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GO Transit: Service thread (including extensions)

turbanplanner said:
I actually started driving to a previous job after three TTC service suspensions in a week during rush hour. It's not only because of that but it was the last straw for me, passengers playing music out loud on every single trip, junkies smoking crack on the platform, and having to stand the whole way were the contributing factors but having to wait in the cold for several shuttle busses to pass got me to stop riding for work.
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I have never seen someone smoking crack in my life yet alone on a subway platform. You have some eventful commuting stories to tell.
 
sixrings said:
I have never seen someone smoking crack in my life yet alone on a subway platform. You have some eventful commuting stories to tell.
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You probably haven't seen people running around on the tracks which I've posted here. Old article but "At least half a dozen of the written complaints reviewed by CP24 for the week of March 24 pertained to people consuming drugs on TTC property, including one report for a male seen smoking what appeared to be crack cocaine on the subway."

www.cp24.com

Open drug use and reports of people in crisis: Rider complaints provide one-week snapshot of TTC

An ‘agitated’ man threatens to ‘shoot up the subway.’ Another accosts a woman inside a TTC elevator and repeatedly hits her with an empty wheelchair. A third attacks a group of girls on a bus after yelling at them to turn their music off.
www.cp24.com www.cp24.com
 
sixrings said:
I have never seen someone smoking crack in my life yet alone on a subway platform. You have some eventful commuting stories to tell.
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I’ve seen (and smelt it) on the 505 streetcar, and I’ve seen someone shooting up at Queen Station. I’m not blaming the TTC per se – the pandemic and housing crisis have certainly made these issues much more noticeable in Toronto and elsewhere – but it’s enough to turn some people off.
 
Me reading this thread after being away for a couple of days:
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"...Abecassis said. GO and Via Rail trains need to connect to CN’s servers to navigate safely in and out of Union Station."

This part is pure and utter BS. In CTC and the USRC interlocking which operates under the same pretense, trains are able to move from one block through to another strictly by their physical presence within a block. Whenever there is a train in a block, a length of track between signals, it triggers the track circuit and causes a block occupancy. This in turn downgrades the signals entering into that block to a "stop" which is how a physical separation is safetly maintained between each train. "Train connectivity to servers" has absolutely nothing to do with that part of the system.
 
SkylineHorizons said:
"...Abecassis said. GO and Via Rail trains need to connect to CN’s servers to navigate safely in and out of Union Station."

This part is pure and utter BS. In CTC and the USRC interlocking which operates under the same pretense, trains are able to move from one block through to another strictly by their physical presence within a block. Whenever there is a train in a block, a length of track between signals, it triggers the track circuit and causes a block occupancy. This in turn downgrades the signals entering into that block to a "stop" which is how a physical separation is safetly maintained between each train. "Train connectivity to servers" has absolutely nothing to do with that part of the system.
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And even then, why would the USRC depend on CN equipment at all? It is and has always been dispatched by the Toronto Terminals Railway, not CN.
 
reaperexpress said:
And even then, why would the USRC depend on CN equipment at all? It is and has always been dispatched by the Toronto Terminals Railway, not CN.
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Very true, I suppose they were probably referring to the transition from the USRC to the other subs the coordination for which would have to go through servers to connect the broader network from the locally dispatched USRC. In the least it's worded poorly, has nothing to do with some wireless link to the trains(other than perhaps being used identify what specific train is occupying the block)and implied that trains weren't even able to get out of the station itself.
 
calimehtar said:
How is it that the entire GO and UP systems go down because of a CN issue when, according to Wikipedia, GO owns 80% of its tracks?
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GO uses CN'S RTC2 software for dispatching (except Richmond Hill line and Guelph sub). They probably had issues connecting to that. CN RTC Edmonton didn't have problems from what I've heard... however I couldn't access my CN employee portal
 
Metrolinx is stopping trains at danforth on a weekday on the 16th? Kinda weird
As far as I can recall this doesnt happen like ever? Weekends and nights are 1 thing, but Weekdays?
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The two railways will always need a common operational database for dispatching …. Every time a train crosses between cn and go territory, the rtcs need information about it that is too detailed to transfer verbally. It happens that the server equipment was historically owned by cn - although cn has since separated the go server(s) from its own, which is why cn trains continued to operate, GO has work in progress to acquire its own servers. Even so, down the road, cn will need to access the go servers in real time.

- Paul
 
generalcanada said:
Metrolinx is stopping trains at danforth on a weekday on the 16th? Kinda weird
As far as I can recall this doesnt happen like ever? Weekends and nights are 1 thing, but Weekdays?
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An interesting downstream effect of the WFH era, I think. A transit agency like GO can now take more liberties with service disruptions as they know most of their core customers have the flexibility to use work from home for the day.
Even if you are in a workplace where a Monday is a mandatory "everyone in the office" day, most managers would immediately say "oh yeah, just WFH for Monday," when shown this.

It's my suspicion that is the long term of WFH, that it really will contract back down to 4 to 4.5 days a week in the office and the WFH days will be mostly built around weather related events or construction events.

In the long term I think we'll see more events like this where Monday's or Fridays are tacked on to weekend closures to speed up projects.
 
generalcanada said:
Metrolinx is stopping trains at danforth on a weekday on the 16th? Kinda weird
As far as I can recall this doesnt happen like ever? Weekends and nights are 1 thing, but Weekdays?
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I wonder if someone mixed up which week Thanksgiving was - and didn't figure it out until it was too late ...

I don't seem to be finding this on their website (I must need copy ... too many places to look). What's the Stouffville train doing? Terminating at Kennedy? Or Danforth?
 
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