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According to this document, the wayfinding system on the Crosstown will slightly differ from Metrolinx's standard's as the Crosstown contract was signed before Metrolinx finalized their wayfinding standard in 2019. The main difference's would be the prominence of the TTC logo and also that the...

24 hours is going to be pretty rare nowadays. On average, you're more likely looking at 45-90 minutes (not to mention instant loading on mobile). It is very unlikely the reader's they are replacing on the TTC are the same ones they installed in 2015. Reader's, like everything on a vehicle...

Stop spacing every half a km for a major rapid transit lines is going overboard (imo). If Eglinton was being built to serve mostly local trips, like the Finch West LRT, than a stop every 500m is totally reasonable. However, the Crosstown would be acting as a major arterial transit corridor (like...

Metrolinx in their GO Expansion report noted that the narrow platforms are a constraining factor towards high frequency service as the current platforms cannot efficiently alight passengers. I will agree that the government should have had more foresight before constructing the platforms in the...

Good news is that the restored Kitchener trains will still make it to Union in 1 hour 43 minutes (about the same time as the previous express service). So they seemed to now have accounted for the upgraded Guelph section. Will be exciting to see how fast the the express trains can get to Union...

*Knock on wood* I think the Ontario Line should be fine since it's using catenary technology rather than the Innovia technology that's used in Scarborough. Ottawa's frankenstein half-LRT half-metro made it through January's snowstorm without incident.

Did anyone else pickup that Yorkdale's elevator opened? The TTC website says the station is now accessible. Strange that there was no formal announcement.

What reason would the LRV's have to stop at every station? Even on the Crosstown, there are stop request buttons on the Flexity's for the surface section (Flexity's stop at all underground stations). The general streetscape of Finch West is just as barren as Eglinton East so I wouldn't imagine...

Metrolinx did a rough experiment with the TYSSE under York U to see if those claims had any foundation: University lecture hall becomes testing lab for noise levels on Yonge North Subway Extension TLDR: TYSSE has a similar profile to what YNSE was supposed to be (20 metres/6 storeys below the...

Ah, thanks for the info. I just assumed this was something all intersections allowed. As for the Crosstown, I guess we'll just have to wait a few months to see how fast the test trains can go on the at-grade section (and pray they're not unbearably slow). I'm just going to be happy construction...

For VIVA Orange/501 ZÜM at least, they activate the "transit-only" phase even when the bus is just going straight through (it seems like all intersections are capable of this, but I could be wrong). I have seen it in-action on multiple occasions west of VMC. Granted, I'm only out on Highway 7...

On the VIVA rapidways, typically, the Transit signal clears the bus (and only the bus) through the intersection before the left-turn phase kicks in. Of course, this only occurs if there is a bus at the intersection. I don't see how this cannot also be implemented on Eglinton given that even York...

The Eglinton Crosstown website says about 38 minutes from end to end. 26 minutes between Bloor-Yonge and Kennedy.

The reason the "Line 5" bullet doesn't appear on station exteriors is because, from Metrolinx's wayfinding standards, the approaches or entrances to stations are to only denote the mode of transports available at the station. This is a breakdown from their standards pdf on how passengers are to...

Oh, so it was worse than I thought it would be. Plus the map still shows the Major Mack VIVA stop at Yonge & Major Mack when that is clearly not the case. I think this just confirms everyone running the YRT have clearly never used the YRT.