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Sounds like a mistake to me. when you put your hand in an elevator door you delay no one. When you block a train door you can screw over hundreds.

Gee, I wonder if that may have something to do with the fact that the Hawkers are the only generation of subway cars to have been retired since 1999???????? Seriously, at what point in those years did you expect the opportunity to say no to Gloucesters or T1s?

Today I went out to Waterloo and got a chance to ride ION end to end. A few questions: 1) In one of the cars I rode, I was standing right next to the driver's cab, and it seemed that at every intersection, the driver pointed at various corners of the intersection, and whenever we made a right...

Why are you quoting my post in your previous post? So that I don't get the notification that you responded and you can feel like you have the last word? There are multiple parts to a subway car. If your subway car had a top speed of 5 km/h, then yes, having wide doors would not help. But that...

What do door widths have to do with headways? Wider doors mean that trains can be offloaded quicker and decreases the dwell times.

We also have a far bigger diversity of people doing the job now. It's all well and good to take chances with confronting asocial behaviour if you are built like a mountain, but if you happen to be smaller in stature, or elderly, it is foolish to gamble your safety like that. Keep your head down...

I don't know if one of them ended up surviving. If they did, it would be the first I've heard of it, and I certainly can't imagine what the point would have been of keeping only one, but I'm willing to be proven wrong. I think that this is a discuss we are having too late. There are no subway...

The difference is that most YRT buses are near empty outside of rush hour, while TTC buses are pretty packed almost all the time. There is no TTC route that has hourly waits, but YRT has enough. I don't see why we should expect regular employees to do anything. It's funny how all the greedy...

The reason why staff do it on other systems is probably because there are less people using transit out in the sticks, so the chances of running into someone who will shank you for speaking up about the fare is much less of a risk. Lots of the vile characters in the region are concentrated in...

I would be pretty careful with calls to expand police presence on the TTC. Without any kind of nuance or restraint you'll get situations like this in New York, where their useless governor straight up said that she does not care about statistics and all that matters is that people have the...

Would the money gained by the fear factor really offset the employment costs of all those fare inspectors, though? CTV says they have no less than 110 - that is not a small amount of people to employ. If the TTC is not recovering the costs of this, I question the wisdom of having any fare...

A missing piece of the fare evasion puzzle: have they changed the framework that collects the fines for fare evasion so that the money can be collected by the TTC, and not the city? Because if they haven't, I don't see why they should bother with any kind of enforcement at all, honestly.

I do not think a capacity discrepancy of 6000 is self evidently enough of a good idea to so off hand dismiss any concerns levelled against it. If the arguments for building transit that can carry less are so compelling, why must I go back through 500 pages of discussion?

Thanks. This seems to me like a problem. If the project is as essential as we have been lead to believe, if it is essential to provide another subway line into the core and relieve the Yonge line, leaving a capacity of 6000 people per hour on the table seems like a problem. What are we going to...

What is the thinking behind the 40 km speed limit? Who does it benefit if cars do 40 instead of 50 or 60 on a stroad? Speed limits like this would make sense downtown. I can't fathom the logic behind having this anywhere in the suburbs.

The only way to get a true picture of the capacity is to compare the hourly capacity on line 1 and line 2. Does anyone have those?

Where in the world are train doors as forgiving as elevator doors? This is a completely foreign concept to me.

I do not think that shoving one subway car out of the way, parked under the wide open sky, and that would create extra work to extricate, would make for a compelling example of preservation. As well, keeping only one car would mean that they'd be unable to move themselves under their own power...

The most recent news article inadvertently highlights how unworkable it actually is to name stations after neighbourhoods in this city. https://urbantoronto.ca/news/2024/07/menkes-maison-77-clarendon-topped-south-hill.56498 I do not consider myself to be geographically challenged, but I have...

I suspect this may be the driving argument behind not saving any subway cars, period (though the lack of preserved buses from that era tells me indifference to heritage is a significant factor as well). They are HUGE, they take up a lot of space. And there is no convenient place to display them...