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For those interested - articulated buses provided by Nova Bus will be coming to Toronto.

For those interested, traffic has switched over to the newly constructed roadway under the Stouffville line on Sheppard Avenue.

1) Steve Munro has a good comparison chart. http://stevemunro.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/LRV-Fact-Sheet.pdf 2) Every streetcar will be the 5-section car. (well, other than the historical fleet) 3) PRESTO, fare machine onboard the streetcar, plus fare machines at the more popular streetside...

The award is scheduled for July 3rd, 2012. Ref: http://www3.ttc.ca/TTC_Business/Materials_and_procurement/Tender_Responses.jsp

Streetscaping is a major portion of the plan and it includes quite a bit of street furniture along the stretch of the rapidway. Most of it will be lined with trees, wide boulevards, and ambient lighting.

The latest train in revenue service is the 547 set. There are eight sets in service - 540, 541, 542, 543, 544, 545 ,546 and 547. 8 is still testing. Regardless, I rode 547 this morning as well. AA was kinda weird in that it thought Finch was Downsview. At North York Centre, it realized the...

Fresh off the press: http://www.thestar.com/news/transportation/article/1083007--ford-s-subway-to-crawl-stop-by-stop?bn=1 How I wish transit planning isn't based on political agendas...

The bricks were taken out of the station because of some drainage issues and platform height issues, and was repaved with black asphalt (they were unhappy with the red pigment, so they went with black). What happened was that when the ground was wet, the bricks became easier to move around - and...

ECLRT now has a nice little website: http://www.thecrosstown.ca

Yeah. It'll cut through H2-VMC, and the routing west of VMC is unknown - but a 60ft bay is being placed at 407 Station for Purple. I think it's dumb too, but Service planning has another few years to sort it out.

For those that don't already know, YRT's new website is up.

No guarantees. Last I heard Purple was going to be redirected to 407 Station, but this is from February. Service planning isn't giving straight answers.

That's irrelevant. I see where you're going with this, but the older subway cars were put onto flat train cars (terminology? flatbeds?) and transported. There was a photo on Transit Toronto but I can't find it right now. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

It's another service set. 5421-5426 is the second set in service.

This is the absolutely most disgusting thing the Ford bros can do to transit (even though I think they'd be capable of screwing us even more). Scrapping Transit City? Okay, we have a medium solution - albeit stupid - but now getting rid of higher-capacity vehicles just because they're in the...