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Metrolinx Board Meeting June 27 2013

For nfitz and TOareaFan

http://stevemunro.ca/?p=8057#more-8057

GO’s target for the ratio of passengers to seats is that 80% of peak period trips should seat every passenger. With demand growing at 5% per annum, this is not possible and today only 2/3 of peak trains have seats for all riders. (It is unclear just what proportion of riders are standees as this is not what GO measures.) TTC riders who must suffer through overcrowding and reductions in service standards could only dream of such a generous policy. GO expects system ridership for 2013/14 to be 69.5m.

The big change for GO on June 29 was the move to half-hourly service all day, every day, on the Lake Shore line. This does not require any more equipment because it is an off-peak adjustment. We will have to wait until later in 2013 to see how much additional riding this generates by improving the convenience of GO rail service. There are not yet any plans for all day service on other corridors, and even when this is introduced, the frequency will not necessarily be as good as on the Lake Shore.
 
for instertnamehere, GenerationW and TJ O'Pootertoot

Yonge North Subway Extension / (Downtown) Relief Line / Regional Relief Operations Study / Fare & Service Integration Study

An updated BCA for the Yonge North project (a 2009 version is on the Metrolinx website) will be published for the September 10 Board meeting. This includes a staging option to build first to Steeles, later to Richmond Hill Centre. Although not mentioned in the Metrolinx report, this may help to address storage problems the TTC has with most of its fleet concentrated at Wilson Yard as one proposed storage option is a three track section running from Finch to Cummer Station. Whenever it is built, Steeles Station will shift the majority of the bus operations on Yonge Street away from Finch.
 
why the Hell are they wasting so much f***ing money on an underground train yard? just build one at Langstaff, and take away a bit of the sea of parking they have planned for that station. (not like it will be used anyways, most of the TTCs large parking lots sit half empty most of the time)
 
innsertnamehere said:
why the Hell are they wasting so much f***ing money on an underground train yard? just build one at Langstaff, and take away a bit of the sea of parking they have planned for that station. (not like it will be used anyways, most of the TTCs large parking lots sit half empty most of the time)
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It's Toronto, we do things the hard way.
 
Interesting how the 3km elevated UP spur line is coming in at just $138 million and yet SRT replacement at $2 billion or the same amount............cheaper than Sheppard LRT, Finch LRT, Spadina Ext, Eglinton LRT, and not even in the DRL ballpark.
 
ssiguy2 said:
Interesting how the 3km elevated UP spur line is coming in at just $138 million and yet SRT replacement at $2 billion or the same amount............cheaper than Sheppard LRT, Finch LRT, Spadina Ext, Eglinton LRT, and not even in the DRL ballpark.
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Well the UP spur is not being build down the middle of a street, it only has one small station and the structural supports are already there for it. The cost does not include vehicles, electrification or storage and maintenance yards.
 
The SRT replacement includes 2 underground stations, one of which includes platforms for both the SRT and the ECRLT (they are both included in the SRT price), and must be built while it is open for subway and GO service still. Then there is the Conlins Yard dumped into that price tag, as well as the fact that a large portion if the 3km section runs underground. Then you also have to reconstruct every station on the line to hold 90m long trains compared to the current 50m. Not including the fact that most of the concrete supports are reaching time for significant matinence which, like the gardiner, has been ignored for political reasons.

Plus you conviently use only the cost of the spur for the UP express, and use the cost of the entire project for the other.
 
Holy carp :

o 69% overall satisfaction with PRESTO
o 87% likelihood of continuing to use PRESTO
o 75% likely to recommend PRESTO
o 76% agree that PRESTO makes it easier to travel across transit systems

Meanwhile, Oyster gets 85-90% satisfaction ratings. Even the TTC overall rates much better! This program really must be a bit of a disaster, no?
 
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