TTC: Flexity Streetcars Testing & Delivery (Bombardier)

[Johnny Au]

Bombardier's layoffs have ended, and hired 50 additional new workers. See link.

Now Bombardier can expedite the manufacture of Flexity Outlook light rail vehicles to avoid paying a penalty to the TTC.

 

[the lemur]

Judging by press releases, the official, Bombardier Approved pluralization is:

"BOMBARDIER FLEXITY light rail vehicles"

I work at BlackBerry, and have seen the kind of internal documents that always remind us to never pluralize "BlackBerry" itself. And also to always capitalize that second B. We don't sell "Blackberrys" or "blackberries"; we sell "BlackBerry Smartphones"

That's one of those bits of corporate wishful thinking and mild control-freakery that never works out in the real world, like Adobe asking that people not use 'photoshop' as a verb, or Xerox saying their brand name shouldn't be used as a synonym for 'copy' because their machines do other stuff as well.

 

[the lemur]

Flexity light rail vehicles can be translated into various Romance languages. Note that Flexity in Latin is "Flexitas" in its nominative form, "Flexitatis" in its genitive form, etc. See here: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-itas

Note that Flexity ends in -ity, which corresponds to the forms of -itas in Latin and their equivalent forms in Latin's descendents, such as French -ité, Spanish -idad, etc.

Flexity would be flexitas in Latin, if it were a word rather than a brand name, but brand names generally don't get translated except for reasons of comprehensibility and/or cultural difference.

 

[Markster]

like Adobe asking that people not use 'photoshop' as a verb

I love that one. They ask for
"enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software"
in place of
"photoshopped"

 

[W. K. Lis]

I love that one. They ask for
"enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software"
in place of
"photoshopped"

I'll cry into my Kleenex, if I didn't need a couple of Aspirin to go with it.

 

[johntauren]

4407 is now here...and graffiti covered
http://i.imgur.com/kwI88I5.jpg

Courtesy of reddit

 

[the lemur]

4407 is now here...and graffiti covered
http://i.imgur.com/kwI88I5.jpg

Noooo ... that looks fairly close to Hillcrest. Did they leave it out on the tracks overnight or something?

 

[grey]

It's not even good.

 

[TOareaFan]

4404 was doing some training on King Street yesterday afternoon....had one of those "that puts it in perspective moments"

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With its nose at University, it stretched the entire length (width?) of "the Wave" building (100 University Ave.) to Emily Str. That means with its nose at the University stop...its tail was 73 metres from the Simcoe stop! I honestly don't remember but was it decided that one of these stops would be eliminated?

 

[crs1026]

So, if it's a gaggle of geese, and a pride of lions, what is the plural noun for these beasts?

A Ford of Flexities gets my vote

- Paul

 

[nfitz]

That means with its nose at the University stop...its tail was 73 metres from the Simcoe stop!

I'm measuring 68 metres in Google maps ... so that sounds about right.

I honestly don't remember but was it decided that one of these stops would be eliminated?

Looking back at the May 2014 report both the Simcoe and York stops (both sides) were recommended for removal, along with the westbound Victoria stop. And the board passed this without any modifications for those stops.

 

[TOareaFan]

I'm measuring 68 metres in Google maps ... so that sounds about right.

Looking back at the May 2014 report both the Simcoe and York stops (both sides) were recommended for removal, along with the westbound Victoria stop. And the board passed this without any modifications for those stops.

thanks......as I said back then, I would have left the Simcoe stops in and removed the University stops but that is just minor...as long as one of the two is removed.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Looks like this new streetcar may take a little extra time before it rolls on the streets.

 

[CapitalSeven]

Flexity would be flexitas in Latin, if it were a word rather than a brand name, but brand names generally don't get translated except for reasons of comprehensibility and/or cultural difference.

That would make the ablative plural flexitatibus, which would compound the confusion.

 

[ehlow]

^ it still looks damn good! Great photo too, with the wires & electrical equipment above it.