Richard White
Senior Member
They finally got rid of Line 3 in the latest Ride Guide Lite.
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It still exists in my 1980s in-car map that I have framed.
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They finally got rid of Line 3 in the latest Ride Guide Lite.
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The changes to and expansion of the carhouse is to follow after 2025. This on the TTC site: https://www.ttc.ca/about-the-ttc/projects-and-plans/Russell-CarhouseJan 14
Could find a place to part to shoot the south of Russell, but I don't think trackwork had yet to get there
One thing I noticed doing the photos, doesn't look like they have made no provisions for the carhouse extension on the west side
I know of the plan for the extension, but if you look at the photo showing the 2 tracks being installed in the same location as they were before along with the poles, where do you place the west wall without removing the poles?? You can do the same thing as the west side of the yard and use the structural columns of the carhouse to support the overhead.The changes to and expansion of the carhouse is to follow after 2025. This on the TTC site: https://www.ttc.ca/about-the-ttc/projects-and-plans/Russell-Carhouse
Next steps:
- Carhouse extension and modifications (start date: as early as 2025 – 2028, TBD*):
- Construct the west extension of the carhouse to allow for an additional maintenance bay for new streetcars.
- Upgrade the existing carhouse building to accommodate new streetcars.
- Reconfigure maintenance tracks and pits in the carhouse for maintenance.
If I am reading this right, there is no funding for a new yard for Line 2 as well the new Kipling garage unless it lump into the 2029-2033 cost for Key BuildingsThe TTC's presentation to budget Committee went live today on the City's website:
Most of it is stuff we already know, but I liked this slide, which I don't recall previously seeing:
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This one is also useful, I think:
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If I am reading this right, there is no funding for a new yard for Line 2 as well the new Kipling garage unless it lump into the 2029-2033 cost for Key Buildings
I can see it one sense when controlling the doors at one end, but not both ends at the same time.So....is there any plan to stop doing this? Or must we tolerate a loss of 10+* passenger spaces per train for the rest of the T1 lifespan, long may it be?
* possibly more, depending on whether the Greenwood yard workers bother taking down the barriers in the non leading cars. They seem to do that now, they didn't for much of the last year
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It goes back a lot further than John Tory, but he pay a big part in the backlog. It goes back to the 1980's recession, the Mike Harris downloading as well an council who were non transit supporters.Just looking at the budget, it's astonishing how screwed up John Tory left the city and how and approved but unfunded list grew so long to the point that it even after 2 decades the city still wont come anywhere close to fully funding a huge part of it.
But yet there are people living in the city that seem to think that there's still a magical "gravy train".
No, this will not be changing.So....is there any plan to stop doing this? Or must we tolerate a loss of 10+* passenger spaces per train for the rest of the T1 lifespan, long may it be?
* possibly more, depending on whether the Greenwood yard workers bother taking down the barriers in the non leading cars. They seem to do that now, they didn't for much of the last year
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I bet they would wall it off with plexiglass if violence gets worst in the subway or if an employee gets attacked more often.So....is there any plan to stop doing this? Or must we tolerate a loss of 10+* passenger spaces per train for the rest of the T1 lifespan, long may it be?
* possibly more, depending on whether the Greenwood yard workers bother taking down the barriers in the non leading cars. They seem to do that now, they didn't for much of the last year
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Plexiglass would actually do something, unlike this garbage. Anyone who actually believes this does anything at all to protect the employees is delusional. So of course it comes as no surprise that the worse than useless TTC management has chosen this particular course of action.I bet they would wall it off with plexiglass if violence gets worst in the subway or if an employee gets attacked more often.
It wasn't the Commission or management that proposed this. And in fact, the Commission has tried to do away with it.Plexiglass would actually do something, unlike this garbage. Anyone who actually believes this does anything at all to protect the employees is delusional. So of course it comes as no surprise that the worse than useless TTC management has chosen this particular course of action.
All they needed to do was put up plexiglass that would be flush with the cab door when it is locked open, and it would thus become, effectively, a full width cab. There is zero reason to block off the second row of seats too.
It wasn't the Commission or management that proposed this. And in fact, the Commission has tried to do away with it.
Dan