and the SPADINA station on Line 1, but the bean-counters (who obviously don't use public transit) got rid of it (see link).
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kali
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drum118
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Na!!.....I haven't seen the arm in service for most of the year and think TTC drivers were having too many issues with it.
Northern Light
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The TTC knew there were issues w/the switch that caused the Keele yard area derailment back in January up to 2 years earlier; they failed to fix it.
www.thestar.com
TTC was warned about a broken switch years before January subway derailment, but did nothing, internal emails show
The TTC blamed a missing piece of equipment for a subway derailment that caused commuter chaos. Emails show the agency knew more than two years before the accident that the part was missing, but never replaced it.
www.thestar.com