Johnny Au
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Oakwood station on June 3, 2021:
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Monarch Butterfly
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Monarch Butterfly
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allengeorge
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Is there a method to how route numbers are determined? Specifically, these ones?
The most recent article I found was hilariously a BlogTO one: https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/11/whats_the_meaning_behind_ttc_route_numbers/
The most recent article I found was hilariously a BlogTO one: https://www.blogto.com/city/2015/11/whats_the_meaning_behind_ttc_route_numbers/
Richard White
Senior Member
500 for Streetcars,
900 for Rocket Express buses
00 - 150-ish for Local buses
400 for Community Buses
@smallspy Perhaps you can correct but if I am not mistaken there is still an internal number for the subway services which I believe is 600 something. IIRC that was the reason the 604 Harbourfront was renumbered as the 509.
smallspy
Senior Member
Subways haven't used internal numbers for quite some time. They are given the lowest in the sequence - 1 to 4, with 5 and 6 to be added soon.
In addition to the above, the high-100s were used - for a very short while - as routes that "extended" a base route but stayed entirely within Toronto, and the 200s were used for routes that "extended" a base route but travelled out of Toronto. For instance, 167 was used on the north end of Pharmacy, and 268 was the northern section of the 68 Warden route. This numbering scheme has fallen out of favour to a degree, although the TTC still does like to use the "+100" method of numbering if they split a route up.
Dan
Monarch Butterfly
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Never understood why Brampton with the 500 series of numbers for its Züm routes? They are certainly not streetcars in Brampton.
cplchanb
Senior Member
Because Brampton isn't ttc. There is no numbering standard set out by ML on how to call routes in the gta. They can use whatever number they want.
edit: YRT uses 6xx for the viva routes.... dont see any subways under hwy 7....
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Monarch Butterfly
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In New York City, they prefix the bus routes with:
Mnnn — Manhatten
Bnnn — Brooklyn
Bxnnn — Bronx
Qnnn — Queens
Snnn — Staten Island
Maybe the GTHA should as well. They can decide in a cage match on what prefix to use. Toronto has dibs on "T".
Mnnn — Manhatten
Bnnn — Brooklyn
Bxnnn — Bronx
Qnnn — Queens
Snnn — Staten Island
Maybe the GTHA should as well. They can decide in a cage match on what prefix to use. Toronto has dibs on "T".
drum118
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T/TOR = Toronto
MISS = Mississauga
BT = Brampton
YRT = YRT
DRT = DRT
OAK = Oakville
BUR = Burlington
HAM = Hamilton
MILT = Milton
cplchanb
Senior Member
should it be YR for York Region and DR for Durham Region then?
Coolstar
Senior Member
Makes sense if we actually had one regional transit agency covering the entire GTHA.
drum118
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That has been the goal since 2006 when ML was form
crs1026
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^Is this issue actually broken ? If it ain’t…..
IMHO this is the sort of higher-order angst that ML wastes far too much time and effort on. And it employs people who can talk about things but can’t actually manage anything.
- Paul
IMHO this is the sort of higher-order angst that ML wastes far too much time and effort on. And it employs people who can talk about things but can’t actually manage anything.
- Paul
drum118
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I use what I posted as that how everyone knows it today, but don't see an issue to your posting.