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It still skips Etobicoke North so it does technically meet the bare minimum definition of an express train!

If I look at a schedule dated "Effective 22 and 23 November" how am I supposed to know what the service is on the 22nd if some of the changes don't start until the 23rd? There is no separate page for the 22nd, and there is no asterisk on any of the trips saying they don't run on the 22nd. It's...

Yes the signal controllers can detect switch position if you connect them to the switch controller. For example the transit bars north-south on Spadina are called by the switch controller detecting a streetcar that wants to turn off of Spadina. However, connecting the switch controller to the...

You can't allow eastbound streetcars and westbound streetcars to proceed at the same time if they are both shown a white bar and there is a possibility of one of them turning left (or a bus turning left). The whole point of the white bar is to give priority to the direction seeing the transit...

But if it's starting from the 22nd why on earth would you write "& 23rd"? Of course it includes the 23rd, it includes every day after the 22nd! Specifying the "November 22 & 23" implies that it doesn't include days other than 22 & 23. I'm pretty confident that they're just normal schedules...

It's even worse than that. During busy periods there are THREE Route 30 buses connecting to one of the trains per hour, and ZERO buses connecting to the other! And there's a 70-minute gap from Bramalea to Kitchener (17:23 to 18:33) even though there are three buses per hour! At least the 12...

Train 66 was running 2 P42s and 7 LRC coaches today. Which is a shame since a 32-axle Venture set could have run that rotation instead, freeing up the LRCs and P42s to run shorter trains without speed restrictions.

It does seem like overkill. I think there's a good case for each platform to have at least 2 elevators (or an elevator + a ramp), so people can always exit/enter the platform despite an elevator failure. But it doesn't seem like too big of an issue to just have one elevator at each end of an...

You are not answering what you actually want them to change it to. It sounds like you want it to mean a different thing at every intersection in Toronto, and operators are just somehow supposed to know which direction it's referring to.

FYI Hamilton is not in Toronto. The meaning of a vertical transit bar in Toronto is always consistent. Left and right turn with priority, and no through movement.

Gormley, Langstaff, and Union already have Presto readers. All that's required is to give the ONR conductor a handheld Presto scanner. Presto is not suitable for trips north of Gormley anyway because it depends on a minimum balance to minimize the chance of a customer tapping in with...

It was before. So it would be a second or two slower per stop nowadays.

I did some dwell time studies during the CLRV to Flexity transitions and I found that the minimum dwell time is indeed longer on Flexities (about 18s vs about 11s for a CLRV), but the net increase per additional boarding/alighting was drastically less with the Flexities because they have more...

The Temagami Chamber of Commerce is not a public entity but they clearly have an interest in improving the visitor experience to Temagami. Hence why they operate the former station building as a Visitor Centre in the first place. There may be other businesses who occupy former train station...

How do you expect the TTC to solve the problem when they have no alternative way of showing a left turn arrow for transit vehicles only? Transit bar = fully protected left turn and right turn. Pedestrians conflict with left turn and right turn.

What's stopping this currently is that the transit bar does not indicate a through movement on the TTC. If you show a white bar, it means the streetcar can turn left or right but cannot go straight. Because we don't want to provide a regular green. It encourages drivers to illegally travel...

The whole point of this discussion is to allow white transit signals to be also used in situations where they cannot currently be used. For example on King Street to indicate a through movement for streetcars throughout the entire east-west green, avoiding the need to have confusing redundant...

I assume this email was in reference to converting the J-trains 50/60 and 52/62 to Venture sets, which they did subsequently try to do. It's also possible they were considering increasing the number of J-trains, in which case the number of trips between Toronto-Ottawa and Toronto-Montreal could...

"Just cycling them individually" is not a minor ask. Consider routes like King Street that have a streetcar every two minutes. Not allowing eastbound and westbound streetcars to proceed at the same time would create a huge amount of delay for streetcars.

It makes little economic sense to pay to operate a station building just as a station building (even when you include the 8 bus departures per day), but it can make sense if the building has additional public functions. See for example the historical station building in Temagami that the town...