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Just because we're doing the flooding impacts here, I want to note a couple of things, not Transit related where people will find them.

1) Area around the Ontario Science Centre is flooded.

2) Large trees have fallen and are floating down current over the bike path, at speed. Should go w/o saying.......but steer clear of all ravine/low-lying areas, very dangerous.
 
Northern Light said:
Just because we're doing the flooding impacts here, I want to note a couple of things, not Transit related where people will find them.

1) Area around the Ontario Science Centre is flooded.

2) Large trees have fallen and are floating down current over the bike path, at speed. Should go w/o saying.......but steer clear of all ravine/low-lying areas, very dangerous.
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And - totally wrong thread for this - power is out in various parts of the city. I look forward to reading yet another report on our wet weather preparedness.

AoD
 
T3G said:
Why would GO and VIA have the same departure boards? If you're looking to catch a GO train, VIA departures are irrelevant to you, and vice versa. Merging the two makes about as much sense as showing GO buses on the train departure board.

The only thing that would be achieved by changing the current system is cluttering up the boards quicker, and seeing less departures that are further off in the future than you currently do. By all means let's have GO departure boards in the VIA area, and VIA departure boards in the GO area, but putting them on the same physical screen would be horrendous.
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I don't think it would be horrendous at all. It would be very useful for someone going from, say, Ottawa to Port Credit, a trip that would include both systems. As GO expands (and, optimistically, Via too), these types of mulit-agency trips are only going to get more common.

Most train stations I've used have screens for intercity and regional trains in the same area. Sometimes they're on the same physical screens like at Milan Central for example. And sometimes they're on separate screens next to each other. Union is the only station I know of where the screens for intercity, regional, and airport trains are completely separated from each other.
 
MisterF said:
I don't think it would be horrendous at all. It would be very useful for someone going from, say, Ottawa to Port Credit, a trip that would include both systems. As GO expands (and, optimistically, Via too), these types of mulit-agency trips are only going to get more common.

Most train stations I've used have screens for intercity and regional trains in the same area. Sometimes they're on the same physical screens like at Milan Central for example. And sometimes they're on separate screens next to each other. Union is the only station I know of where the screens for intercity, regional, and airport trains are completely separated from each other.
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Well, like I said, that's why there should be boards from both agencies in all parts of the station.

I don't think burying later GO departures to show closer VIA trains, or vice versa, is the answer. Keep them separate, but have signs for both systems.
 
MisterF said:
I don't think it would be horrendous at all. It would be very useful for someone going from, say, Ottawa to Port Credit, a trip that would include both systems. As GO expands (and, optimistically, Via too), these types of mulit-agency trips are only going to get more common.

Most train stations I've used have screens for intercity and regional trains in the same area. Sometimes they're on the same physical screens like at Milan Central for example. And sometimes they're on separate screens next to each other. Union is the only station I know of where the screens for intercity, regional, and airport trains are completely separated from each other.
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The VIA concourse already has GO Transit departure screens.

I don't think you gain much by combining them since VIA boards at only one spot in the station. If you're waiting in the York or Bay concourse, you very likely have no need for know VIA departures.
 
APTA-2048 said:
The VIA concourse already has GO Transit departure screens.

I don't think you gain much by combining them since VIA boards at only one spot in the station. If you're waiting in the York or Bay concourse, you very likely have no need for know VIA departures.
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Oh that's good to know, I hadn't noticed them before. We're slowly dismantling the silos between agencies.

I was just saying that it can be done either way - the same screens or separate. Putting them on the same screens can work just fine. The ones in Milan have 20 departures from multiple types of trains on a single screen and it's very easy to understand at a glance.
 
canarob said:
At least it might get rid of the awful smells for a day or two.
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I am happy to report the lower concourse now smells like sewage, and the upper one - BO. The former is flooded and you’d think wet-vac would be the way to go…but nope, mops! I wonder if they would get it cleaned up and sanitized by morning rush tomorrow - I am not hopeful based on what I saw.

AoD
 
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AlvinofDiaspar said:
I am happy to report the lower concourse now smells like sewage, and the upper one - BO. The former is flooded and you’d think wet-vac would be the way to go…but nope, mops! I wonder if they would get it cleaned up and sanitized by morning rush tomorrow - I am not hopeful based on what I saw.

AoD
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So instead of piss smell, it’s now mixed with even more poop smell…

So it did not get rid of the smells.
 
Bibi L said:
So instead of piss smell, it’s now mixed with even more poop smell…

So it did not get rid of the smells.
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It’s quite a bouquet - l’eau de toilette a la Toronto.

You know, mixed in with absent AC/ventilation and failing lighting and you have a distinctively “the city that does not work” feel to it all.

AoD
 
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