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Toronto Eglinton Line 5 | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

Having service starting at 7:08 am is too late for most riders trying to get to work and assuming it is in testing stage. Service will be the same as the subway, but in a position of being 7/24/365 since it can use one track while work is being done on the other. To me, its a step in the right direction for service starting in the fall.
 
I really don’t know what is wrong with ML’s priorities. This is not a shop. They don’t need a big screen for operating hours. They can just slap a poster on the wall for those who want to know.

We all know the time is a rest. No way they are just ending service in the afternoon.

a sign isn’t a good way to tell if revenue demonstration has begun. Seeing trains running at times matching the current subway network is a good indicator. Currently I believe they are still running at selected times.
 
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I am quite confident that they have not posted the end service schedule. Either they are using dummy data, which may be created specifically so they can verify that data points are passing and displaying accurately….. or (my theory) they are posting the schedule of whatever training runs are being run that day, so that the setup tests not only the data display but may track against actual tram movements over the day. So it’s a “live” system but reflecting that trams are only on line for one eight hour window. Just a guess.

- Paul
 
crs1026 said:
I am quite confident that they have not posted the end service schedule. Either they are using dummy data, which may be created specifically so they can verify that data points are passing and displaying accurately….. or (my theory) they are posting the schedule of whatever training runs are being run that day, so that the setup tests not only the data display but may track against actual tram movements over the day. So it’s a “live” system but reflecting that trams are only on line for one eight hour window. Just a guess.

- Paul
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Workplaces love a task that literally works for basically everybody who’s involved. It’s also too specific to be dummy data imo. This is probably really convenient for a lot of workers to see.
 
Steve X said:
I really don’t know what is wrong with ML’s priorities. This is not a shop. They don’t need a big screen for operating hours. They can just slap a poster on the wall for those who want to know.
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The TTC has its own printing shop, and has for a long time because signage changes so often. I welcome them using digital signage wherever possible (as long as funding exists to maintain it).

Steve X said:
We all know the time is a rest. No way they are just ending service in the afternoon.
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It's likely just placeholder information anyway.
 
hopefully this can ease some of the more distraught members minds a bit. I live across the street from a station and was waiting for a bus yesterday, when I saw a Crosslinx worker exiting the station. I asked him when is it supposed to open and he said he heard September. So following Metrolinks 3 month rule, we should hear about the opening date in June.
 
SkyScraaaper said:
hopefully this can ease some of the more distraught members minds a bit. I live across the street from a station and was waiting for a bus yesterday, when I saw a Crosslinx worker exiting the station. I asked him when is it supposed to open and he said he heard September. So following Metrolinks 3 month rule, we should hear about the opening date in June.
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Will be waiting for black or white smoke from the Metrolinx chapel (boardroom) by the start of June...
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unrealestate said:
Notre Dame Cathedral, La Sagrada Familla, The Great Pyramid of Giza, The Crosstown LRT. Amazing human achievements
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The Eglinton line costs more than each of those.

EDIT: It probably costs more than all three combined (adjusted for inflation) but who knows how much the Great Pyramid of Giza costed.
 
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TOtramz said:
Well that definetely confirms that revenue service demonstration has not begun yet.....

No way those are the revenue service hours! 😱
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If recent Ottawa projects are any example (not sure if the did this in KW) there was a big ramp up in testing before the actual revenue service demonstration. They don't want to fail the demo, as it affects the contract,so the "dress rehearsal of the dress rehearsal" runs for a while. But it's a good sign anyway.

Our similar digital signs showed a variety of different things during that period, but the final version was only near the very end of testing
 
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