Actually the report says that the rider hit the streetcar (or drove in front of it). Sad in either case.
Ironically enough, not French. That is what that article implies.
Based on the documents, it looks like as far as Cherry St is concerned, it will indeed operate as a sub-route overlapping with the existing 504 (Dundas W-Broadview) route; on the east end it'll run from Cherry Loop heading north to and west along King, on the west it runs "to Downtown". Note the difference vs. the existing route heading west "to Downtown and Dundas West Stn". Of course, nobody really thought they'd run it as far as Dundas West, but this is, as far as I know, the most information we've gotten in terms of an official plan for Cherry.
What remains to be seen is:
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- what "to Downtown" means; at a minimum it would follow the 503's Church-Wellington-York, could use Bathurst or Shaw in some fashion, or maybe go as far as Roncesvalles, but my money is definitely on Dufferin--it certainly seems to make the most sense, serving both the new development on Cherry and increasing service for Liberty Village adjacent to Dufferin Loop
- whether they still call this portion the 504 King, or assign a new route number and just have "504 Broadview/Dundas W" and "504 Cherry/Dufferin"
- similarly to the route number, I don't think they've said for sure whether or not this will be a 24-hour route/part of the 304 King blue-night service
- how much service is scheduled for Cherry-Dufferin (or wherever it runs to) vs Broadview-Dundas W
It would be a nightmare if they tried to blend service. Hopefully they do like 501 and 502, and just run two unrelated overlapping services. Otherwise services from Broadview to Sumach are going to be odd.I assumed that the 504 would just Y at Cherry. 2 out of 3 would continue to Broadview Stn and 1 out of 3 would go down Cherry St.
How would 501 short-turn at Cherry?- they don't have to build the Broadview & Queen streetcar loop (preliminary plans were for one in the parking lot just north of Broadview
Cherry doesn't intersect King; it changes to Sumach at Eastern. Hopefully the 150 metre walk from King to Queen down Sumach would be an official transfer point - it's shorter than a subway platform.I assume/hope the TTC will permit people to transfer from Cherry & King to Cherry and Queen.
The Star has this about todays' early morning crash of 3 streetcars: "The TTC is also investigating why three vehicles were in such close proximity shortly about 2:15 a.m. when traffic congestion is not an issue." I think we all know the answer to that question, poor line management and bunching, at 2.15am!
I assume the investigation will look into that.Were these vehicles in service, or were they out-of-service and going back to a yard/carhouse? If the latter, then I don't see why bunching or line management would be a concern.
When will the TTC implement the Line 1, Line 2, etc. signs at every station?
If the subway were to open early on Sundays, they wouldnt have a choice and they would have to do more full day weekend closures. That and there would be even more slow orders around the system, so people really have to pick their poison.re: the subway early opening on Sundays, I wonder if the thinking at TTC is moving towards more full day/weekend closures and trying to do less on Sunday mornings (especially if it might overrun anyway). Maybe they think with all the Union 2nd platform, Yonge tunnel rehabilitation and signalling closures that we're getting used to them anyway.
If the subway were to open early on Sundays, they wouldnt have a choice and they would have to do more full day weekend closures. That and there would be even more slow orders around the system, so people really have to pick their poison.
They've already said they are planning that - unless city council blocks the money for doing it.Yeah but 9AM? How about opening at least 8AM?