Metrolinx: Other Items (catch all)

[TRONto]

IIRC I saw this at Queen and Broadview ?

 

[SaugeenJunction]

Something Metrolinx related, probably in Etobicoke/Mississauga. Lots of big names attending. ​

Minister of Transportation to Make a Virtual Announcement​

 

[Coolstar]

Something Metrolinx related, probably in Etobicoke/Mississauga. Lots of big names attending. ​

Minister of Transportation to Make a Virtual Announcement​

Probably a Dundas BRT update.

 

[44 North]

Line 2 to Sherway and Lakeview? Sorry just thinking outside the box.

 

[ARG1]

Line 2 to Sherway and Lakeview? Sorry just thinking outside the box.

Admittedly that would be awesome, but probably not, especially so soon after building the Kipling Transit Hub

 

[Richard White]

Line 2 to Sherway and Lakeview? Sorry just thinking outside the box.

Back in the 1980s we could have had an RT to Sherway from Kipling. That is why the one side is glassed off in the bus terminal.

 

[DSC]

Does TO360 allow the use of transit traffic signals, or is that still FORBIDDEN in Toronto?

From link.

This transit signal is currently the only one allowed (from the MTO Driver's Handbook)...

From link.

I too am in favour of using these international transit signals but why do you think TO360 has anything to do with this? TO360 is a wayfinding system.

 

[ARG1]

Back in the 1980s we could have had an RT to Sherway from Kipling. That is why the one side is glassed off in the bus terminal.

That RT would've went towards Pearson and York U, not Sherway...

 

[Richard White]

That RT would've went towards Pearson and York U, not Sherway...

You are correct. I confused it with a proposed extension of Line 2 into Mississauga.

 

[Northern Light]

I'm afraid the news is neither news, nor exciting.

Its just marking the completion of the Kipling Hub.

Ontario Newsroom

news.ontario.ca

 

[Amare]

Classy we got fooled, they pulled a Del Duca.

 

[W. K. Lis]

I too am in favour of using these international transit signals but why do you think TO360 has anything to do with this? TO360 is a wayfinding system.

If a motorist is trying to find their way around the city, they could confuse the "English signed" transit traffic signal we currently use with the motorist traffic signal.

From link.
Other parts of the world even use red and yellow ARROWS for turn signals, without having to use "English" verbage signs, which only adds to sign pollution.

We need to reduce the sign clutter pollution.

 

[Northern Light]

Classy we got fooled, they pulled a Del Duca.

A true Del Duca at a transit station requires a new 'Tim's Kiosk' I think. ' Is there one here? LOL

And in light of the story below..........then we would be no less fooled, but possibly more screwed!

Ontario woman says she choked on screw in Tim Hortons iced coffee and was only offered free lunch

An Ontario woman who says she choked on a screw found in a Tim Hortons' iced coffee believes the company's response to the incident has been a 'huge slap in the face.'

toronto.ctvnews.ca

 

[DSC]

If a motorist is trying to find their way around the city, they could confuse the "English signed" transit traffic signal we currently use with the motorist traffic signal.

From link.
Other parts of the world even use red and yellow ARROWS for turn signals, without having to use "English" verbage signs, which only adds to sign pollution.

We need to reduce the sign clutter pollution.

Yes, of course that is true but it is really NOTHING to do with T0360 which is wayfinding for pedestrians. See: https://www.toronto.ca/services-pay...ayfinding/about-the-to360-wayfinding-project/

 

[Amare]

A true Del Duca at a transit station requires a new 'Tim's Kiosk' I think. ' Is there one here? LOL

And in light of the story below..........then we would be no less fooled, but possibly more screwed!

Ontario woman says she choked on screw in Tim Hortons iced coffee and was only offered free lunch

An Ontario woman who says she choked on a screw found in a Tim Hortons' iced coffee believes the company's response to the incident has been a 'huge slap in the face.'

toronto.ctvnews.ca

I heard about this story a few days ago, and if I were her I would probably be suing the living daylights out of Tim Hortons for that.

But if it happened at a Del Duca photo-oped location, I would be 100x more likely to be suing the living daylights out of them just because Del Duca had some distant association with the location.

There's no Tim Horton's location at the Kipling Terminal though. Which is honestly surprising this project was in the pipeline during his time as Minister of Photo-Ops.