APTA-2048
Senior Member
Kind of a shame about the Cedarvale signage. The stainless steel looks much more refined. Obviously this was done on the cheap.
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A 6264
Active Member
Oddly enough, it's very common for to hear bus passengers ask bus drivers questions about how to get to where they're going, rather than using tech to look it up, or sometimes they ask other passengers.
The way it often goes, is they ask their question awkwardly, the bus driver says, "well where are you trying to get to, exactly?", and the passenger goes off on a ramble about other things. I think they get that from watching politicians being asked questions on TV. Then when the driver tells them they're going in the wrong direction, and what they should do, the passenger gives them a funny look, like the driver must not know what he's talking about.
A 6264
Active Member
Not so much cheap in cost, but cheap in appearance. Elegance is not trendy, I guess.
Monarch Butterfly
Superstar
At least it is not gold paint.
youngblood
Active Member
I’m speculating that we should have a date for line 5 by Dec 7 (or whenever line 6 opens). We all know the first question going to be asked of the politico at the line 6 opening ceremony will be and I would assume at that point they’d have some prepared remarks other than “there’s still a chance this year”
pleaseLRT
New Member
Metrolinx Board Docs for its Thu, Nov 27 board meeting were released and quickly taken down, however @Sauga89 was able to capture them before their deletion. Here are 2 things I found interesting re: Line 5
#1 - Still in RSD. Hasn't been handed to the TTC yet for final preparations
#2 - ZERO mention of Line 5's progress in this slide deck. Makes me think that MX themselves have no idea when this will be done (also congrats on Line 6 for opening on Dec 7)
#1 - Still in RSD. Hasn't been handed to the TTC yet for final preparations
#2 - ZERO mention of Line 5's progress in this slide deck. Makes me think that MX themselves have no idea when this will be done (also congrats on Line 6 for opening on Dec 7)
hw621
Senior Member
to something like "not a chance this year"?
youngblood
Active Member
At least that's a definitive statement by them
WillTo
Senior Member
nfitz
Superstar
Often, the driver knows very little about the neighbourhood they are driving in. Why they stand at the stops, with other people, and instead want to ask the driver, who may well live in Milton, I don't know. Especially when it's about which other bus to take to get where ...
A 6264
Active Member
You and I are talking about different things, I think. Consider this (imaginary) example: Someone gets on bus 34 Eglinton eastbound at Mt. Pleasant, the bus is travelling from Eglinton to Kenneday stations, and the passenger asks, "Does this bus go to the subway?" The answer is yes, eventually, but it's likely the passenger is trying to get to Eglinton station, and is going the wrong way. When the driver asks, which station, or which direction will they be going when they get to a station, the passenger just says, "I want the subway". If the driver advises the passenger should be going in the other direction to get to the nearest station, the passenger may still be confused, and give up, staying on the bus that's taking them the wrong way. I'm not making fun of people or being dismissive, I just think it's sad that I've seen this happen so often. As for asking other passengers instead of TTC personnel, I see that happen too, with the same results. I do agree that if the passenger is asking about something else entirely, like how to get to a local business, another passenger might know better than a driver, but then again, the reverse is just as likely, in my experience both as an observer, and as one who occasionally needs to ask directions myself.
A 6264
Active Member
Please, let's not be giving sections of the same station different names. You'll have people asking which train will take them from Cedarvale to Eglinton West. (But I'm being a hypocrite because I like the Yonge and Bloor platforms having different names, and I hope the TTC never changes them.)
nfitz
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Steve X
Senior Member
Not only it’s cheap. There are near impossible to read in the dark. They have gone this route on many signage throughout the system by replacing backlit signs with a mostly black wooden board. If they want to do this, they should install lights to shine on it.
nfitz
Superstar
No, pretty much the same thing. Though more often a street (though you see all things). Meanwhile there's a dozen of people at the stop, who'd mostly be able to give (often better) help; and certainly less rushed help ... with it easy to point to the stop they might need.
Though why not put the destination (or next) station on the sign? Oh well, I suppose at least they but bus numbers on most of the signs now.
At least Eglinton line won't have this problem at the surface stops. Assuming that the signage hasn't changed since when this one was taken, over 5 years ago.
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