txlseries4
Active Member
Josh Colle just now has said, at a storm update with the mayor, that Line 5 will not first open up with full hours and instead will expand to a full opening when key metrics are hit.
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rbt
Senior Member
Hopefully the staircase at ET Seaton park operates with full hours.
thettctransitfanatic
Senior Member
This was already planned and it's the same situation as Line 6
PL1
Senior Member
Allandale25
Senior Member
Eglinton LRT question this morning from the media to the Minister and CEO Michael Lindsay at an unrelated GO announcement in Whitby. Time-marked link to the response.
Another question here:
Another question here:
Bojaxs
Senior Member
Sounds like they know the line is going to disappoint. They have little to no confidence in the line performing as intended. They're getting their excuses ready for the public and media.
They're going to lean hard on the "soft opening" narrative.
McGillicuddy
Active Member
"The new transit line opening five years late will have a shaky launch" is not an interesting take, and you don't need to reheat it every time a new piece of information about the line emerges.
Bojaxs
Senior Member
All you do is post one liner jabs at people you disagree with on this forum.
Feel free to share your "interesting takes" with the rest of us.
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McGillicuddy
Active Member
I feel like I give people the treatment they deserve.
Bojaxs
Senior Member
Funny, I feel the same way.
McGillicuddy
Active Member
Then perhaps next time you'll take the note.
Chaplinurbex
New Member
How about we just see what it's like when it opens?
generalcanada
Senior Member
oh look the 2020 date is being brought up again.
urbanclient
Active Member
I don't think slow speeds are as simple as blaming it all on Crosslinx like @smallspy is claiming: see the too many cooks in the kitchen analogy or the 3 spider-mans pointing at each other situation from the Finch thread.
Too many let their personal politics cloud their judgment to the point where they are almost saying:
X party is bad--->X party is involved in Y project--->X party is wholly to blame for this particular Y project problem. See screenshots:
You cannot pin the lack of TSP on Crosslinx. Especially when a Line 5 operator (formerly Line 1) is saying City Transportation Services and other City bureaucrats told them 'point blank' that they won't be prioritizing transit over left turning cars.
They are a reactionary who only wants to hear positive news about LRT projects. A cognitive shift is unlikely with deeply entrenched system justification bias.
They don't want to hear about problems, but they also have little interest in understanding the nuances required to solve them. See: them telling me to shut up when I pointed out the TTC Board confirmed end-to-end travel times of ≥50 minutes on December 10th.
They 'feel', not 'analyze' or 'reason critically'.
Same logic as the pervasive intellectually incurious hand-waving: 'do it like they do in Europe'.
I say this all, hoping that these LRTs reach their greatest potential from their current sorry state, whatever that potential may be. City Transportation Services needs to be gutted by offering early retirement to the luddite geezers opposing strong TSP. They are doing it for the federal public service, they can do it for the city.
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nfitz
Superstar
How the frig doesn't their contract with Metrolinx require them to operate to the average speeds and travel times that are in the planning documents (corrected for the lack of transit priority).
Hopefully those in the Eglinton consortium don't suffer from the ethical failings of those in the Finch consortium.