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

APTA-2048 said:
The line is currently down between Birchmount and Sloane. Trains were initially turning back at Lebovic, but my eastbound train got put out of service at Pharmacy. Then the next westbound train got held at Lebovic. I decided to wait since I had nowhere to be. Ended up waiting 1h 30m and then heading back west before my transfer expired.

The annoying thing was there were no announcements at the stations about what was happening. I’ve heard them make service interruption announcements on the surface before, but today there was nothing.
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Any insights on this switch issue @smallspy ?
 
UntitledCyclist said:
And who would that be . . . ? Honest question as it's never clear to me with this Line 5 PPP situation.
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For the Eglinton line it's Crosslinx; the faceless consortium made up of ACS Dragados, Aecon, Ellis Don, and AtkinsRealis (formerly SNC-Lavalin).

It's quite the beautiful arrangement when something goes wrong with the line, as they can all just point fingers at one another. Then you get Metrolinx blaming the consortium, the consortium blaming Metrolinx, the TTC blaming Metrolinx, Metrolinx blaming the TTC, Metrolinx blaming the city, the city blaming Metrolinx......

You get the idea.
 
Allandale25 said:
Any insights on this switch issue @smallspy ?
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I don't unfortunately. It just seemed that it was an issue for two days in a row.

After the initial delays on Saturday they just had trains operate through the affected area in emergency mode. Not sure if they continued to do it yesterday or what the exact problem was.

Dan
 
I take the above-ground part of line 5 a few times per month. I was out this afternoon, and speed was terrible, though the trains were mostly empty. There was an average of up to 5 minutes between stations, sometimes closer to 10, and most of the time was spent standing. I don't know what happened to signal priority, but there was a long wait at each intersection preceding a station, and then again at the platform, even if there was no intersection after the platform. I think the trains were being held to space them out, but it was happening in both directions.

At Don Valley Station, a worker was sitting on a chair outside an info booth. I asked him if/when someone was going to connect the water fountain, which has had a piece of yellow police tape draped over it since the station opened. Not that it matters, as most people take bottles of water with them, I figure the fountain is mainly for kids, though it could be used to refill a bottle. He said, maybe next year.
 
A 6264 said:
I take the above-ground part of line 5 a few times per month. I was out this afternoon, and speed was terrible, though the trains were mostly empty. There was an average of up to 5 minutes between stations, sometimes closer to 10, and most of the time was spent standing. I don't know what happened to signal priority, but there was a long wait at each intersection preceding a station, and then again at the platform, even if there was no intersection after the platform. I think the trains were being held to space them out, but it was happening in both directions.

At Don Valley Station, a worker was sitting on a chair outside an info booth. I asked him if/when someone was going to connect the water fountain, which has had a piece of yellow police tape draped over it since the station opened. Not that it matters, as most people take bottles of water with them, I figure the fountain is mainly for kids, though it could be used to refill a bottle. He said, maybe next year.
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Something was up with the trains today. I was driving on Eglinton and was stopped at a light and saw a train approaching a green train light. It stopped at the light regardless, and the green left turn came on for the cars (which I thought was now supposed to be delayed to the end of the cycle?) and I saw the train still sitting at the intersection for quite a long time as i drove away.
 
I'm noticing a lot of inconsistent service on the line these days.
Just yesterday, I went down to my local stop at 3:30 pm. There was about 50 people on the platform, mostly school goers, and the train ETA was 3 minutes or so. I waited 10 minutes, and after that left, and walked to the subway.
Sure enough, upon getting the next subway car downtown, I was rubbing shoulder to shoulder with the exact same crowd who was waiting...

Seems like that must've been at least over 15 minutes to wait for a train, which is unacceptable. The screens outside suggest a 4-5 minute wait.

I believe this is the 7th time I've walked out of a station to go walk instead...it's making it very hard to trust the operations and the current P3 model that brought this line to fruition.
 
A 6264 said:
I take the above-ground part of line 5 a few times per month. I was out this afternoon, and speed was terrible, though the trains were mostly empty. There was an average of up to 5 minutes between stations, sometimes closer to 10, and most of the time was spent standing. I don't know what happened to signal priority, but there was a long wait at each intersection preceding a station, and then again at the platform, even if there was no intersection after the platform. I think the trains were being held to space them out, but it was happening in both directions.

At Don Valley Station, a worker was sitting on a chair outside an info booth. I asked him if/when someone was going to connect the water fountain, which has had a piece of yellow police tape draped over it since the station opened. Not that it matters, as most people take bottles of water with them, I figure the fountain is mainly for kids, though it could be used to refill a bottle. He said, maybe next year.
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The surface portion is absolutely awful. I could have walked from Pharmacy to Hakimi Lebovic faster than the streetcar. People on my train were commenting that they should have taken the bus as it passed us.
 
APTA-2048 said:
I wonder if that switch issue at Pharmacy I experienced last week is still unresolved and causing the delays.
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I don't think so. For the first time, I experienced the red signal at that switch hold the train for about a minute. When we started moving again the train speed was a maximum of 15km/h until Hakimi Lebovic. I wonder if this has anything to do with the maintenance work happening tonight.
 
Toronto1834 said:
I don't think so. For the first time, I experienced the red signal at that switch hold the train for about a minute. When we started moving again the train speed was a maximum of 15km/h until Hakimi Lebovic. I wonder if this has anything to do with the maintenance work happening tonight.
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Sounds like a slow order through that section.
 
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