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[TOtramz]

Sheppard started the simulated service at the beginning of September of 2002.


The new board period started on Sunday. That means that the refresher training started for some operators started on Sunday. And for some others, yesterday. And for still more, today.

Simulated service can't start until the first group of operators have finished their refreshers.

If somebody is supposed to come in Sunday but not Monday, do they have nonconsecutive days of training or is it consecutive?

 

[nfitz]

I'm really not following your angle, here... why do they need this flexibility to run a simulated service with no passengers?

I'm not seeing the unions killing anything. I'm seeing that it makes no sense to change the shifts someone works one week for no other reason than to allow some managers to Stand By And Sternly Observe for the first day. As I said in a previous post, they've already been running test trains for several years now, there's just going to be more of them. If an emergency should manifest, or if they are that nosy, then the suits can rush down there ad hoc. Otherwise there would be no service outside of the 9-5 hours at all.

I think we've beaten this horse to death.

My only point was that they'd be unlikely to have started trail operations last Sunday. Now that everyone has argued with me, I apologize for being wrong.

Perhaps we can change the subject, and someone can post some photos of these trial operations everyone is foaming about?

 

[JBR]

Is this forum board for Crosstown updates or for TTC operator sign-up discussions…..

 

[T3G]

Is this forum board for Crosstown updates or for TTC operator sign-up discussions…..

If you read the discussion, you would realize it's a discussion about TTC operator sign ups FOR the Crosstown.

 

[TOtramz]

Perhaps we can change the subject, and someone can post some photos of these trial operations everyone is foaming about?

Absolutely, I second this!

 

[JBR]

If you read the discussion, you would realize it's a discussion about TTC operator sign ups FOR the Crosstown.

Ya from people that don’t understand how TTC sign ups work

 

[JBR]

Sheppard started the simulated service at the beginning of September of 2002.


The new board period started on Sunday. That means that the refresher training started for some operators started on Sunday. And for some others, yesterday. And for still more, today.

Simulated service can't start until the first group of operators have finished their refreshers.


Except that makes no sense. If I signed work for Tuesday to Saturday, why are you penalizing me by making me come in on days that I specifically signed to have off? What are you going to do with the people who signed for work on Sundays? Are they just going to be sitting and twiddling their thumbs for 8+ hours? How about the people who are scheduled for later in the day on Mondays?

Perhaps this is why it's best that you leave the planning of shifts to the experts.

Dan

I agree with you

Imagine signing Wednesday Thursday off for family/home reasons (or for whatever reason really) and then being forced to work those days and have Saturday Sunday just because some people on UT said that’s better…..

 

[T3G]

Ya from people that don’t understand how TTC sign ups work

So instead of slamming a perfectly on topic discussion for being irrelevant, why don't you weigh in and correct the inaccuracies??

 

[GenerationLee]

I think we've beaten this horse to death.

My only point was that they'd be unlikely to have started trail operations last Sunday. Now that everyone has argued with me, I apologize for being wrong.

Perhaps we can change the subject, and someone can post some photos of these trial operations everyone is foaming about.

I saw two trains operating on Monday, one at day time, one closer to night (9 pmish) - this being in the Golden Mile area. It was nice to see, but the headlights are SUPER bright, it caught me off guard a little.

 

[JBR]

So instead of slamming a perfectly on topic discussion for being irrelevant, why don't you weigh in and correct the inaccuracies??

Nothing to weigh in on. TTC sign ups have been occurring like this for decades, it’s not going to change for a tiny division.

 

[crs1026]

I saw two trains operating on Monday, one at day time, one closer to night (9 pmish) - this being in the Golden Mile area. It was nice to see, but the headlights are SUPER bright, it caught me off guard a little.

On a drive across Eglinton East this morning, I counted seven tramsets out on the line.

They are among us.

- Paul

 

[KevinT]

Sure Waterloo Region's LRT was delayed however it was almost entirely due to Bombardier's incompetence on delivering trains on time. Construction was completed in 2017 which was when the line was intended to open, it opened in 2019 purely because Bombardier couldn't get them trains.

That wasn't all Bombardier. My recollection is that for a time they held their deliveries waiting for the Automatic Train Protection equipment to arrive for installation, but the problem was that there wasn't any. The region's plan was to use what the Crosstown used, but the Crosstown hadn't selected it yet. In the end most of the region's trains were delivered without ATP equipment, while the region scrambled to select and source their own. Ultimately most ION trains had their ATP installed in situ at the Operations, Maintenance and Storage Facility. The region never blamed the province directly, you don't bite the hand that feeds you, but the story was there if you read all the articles and connected the dots. Publicly the province was happy to scapegoat Bombardier rather than implicate Metrolinx.

The ION system opened without ATP enabled while debugging continued, it wasn't switched on until a few months later. That's when the mysterious crawls southbound near the end of Waterloo Park and approaching Hayward began, which have never been resolved. My guess (purely a guess!) is that the crawls are related to the signal blocking, and won't change until the track signalling can be physically reconfigured once the initial contract is up and a new one negotiated. ION's ATP doesn't use RFID baluns between the rails for positioning like you see elsewhere, it uses the track signalling.

 

[Monarch Butterfly]

The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) estimates that 110 operators will be needed for the Eglinton Crosstown LRT (Line 5), including 95 for regular operations and extra staff for vacations and backfill.

For Metrolinx, 118 people with vice president in their title appeared on the 2024 Sunshine list.

 

[KevinT]

In general I'd say that the sunshine list is BS because it hasn't been indexed to inflation since its creation, but the fact it reveals that 118 people at a single business entity are considered a VP is both damning and ridiculous.

 

[Coolibop]

In general I'd say that the sunshine list is BS because it hasn't been indexed to inflation since its creation, but the fact it reveals that 118 people at a single business entity are considered a VP is both damning and ridiculous.

+ Hidden are many of the government employees hired on (ongoing/never ending) contract. Doctors for example are typically self employed contractors and won't show up on the list, even though they are mostly paid by the government and can only be seen though the expense side of the ledger, often hidden.