Toronto Crosstown LRT | ?m | ?s | Metrolinx | Arcadis

[Therion]

I use GoogleMaps on my Android Auto regularly, but always back-check with reality. If something doesn't make sense, I rely on my intuition. It has saved my ass many times. It tends to pick the easiest route, even through heavy traffic, and sometimes one-way streets are not programmed correctly. You can't just follow nav blindly.

 

[pman]

I find Waze is usually pretty good.

 

[sixrings]

A lot of GPS talk. We get it. GPS isn't perfect. Yet some humans are too lazy to think for themselves and may kill themselves following wrong directions. Natural selection I am ok with. Maybe someone can buy onecity a GPS.

 

[hw621]

How many more pages of GPS talks? I will be back when there is actual crosstown news.

 

[Neutrino]

^Will the Crosstown have GPS?

 

[W. K. Lis]

^Will the Crosstown have GPS?

Hopefully, the GPS on the Crosstown light rail vehicles will have the bugs worked out. The legacy streetcars GPS initialled showed some of them being in the middle of Lake Ontario.

 

[Steve X]

^Will the Crosstown have GPS?

GPS isn't going to work in tunnels

 

[Leo_Chan]

GPS isn't going to work in tunnels

What about sending ATO signals appearing as GPS?

 

[Steve X]

What about sending ATO signals appearing as GPS?

What is the point of that? If the TTC is going to tell you where their trains are, they would have done it on the existing subway. It would be nice on an interactive map but I have doubts it will happen.

 

[Streety McCarface]

A lot of GPS talk. We get it. GPS isn't perfect. Yet some humans are too lazy to think for themselves and may kill themselves following wrong directions. Natural selection I am ok with. Maybe someone can buy onecity a GPS.

That's low, even for you.

 

[sixrings]

That's low, even for you.

I miss our good banter before OneCity blocked me.

 

[raptor]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1158757628505481216

 

[robmausser]

What is the point of that? If the TTC is going to tell you where their trains are, they would have done it on the existing subway. It would be nice on an interactive map but I have doubts it will happen.

They already do. The Transit app has live update of where the subway trains are, as well as this map

TRAVIC - Transit Visualization Client

tracker.geops.ch

 

[Leo_Chan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1158757628505481216

It's probably just an oversight in the diagram, but it shows Kennedy as a stop and not a station. Also, how is Mount Dennis not a station, as it's fully enclosed?

 

[Steve X]

They already do. The Transit app has live update of where the subway trains are, as well as this map

TRAVIC - Transit Visualization Client

tracker.geops.ch

I believe any live map positions (e.g. Transsee) are based on TTC feeds of the estimated arrival time at each station. I am not aware they actually feed the actually position they see in CIS to the pubic.

The map you quoted is definitely not a live map. It's too perfect. It does state the data is based on schedule and if you compare it to the NextBus map, you can see it's definitely off.