BMO
Senior Member
surely the TTC will fix this won't they?....i'm seriously asking the question
Before we start screaming at the City, are we really sure this was an accident and not planned?
It's pretty difficult to lay concrete and track like that. I think if something were accidental, you'd see straight sections at odd angles trying to meet up, no? Was St.Clair ever a straight street to begin with? Maybe they were able to avoid grading the street by making that stretch bendy.
Before we start screaming at the City, are we really sure this was an accident and not planned?
It's pretty difficult to lay concrete and track like that. I think if something were accidental, you'd see straight sections at odd angles trying to meet up, no? Was St.Clair ever a straight street to begin with? Maybe they were able to avoid grading the street by making that stretch bendy.
Brad Ross’s official response to these photographs: “The track is perfectly fine.â€
I am fairly certain that this is infact a result of nothing more or less than:
SHEER INCOMPETENCE.
But as I and a couple others have asked, specifically how do you know that?
Do you just not like the look of squiggly tracks and assume they were assembled by a three year old or do you have some underlying expertise (or a reputable and expert source)?
I honestly don't know but none of the people who have sad the tracks are bad have provided any substantive reason beyond the fact they aren't straight. Does that automatically mean they are terrible?
Given the tracks are delivered in very straight sections, one must presumably try pretty hard to get them to bend in that manner (how? heat them up? brute force?) so likely the installers were very aware of what they were doing. The question: is what they did going to cause significant problems for operations?
Given the tracks are delivered in very straight sections, one must presumably try pretty hard to get them to bend in that manner (how? heat them up? brute force?)
Please, do correct me if I'm mistaken, but although I'm no streetcar expert I'm quite sure no streetcar/LRT vehicle in existence would be able to navigate that
Leverage. It's fairly easy to bend a long steel track due to the torque amplification provided by the long lever.