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[smallspy]

But what got me, was Warden to Kennedy around late August.

The tunnel is so shallow through that section that there's always been signal.

Dan

 

[dowlingm]

The tunnel is so shallow through that section that there's always been signal.

Dan

I have travelled on Warden to Kennedy pretty frequently over the last few years and my Bell iPhones have always lost signal not long after entering the tunnel at the Warden end, and not getting it back until in Kennedy station

 

[kotsy]

I have travelled on Warden to Kennedy pretty frequently over the last few years and my Bell iPhones have always lost signal not long after entering the tunnel at the Warden end, and not getting it back until in Kennedy station

Freedom mobile?

 

[EastYorkTTCFan]

I have travelled on Warden to Kennedy pretty frequently over the last few years and my Bell iPhones have always lost signal not long after entering the tunnel at the Warden end, and not getting it back until in Kennedy station

I've always lost service using Pixel Phones with Koodo as well

 

[Richard White]

Same.

I've never had a cell signal down there.

 

[TDE]

The tunnel is so shallow through that section that there's always been signal.

Dan

I have travelled on Warden to Kennedy pretty frequently over the last few years and my Bell iPhones have always lost signal not long after entering the tunnel at the Warden end, and not getting it back until in Kennedy station

I've always lost service using Pixel Phones with Koodo as well

Same.

I've never had a cell signal down there.

After leaving Kennedy while in the middle of something, at least back in the day, it would require a 90-second pause until I came out of the portal approaching Warden. I'm with Fido (for better or worse).

 

[smallspy]

I have travelled on Warden to Kennedy pretty frequently over the last few years and my Bell iPhones have always lost signal not long after entering the tunnel at the Warden end, and not getting it back until in Kennedy station

I've used Rogers for 25 years - I've never not had signal along that stretch.

Dan

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

Woman dies after being pinned under TTC bus in Etobicoke, police say​

See https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/woman-dies-after-being-pinned-under-ttc-bus-in-etobicoke-police-say/article_3f2b65e2-7d3d-45d0-9fa8-5757621552e0.html

Toronto Transit Commission CEO Mandeep S. Lali said the TTC was “heartbroken” to learn that a pedestrian had died Monday after “a collision involving a TTC bus” near Royal York Station.

Subway trains on Line 2 Bloor-Danforth are bypassing Royal York Station.
TTC employees were redirecting riders away from the station and to nearby shuttle buses running along Bloor Street.

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The buses were detoured away from the Royal York Station. I was on the 76 Royal York South bus. Was able to use the 149 Etobicoke-Bloor bus instead of the subway to get to Jane Street. People were left behind waiting for a Line 2 Shuttle bus.

 

[turbanplanner]

why the hell was she walking at the far end of the bus paved area?

I get someone trying to shortcut to the sidewalk but you’d have to go out of your way to get to the point where the bus was stopped

 

[evandyk]

It sounds like she was chasing after the bus to try to get it to stop and open its doors? Maybe she slipped and fell at some awkward angle?

 

[Richard White]

It sounds like she was chasing after the bus to try to get it to stop and open its doors? Maybe she slipped and fell at some awkward angle?

It is very possible.

There used to be a woman with mental health issues at Warden Station who would run up and bang on the side of the bus as it was driving away. She thought it would get the driver to stop the bus, thereby letting her on.

There are also people who walk out via the bus bays rather than go all the way around. I will be the first to admit that I have done this at Broadview a few times getting off the 504. It is so much easier to walk out the bus bay there if you are heading to Shoppers than to go all the way back into the station and around.

 

[evandyk]

There are also people who walk out via the bus bays rather than go all the way around. I will be the first to admit that I have done this at Broadview a few times getting off the 504. It is so much easier to walk out the bus bay there if you are heading to Shoppers than to go all the way back into the station and around.

Except that in this case,

Toronto police said the woman was attempting to board a bus that was pulling away from the station when she fell and was struck.

 

[nfitz]

There are also people who walk out via the bus bays rather than go all the way around. I will be the first to admit that I have done this at Broadview a few times getting off the 504. It is so much easier to walk out the bus bay there if you are heading to Shoppers than to go all the way back into the station and around.

A bit different at Broadview though. It would take skill to get hit walking a very short distance from the platform to the Erindale sidewalk.

Where the sidewalk crosses the driveway is far longer - and probably more dangerous.

 

[Steve X]

Except that in this case,

This is exactly why people shouldn’t do that. Especially if they try banging at the back doors where nobody sees. Getting on the roadway is a big no-no.

Bus schedules are design that buses stop once. If everyone running for the bus gets the bus to stop again for them, buses are all late. Then they wonder why they are always late.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

This is exactly why people shouldn’t do that. Especially if they try banging at the back doors where nobody sees. Getting on the roadway is a big no-no.

Bus schedules are design that buses stop once. If everyone running for the bus gets the bus to stop again for them, buses are all late. Then they wonder why they are always late.

There are the odd case of drivers not following schedules but the level of riders aggressiveness with moving buses is something else. It doesn't help that banging works sometimes - which creates an incentive to continue to do it.

AoD